Ghost Drawings

Wanna see where this design came from? I had originally been thinking of making a larger prytool and then trying to use the inside waste cutout to give me a two for one kind of tool shape. But the more I thought about it I decided to not do the big tool but just try the smaller one. Because after all, I am most interested in the smaller tools myself. The Ghosts are 2.5" long.



Anyway, I liked the outcome but then I started playing with variations of it. I ended up deciding to go with the most complicated of the drawings and trying a new edge treatment. I may make the variation drawings too at some point....you can see my doodlings, eraser marks and my brainstorming for names, none of which ended up being used. :)

G2 SuperBug Sneak Peek

Here's a quick mockup of the coming G2 SuperBug design. Changes from Gen1 are the O2 wrench as lanyard hole, round bottle opener area, B tank wrench for his eye and overall length is increased to 3.5 inches. Also, the o-ring grooves have been enlarged and I'm using fatter o-rings.

It will be a few weeks before these tools are done. These are only quick mockups, the tools have not been heat treated so no, I am not selling prototypes. ;)



Next to a mockup of the plain Ghost for size comparison:

March Update

I have the remaining WingNuts ready and will do a sale later today. These had to have extensive refinishing and so will have a smooth gunmetal gray finish rather than the brighter Stone Aged finish. I am just not able to get that high lustre with my home equipment. However, I really like the antique look that I have been getting through my own efforts.

The Fixers are sitting here with sheaths done but I still need to sharpen them.

The titanium Wroach is a long ways off still since they need to be milled, etc...the whole finishing process.

G2 Superbugs are maybe three weeks away from completion with a very small number coming this week with raw bar finish.

My buddy at the machine shop screwed me up with the remaining Mini BrewDrivers because he decided to knock off and do another project rather than finishing mine but he should be back on them this week. As soon as I get them I will be doing a batch in green and probably some other colors as well. Some plain ones will be available for those who ask for them.

The Flea has been renamed the Ghost and I have a small number of them with raw bar finish at heat treat right now, will possibly have them later this week but I don't want to swear to it since the heat treat guys never let me know when my stuff will run through the ovens and tumblers. The remaining LARGE batch is almost done and ready to start tumbling, heat treat etc so will be a few weeks. I'm going to work on these this morning and try to get them out the door by tomorrow to start the finishing journey.

The Raw Bar finished Ghost:



Titanium Prototype Wroach:

More WingNuts!

Hi All,

I have a few more WingNuts completed. These are 5/32 thick S30v steel, 4 inches long. They are SAE wrench sizes and feature 1/4"-9/16" in both open and close configurations. Changes from last year's batch include beefier open end wrench teeth, larger lanyard hole and elimination of the front end grinds in favor of thicker wrench teeth. They have a cool antique Stone Aged finish that makes them look like something your grandfather handed down to you.

Sold out until I get more finished, thank you!

Rainbow Mini BrewDrivers

Good morning folks! I have some rainbow anodized Mini BrewDrivers finished today. They are $65 plus shipping...

More coming in a few days, thank you!

Blue Mini BrewDrivers

Happy Snowy Tuesday! We're getting a couple of inches today. Amazingly, while other parts of the nation have gotten hammered this year we are only at about 16 inches total for the season. Which is fine by me. :)

Alrighty then...here's the next wave of Mini BrewDrivers. I decided to leave these with a lightly tumbled semi satin finish and then I anodized them blue. I will do the next ones with either rainbow or green but this batch is for the blue fans out there. They run $65 plus shipping and as always, thanks so much for stopping by folks!

Sold out, thank you!

Plain Satin Mini BrewDrivers

Happy Wednesday Folks!

I have a bunch of plain satin finished Mini BrewDrivers completed. This is the pendant sized version in the BrewDriver series. I will make various color anodized ones when I get the remaining pieces done in a few days but for now I thought I would start with some plain satin finished ones.

These are 2 inches long and are turned from the same 1/2" diameter solid titanium bar stock that the original BrewDrivers are made of. They open bottles just fine, no problem with leverage.

The Mini BrewDriver pendants are $65 each plus shipping and they come with a 24" length of bead chain. Thanks for stopping by. :)

Plain are sold out for now, many many more on the way in a few days. Thank you!

The Latest News

Hopefully y'all haven't gone away and forgotten about me...I'm working hard to get things going again! :) This is kind of like last August if you some of you remember that period. I had a lot of stuff in process but nothing finished for several weeks. But then I was able to keep sales going with some regularity for awhile.

Upcoming tools include:

The Mini BrewDrivers will be done later this week. No doubt I will have several sales with various finishes. See pic below.

I'm working on the Candy Bar tool which I think I may rename the Wroach. It's a 3.5" Mini Bug Out Bar kind of thing with several wrench openings, o2 tank wrench as the lanyard hole and o ring grips. Approximately 3-4 weeks away on those. They are titanium.

And I have another design finalized yesterday called the Flea and that one is a pendant type tool but it has O2 tank wrench, 1/4 hex, bottle opener and pry tip. Kind of a radically redesigned Chigger, similarly sized, and those will be in thick steel to start. There are three variations of that design. 4-5 weeks away on those.

SAE WingNuts are also in process, 2 weeks away on those.

Green BrewDrivers

So, here's some anodized BrewDrivers. I have some green ones done right now and there are a handful of rainbow available as well for which you can either email me or put in the shopping cart comments that you want rainbow. Anodized BrewDrivers are $70 plus shipping.

All gone, thank you folks!

Plain BrewDrivers

I hope everyone is having a nice relaxing weekend!

I have a few of the plain satin titanium BrewDrivers done today. They are the same price as the blue ones yesterday, $70 plus shipping. I still have several dozen more BrewDrivers to finish up so there will still be more chances to pick one of these up this week. I'll be doing some more colors next.

Plain ones are gone! Thanks you so much folks.

Blue BrewDrivers

Howdy Folks,

OK, I have the first wave of BrewDrivers ready to do. I had thought I would do plain ones first but I decided to anodize these blue. I will have some plain unanodized ones tomorrow though. These are taking me a little while to finish because they have to be deburred by hand and it is quite time consuming to get into the nooks and crannies. So there will be several waves of these with a variety of finishes and colors.

These titanium BrewDriver keyfob tools are $70 plus shipping. They will come with o-rings and a keyring.

Blue Ones are gone, thanks!

New Projects: BrewDriver

I'm still working on the new BrewDriver tools but they are very close to done. I should have the first ones finished by tomorrow. These are simple keyfob tools, turned from solid 1/2" bars of titanium and they measure 3.25" long. They feature a bottle opener and screwdriver/prytip on a diamond knurled shaft with a flat for my name stamp. The bottle opener is a two pry popper meaning it takes two shots to get the cap off but it does work fine. The screwdriver tip is the standard 1/4 wide size. A large lug style end with 1/4" hole makes getting the tool on and off the keys a very simple proposition.

I will be doing the first wave as plain pieces, no anodized colors. They look pretty cool both with and without the o-ring bumpers so I will include the o-rings and let users decide if they want them on the tool or not.

The price on these will be $70 plus shipping. I'll post a sale in the morning but right now I'm back to the grindstone, literally, for the afternoon. ;)

And the Winners Are:

Thank you to everyone who signed up! Man, it always amazes me when I get a big turnout like today. Anyway, the lucky 6 are below:

98 alpo
108 Nikobimmer
145 Davem- Dark Blue
169 mort
197 1wrx7
260 Mav1

I'll send out emails in a few minutes. Meanwhile I don't know if paypal is still down or not but hopefully it will be back soon.

Titanium Glow Wrenches SUS

Howdy Folks,

OK, I have six Titanium Atwrenches with glow dots available. As you can see from the picture they are all different. Price on them will be $75 plus shipping. One entry per person please! Read the rules below if you are unfamiliar with how these sales work. The Sign Up Sale will be over at 8PM Eastern time tonight, Thursday, January 21st. Drawing will be shortly afterwards and the winners may choose which color they want in the order that I receive payment or email response.

Sale is Over, thanks to all who signed up.

List of Entrants

Sign Up Sale Rules

Stamped Business Cards

Hi Folks,

I managed to finish a few more Atwood Business Cards, all with stamps on them. I have a variety of images including crowns, sword hilts, tiny boat, leaves, owl and many others, mostly different. To keep it simple, I will send you whatever I send you, no choice, as they are all nice.

This is only a small batch so I will make it one per customer please. This is the end of the tools that are salvageable from the entire batch. They are $50 plus shipping and the link is below.

Sold Out, thank you!

New Projects

Hi Folks,

I'm working on a bunch of new stuff for 2010. I just finalized some drawings for a new Pry Bar type of tool which will be done in both steel and titanium. The CandyBars will be cut next week. I have an updated Superbug coming as well and I'm thinking of doing that one in titanium only. They are pretty big compared to the first ones... There are some other variation pieces in the works as well as a small titanium pendant tool.

I first mentioned in the comments last week that I'm working on a new tool turned from titanium bar stock called the BrewDriver. The BrewDriver tool is very close to starting actual production. I should have some completed samples in a couple of days and some pieces for sale in about one week if all goes as intended. I'm trying to get a very large batch of these produced. I don't know yet how much they will be as I do not have the final cost yet myself. What I have seen so far of the knurling, grooving, milling and quality of finish has me pretty excited though and I think this will be a really neat piece when they are finally done. The complexity of these things is crazy sometimes. However, I can envision several spin offs coming from this one if we can get all the turning and milling figured out so I'm hoping it's all doable.

I intend to get those long promised SAE WingNuts started through the finishing process by next week. They are close, just need a little more sanding and clean up. I also need to get to work on some long overdue sheaths for a few dozen Fixer knives that I still have in stock from last year.

There are several other things in the works too so stay tuned. It's going to be a very interesting year. :)

MicroSpud Reprise

Good Morning!

I have a few 3V steel MicroSpud Wrenches available. I made these last spring and had set some aside thinking I would send them to get DLC coating but then completely forgot about them. I came across them this past weekend while cleaning up the shop. These have a bead blasted finish. Features include 7/16 wrench, bottle opener, prytip with wire stripper notch, 1/4" hex driver opening and alignment tool end, 5 inches OAL. The MicroSpuds are $70 plus shipping and the purchase link is below.

Sold Out, thanks folks!

Basic Mini Keytons

While sorting through some stuff in the shop yesterday I found a dozen basic Mini Keytons. These will be one per customer and are $45 plus shipping. Thanks for stopping by.

All gone, thank you!

Shiners

Good Morning AtFolks,

Here's a little blast from the past. I have a small number of bead blasted Shiners available. There are only a few so I will limit it to one per customer and the price on them is $45 plus shipping. Here is the link:

Sold Out, thank you!

Atwood Business Card

Hi Everyone,

Well, tax stuff and paperwork is taken care of and now I'm back on track finishing some projects and getting others underway. This has been a highly productive couple of weeks and I have come up with a lot of new designs and some new ideas for the next few months.

First up this year will be the Business Cards. You'll recall that I had a lot of trouble with these and even after getting them "fixed" there was still a high loss rate. I will only be able to save about 1/4-1/3 of the batch and even the ones that I am able to save are not necessarily perfect. So, if you are looking for absolute precision then you should pass on this one because even though most of these tools are acceptable there are some that are a little bit off as far as the rulers are concerned. I can tell you one thing: I will not be making any ruler tools again for the foreseeable future unless I'm able to find an outfit that is more on the ball!

The Atwood Business Card combines 21 wrench functions in a single wallet sized 420 stainless steel card tool. Features include six SAE sizes: 1/4, 5/16, 3/8, 7/16, 1/2, 9/16. Metric sizes include 6, 8, 10, 12, 14 and 16mm in the center set and 5, 7, 9, 11, 13 and 15mm in the righthand set. 1/4 and 5/16 nut driver openings and 5/16 bottle opener are included. Two rulers complete the package. These are all bead blasted.

These card tools measure 3.5 x 2 inches, same size as a standard business card. They weigh 1.6 ozs and are made of heat treated 420 grade semi stainless high carbon cutlery steel with a medium glass bead finish. There are NO TITANIUM ones in this batch and no, I will not be putting a cutting edge on these. The price is $45 plus shipping and the purchase link is below:

All gone for now but a few more coming in the next day or so. Thank you!