Bikejuju » bike history http://www.bikejuju.com Fri, 27 Jan 2012 06:36:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 A Real Crescent Wrench. http://www.bikejuju.com/2011/a-real-crescent-wrench/ http://www.bikejuju.com/2011/a-real-crescent-wrench/#comments Fri, 26 Aug 2011 04:09:23 +0000 Tom http://www.bikejuju.com/?p=3536 Post image for A Real Crescent Wrench.

I was working on adding some bling to the tallbike for Burning Man and I looked down and noticed something interesting.

I’d never really registered before that my old Crescent Wrench was an actual, made-in-the-USA wrench by Crescent Tool of Jamestown, NY.

It’s pretty different from the Chinese knockoff I’ve been using and calling a “Crescent Wrench” since forever. I think I must have inherited this real Crescent Wrench from my grandfather – I got a bunch of tools from him when he passed away. I love the patina and the history of this tool, which has to be one of the most versatile hand tools to have been designed in the 20th century. So I dug up a little more history.

The Crescent Tool Company, was officially incorporated in 1907 by Swedish emigrant Karl Peterson in Jamestown, NY. Although several companies marketed similar tools, the Crescent wrench was very popular and held significant market share.

There’s a whole history of the Crescent Tool Company here.

Because Crescent was acquired by the Crestaloy Company in 1930, my wrench may in fact be a pre-1930 original!

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Despite the risk that I will never hear the end of jokes about this around our house, I am posting this lovely 1904 image. View it larger here.

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