Finally I Scored Myself A Beautiful Hooker............................. Tool!!

[MultiMat]

No I haven't done a Charlie sheen  , I finally nabbed a Bridgeport 'Hooker' hammer multitool with the help of a US based forum member  , thanks mate  .
I love these Bridgeport hammer multitools & I saw one of these Hooker's awhile ago & knew I HAD to have one , it just tickled me in all the right places   



Bridgeport made quite a range of these hammer multitools & referred to them as 'crate tools' , I presume they were used by warehouse, maritime workers or anyone working with wooden crates.They generally have a hammer+- a hatchet , nail pulls/levers & pry bars. the Hooker is a smaller Bridgeport with just the hammer & x2 nail pulls + pry bars. It gets it's Hooker name I believe from the nail pull found on the right side of the tool's shaft. The side nail remover/hooker was designed to remove longer nails that the nail remover at the end of the tool would struggle with.


From a 1953 sales catalogue.


Quite the pretty Hooker & she packs a punch 




Getting the rust out of the Hooker's nooks & crannies(that's crannies not fannies ok  ), was a bit tricky but putting various Dremel tool bits into my cordless drill did the trick  .

I hope to do a post of all my Bridgeport hammer multi tools some time in the future, along with another vintage hammer multitool called the 'Exhumer'  that came with my Hooker  .The Bridgeport Hardware Manufacturing Corp. made a huge range of tools & was based in Bridgeport Connecticut, it has been out of business for many years.Their multitool hammers/hatchets hold the most appeal for me  a multifunctional whacker  . 

 

[Steinar]

Cool tool! That nail slot in the side of the handle looks like it is a perfect recipe for hand injuries when hammering, though?

[Metropolicity]

Cool tool! That nail slot in the side of the handle looks like it is a perfect recipe for hand injuries when hammering, though?

Not if you are wearing work gloves which I imagine they would working on the docks

[AimlessWanderer]

I reckon you got an excellent "Universal Adjuster" there Mat 

I've never paid for a Hooker before, but if I found one of those .... 

[Steinar]

Cool tool! That nail slot in the side of the handle looks like it is a perfect recipe for hand injuries when hammering, though?

Not if you are wearing work gloves which I imagine they would working on the docks

Not necessarily, I have known some people who didn't even use gloves when moving freshly demolished rocks at building sites, and I suppose that was even more usual in 1914. Though I guess someone carrying that thing would start pretty quickly.

[Sparky415]

Nicely cleaned up and useful looking tool Mate! 

(one way or another we all pay Al )

[Grant Lamontagne]

Nice find Mat!  I have a couple of similar tools as well, but mine are nowhere near as classy as your Hooker!

I have what Lee Valley Tools calls the Box Tool in the catalogue and what they call an Ugly Tool in reality.  I call it the Ugly tool because it is a much better name in my mind! 



The other one I have is Stanley's Fubar Fat Max model:



This is the same tool used in this armoire dis assembly video...





Def

[MultiMat]

Nice find Mat!  I have a couple of similar tools as well, but mine are nowhere near as classy as your Hooker!

I have what Lee Valley Tools calls the Box Tool in the catalogue and what they call an Ugly Tool in reality.  I call it the Ugly tool because it is a much better name in my mind! 

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The other one I have is Stanley's Fubar Fat Max model:

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This is the same tool used in this armoire dis assembly video...





Def

Def your Box Tool is a bit of a ringer for a Bridgeport No.99 Tomahawk tool ( I have one I am half way through putting a new wood handle on)
 

I love the look of the Fubar  but I don't do enough Demo work too warrant having one  , like that has stopped me in the past 

[David]

Nice score Mat!

[Grant Lamontagne]

Nice one Mat- maybe we should have an Ugly Tool forum here?

Def

[JAfromMn]

Cool old Tool Matt

I got space in my tool box for a hooker.

[Syph007]

I have what Lee Valley Tools calls the Box Tool in the catalogue and what they call an Ugly Tool in reality.  I call it the Ugly tool because it is a much better name in my mind! 

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That is ugly, but looks like a decent demolition tool for $12.50  At least thats the price at the lee valley here.  Would you recommed it?

[nuphoria]

Cheap at half the price.... well done for finding your new ugly smurfting stick

[Grant Lamontagne]

I have what Lee Valley Tools calls the Box Tool in the catalogue and what they call an Ugly Tool in reality.  I call it the Ugly tool because it is a much better name in my mind! 

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That is ugly, but looks like a decent demolition tool for $12.50  At least thats the price at the lee valley here.  Would you recommed it?

Well worth the money. I love mine and I use it all the time. I wrapped the handle in hockey tape because it was a bit slippery.

Def

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