Rare Stanley No.221c Hammer Restoration

[@OldSneelock]

My grandmother Snyder. She had a stroke when I was a baby and though I saw her until I was 9 or 10 I never had a chance to speak to her. My great grandfather Nighswander. Died before I was born. Charlemagne. Holy Roman Emperor in 771 AD. That would be a conversation I would cherish. Gramma was six feet tall. Grew up farming. Raised five kids during the depression. Great Grampa was about five foot eight, but kicked down a 2" solid oak door and walked out of a nursing home to go home in his seventies. Charlemagne was a warrior king that ruled Western Europe. The stories would be epic.

[@Dardrum]

George Washington Carver, Leo da Vinci, And last but not least, the Construction superintendent of the Pyramids.

[@AndyM.]

You, Mr. Pete and 357 Magdad!

[@hokies1986]

You beat me to it!

[@richardmartinez5941]

Nice restoration John! George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and Sitting Bull.

[@nicknicoletti9778]

Great looking hammer. I live that style head. And the 3 people I’d love to have dinner with would be both of my grandfathers and Jonny Carson. Because… they were all hysterical. And I enjoy laughter.

[@robertharris2326]

My dad my mom and my brother. All that had passed on. Loved to have one more Christmas with the whole family.

[@greghomestead8366]

How about dinner with scoutcrafter, then a shop tour 👍. Nice looking hammer. Have a Jesus filled day Greg in Michigan

[@davidg.stuart383]

Excellent as always. Galileo, Nikola Tesla, and Carl Sagan. Just think how much you could learn!

[@paulsworkshop4179]

That hammer looks awesome with the green on the handle. You make me want a Dake! Keeping it strictly famous people and not family I miss, I think I’d like to sit with Leonardo DaVinci, Abraham Lincoln, and William Shakespeare.

[@chuckmays3857]

Very nice job on the hammer. I would like to go back in time and have dinner with: 1) My mother. She died when I was 2 and I never really got to know her. The one person I wish I could talk with the most. 2) George And Martha Washington. I have read the dinners they gave when they lived in Philadelphia was an experience and enjoyable. Who wouldn’t find that amazing? 3) Myself with my grade school lunch crowd to look back knowing what I know now and what WE viewed and saw of life in the late 1950’s.

[@ScoutCrafter]

Imagine how proud and happy she would be of you. Great picks! 😃👍

[@smithtown6589]

You remind me of my brother who used to ask questions like “what would you rather have… a spike nailed through your eye or your fingers sheared off” but not as severe as that. My three people: Isaac newton, Leonardo da Vinci, and Moses. Great job with the hammer!

[@bigvicsworkshop]

Beautiful restoration! Awesome hammer! Billy the Kid, John Wayne, Geronimo

[@rickcentore2801]

Great job John! My three choices would be Leonardo DaVinci, Abraham Lincoln, and Thomas Edison.

[@ddblairco]

Neil Armstrong, Galileo, and Wilber Wright. I would think the conversation these great men would have questioning each other would be very entertaining and interesting.

[@jaredmpp7633]

Steve irwin, Fred Roger's, Bob Ross. That was a beautiful looking hammer. Nice work!

[@stanellis7805]

Awesome hammer! My three picks would be my father who died in 1979, my mother who died in 2010 and my grandmother who died when I was a very young child. While many others would be fascinating, none would be as fulfilling as those. And, Bob’s Your Uncle! 😆 Thanks!!!

[@larrydemaar409]

I would like like to meet ScoutCrafter’s dad and take a ride and talk to him in his tanker truck, Audie Murphy, George S. Patton. The hammer turned out beautiful and I like the tips on the handle.

[@williamcarroll3807]

Nicely done on the hammer and great question. 1. Teddy Roosevelt 2. Alfred Smith, 3. John Roebling

[@davidcoats1037]

Great job on that cool old Stanley hammer! My three would be Jesus, Audie Murphy and George Washington.

[@johnmclaurin]

Winston Churchill , FDR, Thomas Jefferson….great video!

[@rawbacon]

You may call it a Simple Hammer Restoration but it's one of my favorites of all the ones you've done. Hang it on the wall, don't pack it away waiting for "The Big Move".

[@johnfix1]

Steve Allen did an amazing series of shows named "Meeting of Minds" in which actors played historical figures from different times conversing with one another like Attila the Hun, Cleopatra, Aristotle to name a few. He was a genius.

[@mrbenmall]

Man that is really a beautiful job on that hammer. My picks: Carl Sagan; Sidney Lumet; Bertrand Russell

[@noahlevy48]

the hammer turned out well, I liked the green. My three people would be Salvador Luria, famous microbiologist, Lincoln, and Albrecht Durer.

[@metrofarmer913]

My Dad worked for the electric utility and was really proud of the Bell tools he got from the phone guys. Especially some short scissors. Still have them. Thanks and cheers

[@JohnSmith-yl6dn]

I would like to talk with one of my ancestors from each war (there were many who served). Revolutionary, War of 1812 and the Civil War. It would also solve a lot of the family history mystery.

[@jill552]

I can’t believe I’m saying it, but, beautiful hammer. Nice mosh. 🇺🇸

[@lv_woodturner3899]

The hammer looks terrific. My list of 3 people changes with time. Today it would be a) Nicola Tesla b) Joseph Moxon, 18th century craftsman c) Leonard Bailey, inventor of many hand planes and eventually bought out by Stanley. Dave.

[@xlfive]

Over here in the UK,I'd love to talk to Robert Stevenson ,Isambard Brunel and Tim Berbers Lee without whom we wouldn't be here watching Scoutcrafter three times a week

[@essentialhandyman]

I chose IKB as well. A genius amongst geniuses!

[@timeflysintheshop]

Wow! You really knocked that one out of the park! Great job as usual and showing all the steps to reusing the old handle was great!

[@Chevyv8man1]

Hey John, Beautiful hammer. They just plain done make tools (and most other items) like they use to. No one has the time or pride to do it. My three to have dinner with would be my mother, father and brother. Last time I saw my father I was 11, my brother I was 12 and my mother was 40 years ago and I would love to have a 2nd chance with them all. Later

[@ron.v]

Great video! I was a Bell / AT&T employee but I don't recall seeing this hammer. Your first question, yeah, I'd like to know when I die. Might be interesting. The 3 people I'd pick are my 2 grandfathers and my 2nd-great-grandfather born in 1787. No need to pick Jesus. We're good friends. We chat several times a day.

[@corymcgrath5652]

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Captain James Cook and Dr, Frederick Banting. This list could go on and on. I need an Ouija board, a microphone and a weekly radio spot. History buffs would love it. Not possible, but a guy can imagine once in a while.

[@Ricopolico]

The photos you use to supplement your spIel, ALWAYS crack me up. I still crack up every time I see the Patina Guys. I'm like you, Tesla would be my FIRST invite, 2d would be da Vinci, now remember the other guests are dead, the 3d would be Y-O-U.

[@frankg3072]

The hammer came out great. I would like to have dinner with my two grandfathers who passed before I was born and Thomas Jefferson.

[@mardeeda]

What a hammer huh? Boy that satin finish you leave on there is beautiful or what huh? WOW Have to get. I love the tools bell decided to purchase. WOW

[@scroungasworkshop4663]

Just beautiful Scout, that was a really nice restoration and makes the newer Stanley look like a Chinese made hammer. My three people: my grandfather I never met, my other grandfather I only met once, he was the Regimental Sargent Major on Malta during the war and just one more good long chat with my dad who has been gone for 28 years. Meeting great people from the past would be interesting but not nearly as interesting to me as those that helped create and shape my life. Cheers Stuart 🇦🇺

[@ScoutCrafter]

Imagine all 4 of you at the table…. What a great thought. 😃👍

[@scroungasworkshop4663]

@@ScoutCrafter Thanks Scout, I’m sure they would have as many questions as me😂😂.

[@jackthompson2132]

That is one beautiful hammer and I really like what you did to the handle. My 3 pics are my mother, father and Jesus Christ.

[@lewiemcneely9143]

I LIKE the old hammer! My Stanley will NEVER be an Estwing. As to m y picks, I'd be the 4th guy with the trio of Jesus and the 2 guys on the Emmmaus road. I've ALWAYS wanted to hear THAT conversation. That'smy pick of the TOP. BLESSINGS and a Happy Craftscouter Week, Pal!

[@tonymaiettasr.7340]

Great looking hammer. Always love it when the Dake is used. My 3 are Beethoven, DaVinci, & Calvin Coolidge.

[@HickSquatch]

While I’m watching, I’m working an old Standard finish hammer over with a brass brush. My pick for three: Louis LaMour, Chris LeDoux and JRR Tolkien

[@jamesstanley9839]

Manny,Moe and Mack

[@vincentdoran1148]

Leonardo da Vinci, Theodore Roosevelt, Tesla. Great job on the hammer, I love the art deco look of tools from that time period. The profile view looks like a gangster's limo!

[@terryrogers1025]

My 3 people to have dinner with, Jesus, George Washington, and Theodore Roosevelt, (Teddy). Nice hammer restoration, again I learned something, Bell had their own tool specs, I will be watching the the flee markets and auctions for those tools. Thanks for the video sir.

[@ScoutCrafter]

Terry- You’re the first to mention Teddy Roosevelt, now that man was interesting!!! 😃👍

[@MartinPaulsen87]

I would like to have dinner with Adolf Hitler, James (Jim) Douglas Morrison and my grandfather. That hammer turned out amazing. You're really setting the bar with these restorations. Thanks for sharing yet another great episode!

[@garyjones2582]

Jesus, Tesla, and Einstein... Restoration turned out beautiful... Take care...

[@SwarthyPlinker]

That hammer is gorgeous. Love the green accent! Three historical figures I would like to have dinner with would be Dwight Eisenhower, Winston Churchill, and Abraham Lincoln.

[@melkc345]

Absolutely gorgeous hammer. Nikola Tesla, my father and Marie Curie. And I would like to have you as my dinner guest. Jim

[@mikebrunosgarage5338]

Love the channel and would like to give you my picks. DAVINCI,CARROLL SHELBY,AND ARISTOTLE

[@setdown2]

Nice hammer there crafterman ...you do have your way with the metals...three people...Eve...Socrates...Mom...🖖

[@davidpeterson5186]

I picked up one of those Stanley 221 hammers at an Estate Sale. I rehandled it and it is a beast for hard nailing jobs.

[@christopherlusk9385]

Super work once again. My three picks would be my great-great grandfather, my father who I didn't really know, and Larry Hale a professional hockey player.

[@majmarkbrown7816]

Wow nice looking hammer. Thanks for the great videos. I always watch your show to help me unwind right after work.

[@WeekendShedHead]

Fantastic Hammer scout👍Three people Winston Churchill, Andy Kaufman and Fred Dibnah (if you don’t know of him, he’s definitely worth checking out on KZbin ) a fascinating chap , cheers Rob

[@ScoutCrafter]

Rob- Fred Dibnah! Wow! SteepleJack!

[@essentialhandyman]

Dibnah is a great shout Rob. That dude had a pair of bollocks!

[@WeekendShedHead]

@@ScoutCrafter a real national treasure 👍

[@WeekendShedHead]

@@essentialhandyman 🤣👍he certainly did

[@joeheilm]

Da vinchi, neil armstrong, and the maniac that invented the parachute....what a loon 🤣. Great stuff! Cheers

[@robertlevine2152]

ScoutCrafter, Da Vinci, Einstein and Eleanor Roosevelt. Very nice hammer restoration. For the paint, I believe you should consider the olive drab green Bell used for painting their trucks and other equipment. For a Poll subject, "Should the Bell System have been broken up?" Bob

[@johnfix1]

Outstanding restoration on that Stanley hammer. My picks are Thomas Jefferson for politics, Elon Musk for business and Leonardo Da Vinci for genius in all fields.

[@roygilmore2968]

Johnny Cash, Van Gogh, my great grandfather Henry; he was a self taught carpenter. Would love to hear about his work on buildings in south Mississippi. Love the hammer; always such nice work.

[@Resto-Rob]

To pick 3 for dinner - any one man (a regular Joe) who worked building - Empire State Building, one of great pyramids, and the Light house of Alexandria. Bet they have some great stories.

[@hester781]

Beautiful job on that hammer! My 3 would be My grandfather- he was my idol Robin Williams- my all time favorite actor/comedian And Pharaoh Ramses II - there are just so many unanswered questions about ancient Egypt. The pyramids, their baffling yet astounding craftsmanship and architectural precision, the list goes on and on! I’ve always been fascinated with all the mystery

[@patrickmeyer1967]

I love the hammer!! I think dinner with Leonardo da Vinci, Vincent Van Gogh and George Rogers Clark would be most interesting.

[@ihrescue]

I have been thinking about this since the video dropped the other night. What a great question but tough for me to answer. There are so many interesting people I would like to talk to. So I delayed and then just decided, here are three of the many. Dale Carnegie, Theodore Roosevelt and William Zinsser. Interestingly these are all three very central to your city. I could definitely have an interest in collecting Bell System tools.

[@brianlittle3452]

I would like to have dinner with my Father-in-law and Mother-in-law. My Mother-in-law made wonderful meals but one of her best was her baked thin pork chops.

[@ScoutCrafter]

Brian- My grandmother used to put stuffing between two thin pork chops tie them together with string, and then cook them in the oven while constantly basting them. Unbelievable! 😃👍

[@TJB1510]

Leonardo da Vinci ~ George Washington ~ Buddy Rich

[@larryborkstrom3580]

Nice hammer the 3 I pick James Madison AL Capone Carol Shelby

[@johnspencer1145]

Great video thank you I use the slide hammer removing metal wedges also drill a hole n start the screw works great I sometimes change the screw in slide hammer to be thinner 👍🏻

[@stevef8993]

Funny coincidence, as an electrical engineer, Nikola Tesla was my first pick even before you mentioned yours. That hammer has some pretty thick claws.

[@Anonymous-it5jw]

Another great job, with excellent tips for your viewers. My question - Instead of doing the entire procedure of removing the head and adjusting the handle by cutting it slightly shorter and sanding it to fit the head, could you have expanded the wood inside the hammer head by soaking the hammer in anti-freeze or other glycol solution by placing it head-down in a shallow pan, so that just the head would be exposed to the solution. Theoretically, in a day or so this would cause the wood inside the head to swell up permanently and become tight again. Inquiring minds would like to know. As to the dinner, the first one would be with Ben Franklin, Nikolai Tesla, and Adam Grant, with alternates Steve Jobs, Henry Ford or Alfred Sloan, if any of the first three couldn't come. After that, I'd know enough to arrange more dinners with other interesting people.

[@stuartcozort3650]

Wow. You have challenged us all again. I’m scheduled to have a knee replacement on the 14th of Dec. I feel certain that your channel will bring me through

[@ScoutCrafter]

Stuart- It’s amazing how far they have come on those knee replacements. I know three people who had them within the last couple years and they had no recovery issues! All the best!

[@stuartcozort3650]

@@ScoutCrafter Thanks for the words of encouragement. I appreciate the fact that you took the time to write. I have several tools that I recently picked up that I’m going to try to clean up as user tools. Thanks again

[@stevenwitt4028]

Great video 👍Good information on how to save & restore the wood handle of that Stanley hammer 🔨. You made it look like N.O.S. ,Fantastic Job!👍I like that polished look on that hammer 🔨 and also like the little bit of color of green 🟢on the end of the handle, great choice. I thought for sure you would be going for some Red🔴😂😂. I would have to pick Thomas Edison, Benjamin Franklin to see what they think of how far we came with electricity and the creation of new ⚡️ electrical gadgets. I know Benjamin Franklin would probably be like a kid in the 🍭🍬🍫candy store because of his love with electricity ⚡️. I know it was three people but I would also have to choose my parents,just to ❤see them and have dinner 🍲 with them one more time.Well again great video and can’t wait to see what you do on Wednesday.😀👍👍

[@ElwoodFarmGoats]

Very good question that really made me think and other than family my 3 would be George Washington, Mozart and any of the Dalai Lama. That hammer looks really clean and that green gave it a nice pop of color.

[@MrJruta]

Your hammer restorations are among my favorite around Christmas. Not sure why lol

[@MsGamalier]

Red fox... Charles bronson ... Richard Pryor... would be very interesting

[@essentialhandyman]

Richard Pryer is a great shout!

[@lordvengerx]

That hammer came out super fantastic. I like the dark wood tone with the green. They really compliment one another really well. Far as the 3 people for me would be. Legendary directors Stanley Kubrick, Sam Peckinpah and famous composer Ennio Morricone. That would be one fantastic conversation I would never want to leave :D

[@ScoutCrafter]

A Film buff! Last night I rewatched Johnny Eager with Robert Taylor and Lana Turner. Great movie. 😃👍

[@lordvengerx]

@@ScoutCrafter oh yes that is a very good movie :D

[@colinfblair]

John Lennon, jimmy Hendrix and Bob Hope. Great job on the hammer 😊

[@justin_time4fun]

Hey John I would have to say whoever constructed the Pyramid of Khufu in Egypt. How the heck did they get those huge stones moved? Galileo who studied our universe and one of the early scientific minds. Lastly my grandfather who passed away suddenly that I didn’t have a chance to say goodbye too. Good question! Made me really think about who I would choose. Awesome job on the hammer! It’s amazing the pride and craftsmanship of the old Stanley vs. the newer one.

[@andyc972]

That's a great looking hammer, I have one quite similar to the one you compared it with but made in Sheffield UK I bought new in the early 1980s with an Ash handle, at the time it was my "best" carpentry hammer with my Steelmaster used for the everyday, I still like and use both although I have very many others today ! Stanley made some nice Hammers back then, not so sure now !

[@jacobb.]

Thomas Jefferson the 3rd president and main author of the constitution. Galileo the great astronomer. Jordan Peterson the Canadian psychologist. Thank you Scout. A great job on the hammer.

[@13thworker45]

Nice restoration, I would like to have one too. I always wanted to have dinner with President Ronald Reagan. The next one would be my late old friend Herb Bohse. He ran the engine room on the ww2 ships. The last would be my parents. I know you said 3 but rules can be bent a little. Herb was a furniture refinished when I met him. He could weld any metal to any metal. His brother also invented the hot water heater we enjoy in our autos. I still have his draft papers. One hell of a man. President Reagan always seemed to me to be a regular person that you could have a good conversation with. My parents shaped me into the person I am today. A lot of knowledge shared. The depression, skills, encouragement. My mom always taught me if you can’t get in done one way, keep coming at different angles until you get it. My father was a wood master. Today he would be119 . I’m 66 and I have a lot of questions I would like to know the answers to. Thank you for bring the memories back.

[@ScoutCrafter]

Jess- Great Picks there… 😃👍

[@stevenpressley5956]

Elvis,L.S.Starrett and Eddie Van Halen. That's my 3.

[@AaronBelknap]

I would like to have dinner with King Leonidas, General George Patton and the king during the pyramid building. Not sure who that is. Very nice hammer restore!

[@tomdale1313]

"SNOOP" saw him right from the get go, makes it easier to follow along...Marilyn Monroe, James Hoffa and Leonardo da Vinci, tanks for sharing (HOME SWEET HOME)

[@mnyshrpknvs]

Stellar job on the hammer! Can always count on you to do the job the way it should be done! Would love to have dinner with Nicola Tesla as well. John Moses Browning. Gilgamesh, ruler of the Sumarians(oldest known civilization).

[@bobuncle6962]

Damn...I would have to think longer than the length of this video. I'll get back to you as soon as I have an answer.

[@paulhurst4239]

40 years ago I could have used a 32 oz flooring hammer. We spent a few days nailing hardwood flooring in a house, and my 16 oz Stanley is all I had to use. I ended up with cramping muscles in my right arm... and my ears ringing for ever afterward.

[@snapringchronicles3020]

Wow that a cool looking hammer 🔨

[@Resto-Scraps]

Dinner guests..so hard so many .. One would Errol Flynn Mac daddy of his day., And quite good w/ the sword. And I'm a pretty good fencer myself. Next would by Granddaddy no words can describe. And last but not least and Harley Davidson.. either or.. Great stuff as always!!!

[@lotsatrains]

Sweet looking hammer that was an awesome project 👍

[@Uwannawatch]

Holy Hammers, this is the 4th hammer restoration I've seen in about a week {counting Jim's twice} and they have all been different. I like how your videos provoke thought not just seeing things restored. My 3 people would be Vincent van Gogh he was such a great artist who was never understood. Sir William Wallace since I'm Scottish. and Nikola Tesla he was actually trying to make a good change for the world. Beautiful hammer I personally like shiny steel.

[@ScoutCrafter]

When I was younger I was dating a teacher, I told her I didn’t know anything about art. She spent an hour telling me about The Starry Night. Ever since then I was hooked. 😃👍

[@Uwannawatch]

@@ScoutCrafter If you haven't seen it the movie Loving Vincent is awesome and Van Gogh was also a late bloomer who studied hard to become better. ya so would love to talk to that guy. thanks again for a great video.

[@kentonlord5986]

I enjoy watching your vidios very much. I have started to go back and watch some from 3 and 4 years ago. I understand why you say don't put to much work and time into "junk" tools Chinese is. Stanley hammers (4 hammers $40 you wanted the Eastwing). I have one exception to that. I am learning and as given some tools most are junk a couple good. I am practicing on the junk so I don't damage the good. Wire wheel is doing good, 1x30 sander I am learning. Looking forward to the painting. Practicing on junk may do a vidio myself one day. lol. Oh I don't have 3, just 1 my dad, there is so much I would love to tell him and to get his advice on.

[@ScoutCrafter]

Ken- funny thing is today many tools that are imported aren’t junk. I’m a real fan of Taiwanese tools. Great value and quality tools! 😃👍

[@lotsabirds]

Hammer looks fantastic! Enrico Caruso, Carl Sagan, Martin Luther King Jr.

[@RossTFarnsworth]

Not sure about my third, but my first two would be my Grandfather and Great Grandfather, one for the knowledge about the early machine tool industry in Windsor VT, and the other for his knowledge of Vermont history. I would like to sit down and talk to Charles E. Billings, I am interested in drop-forging in the 1800s and early carbon steel wrenches.

[@ricksolari9570]

My uncle Tony, his father's father, and Abe Lincoln as guest speaker.

[@toolrestoration]

Yay Monday scoutcrafter day ! And double yay a hammer restoration not seen a hammer restoration for .... I can't remember how long .....nice to know we both remove hammer handles the same way 😂😂.... My 10 year old son Tommy said Nikola Tesla just before you did - a total genius ...and very sad later life .... Now to See, watch, enjoy and maybe copy !! Only complaint .... Never long enough John !!!!!!

[@ScoutCrafter]

Jim- I had to laugh, last night watching your hammer restoration video I thought “Jim is going to think I am copying him!” 😂 the same thing happened years ago with 357 magdad. It seemed like every time I had a video finished waiting to post it magdad would put out the same exact video the day before. 😂👍

[@toolrestoration]

@@ScoutCrafter it's happened to me a few times with you , I end up rearranging the order of my stored ones .... I know yours was recorded before mine was released .... Thou ..... My hammer resto was about a year old .......

[@fasteddy07]

Tutankhamon, Marcus Aurelius, Albert Einstein.

[@samfeldman1508]

J Edgar Hoover, Robin Williams, Mary Shelly

[@RestorationAustralia]

Stunning.👍

[@saigaking]

Fantastic mosh scout the 🔨 came out great I would probably Pick Leonardo da Vinci Ernest Shackleton and Nicola Tesla like Yourself great pick god bless take care 🙏👍🦅🇺🇸🗽🇳🇿

[@Eagle48]

Sir Ernest Shackleton would definitely be on my list, too.

[@davidchristensen6908]

My grandmother was almost 100 years old and I asked her what was the best thing she saw in her life. She thought for a moment and said landing on the moon was really something. She then said “and jello”. She told me that jello in the 1930’s made jello molds and if you filled you tank 4 times in a month you got a free jello mold. Living in Plevna Montana there was not much entertainment so once a month she had a big party and everyone wanted to watch the jello be un molded. The only thing that brought a bigger crowed was when my grandfather won a chimpanzee in a poker game. I would love to have dinner with my grandmother and 2 other guest

[@ScoutCrafter]

Oh My God! Your grandfather wanna chimpanzee in a poker game? 😳😂😂👍

[@davidchristensen6908]

Yes he won a chimp. He sold it for the money. The man that bought the monkey came back to my grandfather and said the chimp is up a tree and won’t come down. The asked my grandfather if he could get him down. My grandfather said sure went down to the guys house saw the chimp in the tree he pulled out a gun and shot the chimp and said there there’s your monkey. My grandfather was something else. We didn’t believe the story until we read the news paper clipping in the town historical museum. Many stories with my grandparents they were motorcycle rides in 1910 to 1920. This is a great channel

[@1lupus]

John Stuart Mill, Polybius, and, Mark Twain. Nice hammer by the way.