I'll never forget my first Stanley utility knife because it was my first tool and because of how I found it. Me and dad were eating lunch watching the planes land and launch at the MSP airport. I looked down and found it in the sandy soil right by the car door. I still have it to this day.
Nice collection I am a retired carpet and Lino layer I carried a 199/ 299 Stanley in my pouch for 35 years we would tighten the screw with our thumb nail for making tool-less blade changes same with our Bloody Mary knives long before tool-less knifes were made. We always had a long Lino knife stone near. We also kept a small piece of an old Lino stone in our back pocket to resharpen our utility knifes.
My father was a carpenter after WWII, later he was a boss in the steel plant, he passed away in 2013. After doing some cleaning at his house I decided no one had more Stanley knives than he did, even Stanley.. :))))))))
Oddly enough I just took my 10 year old Stanley hook knife that I used for roofing and cleaned it up to use for gutting deer. Mine was made in England. I love old tools. A little WD40 and some elbow grease and a new blade and they're back to work.
Scout, you turned into a vampire. My buddy Bill "If-Its-Free-It's-For-Me" Majer thought he had struck gold when they junked a 120 gal. air compressor at work. All it needed was a new motor! We got it squared away and all was fine until the first night that it recharged itself. We had to put it against the wall the garage shared with his bedroom. Well, after about an hour of running, his wife was freaking out.
I still use mine and it's 20 years old. Painted mine when I first got it with Rustolium paint. So it's never rusted. Someone gave me a Milwaukee but it only holds one blade. The Stanley holds a dozen or so blades so that's why I prefer it. Your project came out good. I like the yellow and red. Looks a lot like a pistol grip.
I'm glad you don't go to bed too early because if you did we wouldn't have been privileged to see some of your masterpieces. Keep burning the midnight oil my friend!
Scout, during my time building fire trucks in Nebraska I learned to put soap on the sanding disks to help prevent clogging... Unless where you are sanding will be welded later. The soap really helped out saving disks! Great revisit!
Wish I still had my fathers. Same one. The older I get the luckier I feel to have a few of his many tools. I wish I could have seen the future lol. Now I love restoring them after watch your channel.
John, love your “scrap bar” of aluminum. Your scrap is better than most of my “good” stuff! LOL. BTW: that older 199 is fantastic! I will try to find an old model 199 to do. Thanks, friend.
I know what it feels like John I have been working shift work For years been chasing sleep for years ha ha .love the 199 Challenge the cast is my favourite such a classic knife I’m a big fan Of the plain style you did love the video god bless take care 🗽🙏🇺🇸🇳🇿
It's 2.15am Christmas Eve here in England and I'm watching a guy 3000 miles away talking about Stanley knives. I recently showed my wife my well-worn Stanley 10-015 knife given new to me by my Dad when I left home for art college 30 years ago. I tried to explain that it is my favourite Stanley knife. She claimed that no sane person has a 'favourite Stanley knife'... Merry Christmas mate!
Can never have too many utility knives. I found an interesting antique one with a wooden body and strange locking mechanism. Never seen anything like it in all my years of collecting tools.
Great job on the Stanley No199. I have one and now I know how to clean it up without destroying it. I also reviewed your vid on the miniature adjustable wrenches. I actually carried one in my pocket to adjust some parts of elevator door mechanisms and know of a few other techs who did the same. The info on the Bernard parallel jaw pliers was also much appreciated. My dad was in WWII and Korea in a heavy weapons company and the machine gunners would have had those in the service kits. Now I know where he probably got them. DBH ps, here's to us that stay up late!
Those look like little jewels. Those kind of knives are so usefull. I have a little table next to the front door and I have a couple of Stanley 99E's in the drawer. I'l use them for packages that come so I don't have to fight the tape or cardboard. They're great.
Speaking of the Stanley 199, I inherited a 199 from my mother. It is a "Goldblatt 199". Except for the molded-in name, it is a Stanley knife. According to her, it was a matte knife. As an artist, she used it to cut matte board for mounts. It had lots of scratches when I got it, but I made a cardboard sheath for it - and eventually, after a few years, the cardboard has worn the scratches away. It now lives in a tray with the other mail processing tools.
The 199s with the Tamiya paint look real nice. I like the variety of color combos near the end. Those remind me of the remakes of old European cigarette lighters I seen for sale all over Holland back in the 90s.
So many tool designs were made with recesses and grooves that are screaming for color... On some tools it's a sin to just ship them out not finished... -=D
Redo items are fun when you are trying to best year earlier standard. It's hard to choose which 1299 I liked best but you know I am a fan of the natural look. That paint is amazing. Thanks for sharing that information with us.
The last 15 years of my railroad career were all nights. Not one day shift. I am retired 9 years and still feel the effects of having my sleep clock twisted around.
My father used to have 10-20 each of every different type of tool. I literally have about 10 different versions and model number of these Stanley knives and have become addicted looking for more at flea markets. Another great video! You should do a live stream one day of you working late. I bet you'd have a lot of guys watching.
I like the older knife. The way it looks catches my eye. I never had to work nights very much. But when I was working at the hospital once in a while I would volunteer to work 2nd or 3rd shift to help out. It would about kill me. I couldn't go to sleep early to get ready. My family was always good and kept quiet. I would just stay up and go without. That seamed the only way for me to do it. Problem was sometimes it would be for a week at a time. I don't know how you guys would do it. Now I don't go to bed till about 2 am because of my health issues. Stay safe and healthy my friend. Thanks
Glen- I taught all the new guys how to adapt to nights... I told them you get 8 hours work, 8 hours play and 8 hours sleep... This is your livelihood so don't try to work nights and be up days it won't work.. Put cardboard over the windows and get an AC unit... Sleep 8 hours... They really appreciated it...
Hey Scoutcrafter, how about you showing us a tool you use ALOT ! Your 1st aid kit. Was surprised that you didn't have a bandaid on today, handling knives , & blades & all. 😮 Get the bacon scented ones now! 🤣😆😂😅👍
After 18 years of night shift. I live the vampire life lol. I've tried to break it but can't do it. Tamiya is great stuff I love the paints and the models. The paints work so well in airbrushes. They are top notch in hand painting too 🐱👍
I use the Tamiya paint building models. A much better and much cheaper thinner is common rubbing alcohol (if you can even find it). Should dry faster and fill in smaller cracks using the isopropyl. It will also remove it from the lettering. Tamiya, themselves; even says it is OK to use.
I love your work on these 199s. In case it matters, they are not aluminium; at least, not much in more recent years, if ever. The ones I have worked on are a high zinc (+90%) alloy. Your advice still applies for grinding and polishing, though they are not as soft as aluminium. I am going to do some work on some older ones, which might be made of other metals.
Hi Gord! Thanks for that info, alloys are hard to determine just from looking at it. The castings are still very nice and they are a beautiful knife! =D Thanks!
Carried a 199 in my bags a long time especially back in my sheetrocking days lol I even carried a stone to sharpen the blades...stay safe crafterman...
Great job on the utility knives and useful advice on proper cleanup. I have some utility knives, but none are Stanley 199s. I probably looked right past them at swap meets. As a Scoutcrafter subscriber, I now understand their mystique and will keep a sharper eye. Looking forward to future tool swapmeets, whenever the political class permits free association again. Snow in the Intermountain west.
I love how you finish metals. I try my hand at it and have gotten better since I got an XL fiber wheel. What a difference! Guess I need to pick up a 199 and have some fun
Actually, I have Joe beat. I found out about the fiber wheels off Garage Journal many years ago. I just found my packing slip and I ordered mine in January 2012. I guess I don't throw anything away, either.
I was taught if you use the sam tools on aluminum and steel you will always have galvanic corrosion.. when Ford started putting aluminum hoods on they're trucks I did a repair on mine..and painted it....looked great but about a year later the paint started bubbling in the spot where I made the repair. I found out it was because I used the same grinding pad I had used on steel.
Spent quite a few years getting up at Four-Thirty and starting work at 6am..........My Air Compressor is in the Garage and I have a line piped into my Basement Shop so I don't have to hear it...........Bird Seed Bag has Great Graphics, at least there's some products today that bother to make the packaging look nice..........The 199 you just did has the straight slot screw and all the others you showed have the Phillips.
Love my fixed blade Stanley knives. Try using a Zirconia based flap wheel when you are working on Aluminium. The Aluminium . Oxide is clogging up faster because the abrasive itself has Aluminium in it.
I know what you mean about sleeping. Before retiring I got up every morning for 34 years at 4.58am in order to catch the first train of the day. I have been retired now for nine years and you guessed, every day I wake up at 4.58am but now I can roll over and get another hours shut eye. The strange time was due to the alarm going off at 5.00am and I would be in my wife's bad books if it woke her at that time so I just woke up 2 minutes before (self preservation !!!) and switched off the alarm. The 199s look great but I noticed the older ones had a different tip to the modern ones, could you line them up to show the full evolution?. Fantastic video and a high spot of the day, thank you.
Tony- The first half of my career I worked days. (4am to 12:30pm) So I woke up at 3am for 16 years then I went into the shop and went to nights! LOL Out of the pan and into the fire!!!! =D
Hahaha! I'm having exactly the same scenario with work and sleep, John - I've been retired 17+ years and I find I do my best work in the evenings, then go to bed, watch RU-vid and eventually nod off at 2 or 3 at night. Of course nowadays with CoVID there's not a lot to get up for, so my days are turned upside-down... My kids hate me!
Thanks for another great video. I bet you could get rid of the gap by using the Dake. In fact you wouldn't need to actually use the Dake, you could just scare the 2 halves by showing them the Dake press.
I've been doing nights for fifteen years now, got nine more to retirement. I feel your pain. I'm way more ambitious about two A.M. but I have to be quiet.
I did a lot of night shifts, too. Doctors have even diagnosed me with "Day Night Reversal Syndrome" and I spent years on prescription sleeping pills trying to right this wrong. One thing I have found that helps is learning about circadian rhythms. Specifically 3 exposures of bright light can reset one's Circadian rhythms. Also the sleep hormone melatonin is not produced when exposed to blue light or these new 5k-10k LED lights. The old incandescent color or red LED lights are best. I even have my laptop set to get rid of blue light at 8pm. (windows 10 has it built in but there are apps you can download to do the same thing) The last thing I'd recommend is to google "sleep hygiene" as it has more hints. These days I'm off the RX sleeping meds. I take 4mg of chloropheniramine at night. It's an old very safe allergy medicine that has the side effect of causing sleepiness available by the 1,000 on amazon for less than twenty bucks. Most brick n mortar stores don't even carry it unless you specifically ask for it.
Great Job! I have been thinking about doing something with a Stanley Chalk-O-Matic Model 47-100. It has a maroon color to it that is chipped. Looks a lot like the model 199 case. I think I have some ideas now. HAve you ever done an old chalk line?
