Just recently a friend brought me this screwdriver and ask if I had one to which I replied no, haven't even seen one. He said he ran across it while out one day and thought of me and purchased it and brought it to me. How awesome is that. 

 

 

Anyway it's an HD Smith #8 Winged screwdriver. They made this starting in the early 1900's and other tools in a line called "Perfect Handle".

 

 

Here is a link to a site with some information f you would like to see more.

 

Excited to add this to my old tool collection.

 

 

That's really Cool!

 

I gotta ask, what is the surface on which the screwdriver is laying?

2 hours ago, lew said:

That's really Cool!

 

I gotta ask, what is the surface on which the screwdriver is laying?

 

It's a piece of a sound absorbing panel that I cut off from a piece at the shooting range. It's a cellulose type material.

 

 

Never saw one with wings.  Thanks for sharing.  You have a great friend.

Reading "The Essential Woodworker" by Robert Wearing this week.

 

He says in Britain, they use the term "turnscrew" and says that is preferable to "screwdriver" that we Americans use.  "...a screw properly arranged should not need to be driven, which implies hard work, but merely turned."     

I wonder what he has to say about "spanners"   Maybe a later chapter.

It is a job driving screws into wood and making the threads as it goes.  Drill/driver.  I'd like to see them "turnscrew" a deck together and not call it work.

That almost sounds like a William Shakespeare play:  "The Turning of the Screw".