Old screwdriver

ArtStation - Old screwdriver

MetMo Driver has a nifty way of making manual labor and physical effort fun, it was designed to turn your versatile, age-old screwdriver into an intriguingly powerful high-torque tool that’s a whole lot of fun to use too.

You can remove a stuck screw with a screw extractor, but an even easier method is to put a rubber band over the head, press down with a screwdriver and turn it.

These old types of screwdrivers turn up very infrequently in my neck of the woods where they're commonly referred to as "mechanics' screwdrivers." Only two of the examples above have any identifying marks. One says "Irwin" and another "Steel Warranted Germany." Several have numbers cast into the blade at the end, perhaps to signify length, or perhaps because at one time some manufacturers had their own blade width classification system. As late as the mid-Thirties, you could still find…

Two old screwdrivers from my father's collection

The generations that have gone before give us the tools we need to survive in the world. Sometimes those tools are very literal tools, and handed to us in an oil-stained box. Like these my dad just gave me. They had been my grandfather’s and great-grandfather’s, and I have yet to undertake identifying them. Reader Bob…

Sherwin's Screwdriver • oil on linen • 16x10 This is my oil painting of a really old German screwdriver.

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