Would someone consider putting a "sticky" in the appropriate category for the Poole Tool?

Bill Lawrence

40_Rod wrote on Aug 26^th, 2020 at 10:27am:


Just received my Cleave tool today, and as usual it's the perfection Jerry always does! Mine is set up for 5 calibers, and has shell holders, rods with sleeves and knurled decapping pin guides for all sizes. Plus large and small primer rods, and large and small primer pocket tools in each handle.
A true work of gun art, and serial numbered. Calibers for mine are .45-70, .40-63 Ballard, .38-55 Ballard, .32-40 Ballard, and .25-20 WCF. I can mix shell holders, and rod sleeves to do a number of other calibers also. 

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Jerry was kind enough to fix my Jake Simmons re-de-capper years ago. After the decapping pin was too messed up to save, he built a whole new decapping rod from a Pool-Cleave tool, and fitted it to my Simmons tool. 
Shortly after I had Jerry build me a breech seating tool for my Hepburn Match B in .32-40 B&M, and it too was a fine piece. 
There's not many people who are as nice as Jerry, and do the quality work he does too!

I second that. How about a price and POC?

Jeff_Schultz wrote on Sep 21^st, 2020 at 7:52pm:

I'll guess POC = point of contact

I can post Jerry's contact info, if he says it's OK. But I wont post it unless he tells me it's OK, and wont post pricing, as that's Jerry's to do or not.

But Jerry's email is gcleave@ymail.com 

He's on this forum, but don't recall his user name here?

I'll second JerryH on the quality of Jerry Cleave's work, and the price being well worth the quality. As you can see from my pictures, (even not great pictures) his work is flawless.
I've been using the heck out of this tool lately getting a bunch of cases ready for a shoot in the near future. It's a joy to use, and very quick to change calibers with the sleeves, and knurled guides!

My bet is they're different, or at least slightly different, and wont interchange. I sent my Simmons re-decapper to Jerry because the decapping pin was busted off, and knurled ring on the rod was gone. Jerry made me up a whole new rod and pin as he said his and his uncle Charlie's were different than Jake's. 
Doesn't mean the shellholder is different too, but odds are it is. But Jerry make be able to make more shellholders if he has the tools to make them fit your Simmons body? You should contact Jerry and ask.

Thanks for the replies gentlemen.  Unless the shell holder head is close enough to the same size that it would fit or perhaps could just be altered slightly (rethreaded, etc) it wouldn't be worthwhile to have Jerry start to make one from scratch... I could get that done here.  I was just hoping (perhaps vainly) that I could avoid that necessity.

Froggie

I have both Jerry's and Jake's tools and they are different.

For what it is worth, Jerry's tools are excellent, wonderful craftsmanship.  Also Jerry is a great guy to do business with.  He made a tool for me to cap/decap 450/400 3 1/4" BPE and 9.3x72R, neither or which are run of the mill single shot cartridges.  His tool works wonderfully.

Not many that compare to the fit and finish of Jerry Cleave's tools!

this Cleave tool is one beautiful piece of work.. my compliments to the maker....