H.O Studley - Perfection

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  1. Billy_B

    Billy_B Well-Known Member FCN Regular

    Henry Studley

    Massachusetts piano maker Henry Studley built his magnificent tool chest over the course of a 30-year career at the Poole Piano Company. The chest lived on the wall near his workbench, and he worked on it regularly, making changes and adding new tools as he acquired them. Using ebony, mother-of-pearl, ivory, rosewood, and mahogany -- all materials used in the manufacture of pianos -- he refined the chest to the point that now, more than 80 years after his death, it remains in a class of its own.

    Considering how many tools it holds, the famous chest is really quite small; when closed, it is just 9 in. deep, 39 in. high, and just more than 18 in. wide. Yet it houses so many tools -- some 300 -- so densely packed that three strong men strain to lift it.

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  2. PumpkinPie

    PumpkinPie Guest

    I was shocked at the small measurements of the chest, I wonder if this is in a museum
     
  3. LemonHead

    LemonHead Member

    That is awesome! For some reason it makes me think of that case in Puppet Master movies with all those tools inside.
     

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