Is CPA the only one currently manufacturing these right now?

RSW wrote on Dec 6^th, 2016 at 2:58pm:


Do you know how much Jerry sells his tools for or how to contact him?

Jerry Cleave can be reached at 559-338-2357. If his prices haven't changed the tool he makes is $150.00, including one shell holder. Extra shell holders are $25.00 each. 

It definitely will be money well spent. This is a picture of mine.

JerryH

I sent Jerry an email a week ago and haven't heard back. I might just get one from CPA. The C sharps looks decent quality and is a quite a bit cheaper though. I was hoping someone made one that was color case hardened like the ones Meacham use to make. Those ones look real nice.

Green_Frog wrote on Dec 13^th, 2016 at 6:46pm:


Jerry Simmons tools are a copy of the ones made by Charles S. Pool (Jerry Cleave's uncle). The tools Jerry Cleave makes are true copies of the tools made by his Uncle Charles S. Pool, using his uncle's lathe and mill. Jerry also has all of his uncle's records and can tell you who any of his Pool Tools were sent to and any repairs or additions that were done through the years.

The Story of the Pool Tool is in the March 1998 Precision Shooting magazine, written by Gerald A. Cleave. It's a very interesting article with plenty of history. It's well worth finding a copy. 

I'm fortunate to count Jerry Cleave as one of my close friends and shoot with him once a month. I just wanted to keep history straight Froggie, I wasn't trying to pick on you.

JerryH 

Smoke...if not ,he could possibly modify shell holder to fit yours. I bought one from Jerry last year with three shell holders, rods, etc. Very quick change over.Worth every penny.......Pete

<<<<BTW, a couple of friends I have talked to found those primer pocket scrapers to get in the way so they replaced them with some little acorn-shaped end caps or covered the whole handle(s) with wood or rubber tubing.  I haven't found this necessary myself, but some folks do.
Froggie >>>>

That is not actually a primer pocket scraper.  It a screwdriver blade.   
I told Jerry Simmons that he should put a phillips head on the other handle.   
He did not take too kindly to the suggestion.

Jerry H,

I bow to your superior knowledge of the Cleave/Simmons tool relationships.  Of course there is at least some indication that a California guy named Chicks somebody or other made one in the late 19th Century that was copied or adapted by Harry Pope and got this whole thing started.  IIRC, I got that reference from the schuetzen section of John Dutcher's book of the Ballards.

mes,

It's neither a primer scraper nor a screwdriver blade, it's a palm gouger!  I've got the scars to prove it!

Froggie