Any tool savants here?

[Flivver250]

Getting ready to change the ball joints in the TJ and I realized my Dubai toolbox lacks a 28mm. My local

buddy went to one of the Indian owned tool shops and picked me up this for $10. Do you think this is a Chinese fake? Has a nice feel to it. Seems too cheap, had very light surface rust in a couple spots that rubbed off with a scotch pad. He has a whole set and says they have been hanging around his store for years. Thoughts?

 

[Mike_H]

They wouldn't be able to say Germany on them if they were made in China...

Plus they look older than typical Chinese copycat tools. I'd say it's the real deal

 

[Flivver250]

I can't find any data on this company. I also got a cheap Asian 28 mm socket for the job. It just rubs me the wrong way to buy lousy tools, even for a one time only use. Maybe this wrench is real, if so, I'll buy the rest.

 

[cliffish]

looks real...if it said snap-on I say fake, I would grab em if they are a decent deal

 

[tman66]

They wouldn't be able to say Germany on them if they were made in China...

Plus they look older than typical Chinese copycat tools. I'd say it's the real deal

Yeah, cause China wouldn't break any laws.

OP: I'm willing to bet they are not made in Germany and probably imported from an eastern European or Pakistan, India.

Vertrieb means distribution in German and that's fine.

But if that's in German, why do they say Germany instead of Deutschland?

My two cents.

 

[superduty]

Is that a notable German tool company?

Assuming it isn't, why counterfeit it.

Counterfeit of a product is really only profitable with products that ppl want. Stuff like snap on.

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[jeepins]

To the world it's universally 'Germany'. To Germans (Europeans) it's Deutschland.

 

[Flivver250]

I have bona fide German tools, and they say Germany. Based upon the price, I suspect knock off tools but it could be real. It is not any notable brand, and German does not automatically mean good.

 

[TJ2]

Wait until Polynesians makes their own wrench (just for TJs) and relates the patent into their famous national fish.

 

[skrelnik]

I found a couple tidbits, and Bodmann appears to be an old school maker of high quality tools, whether yours is real or fake is up in the air.

"Bodmann” preceded by the stylised initials ”KW”.The Bodmann handles are made of wood which is shaped and painted to simulate horn.(Figure 4).Sometimes also marked “Germany” or “Made in Germany”

Reinhold Berndt has no record of Bodmann corkscrews but Bodmann tools often pop up on ebay in Australia and Bodmann is still manufacturing or distributing German hand tools such as diamond cutting blades (see www.alishardwareltd.com and search Bodmann).

In the Brisbane Courier Mail in 1927 Bodmann & Co of Reinscheid Germany were described as manufacturers of
guaranteed tools and hardware.

http://ravitoolcollection.blogspot.com/2016/08/bodmann-germany.html?m=1

 

[Flivver250]

Interesting. Maybe it is real.

 

[Kingsway]

I found a couple tidbits, and Bodmann appears to be an old school maker of high quality tools, whether yours is real or fake is up in the air.

"Bodmann” preceded by the stylised initials ”KW”.The Bodmann handles are made of wood which is shaped and painted to simulate horn.(Figure 4).Sometimes also marked “Germany” or “Made in Germany”

Reinhold Berndt has no record of Bodmann corkscrews but Bodmann tools often pop up on ebay in Australia and Bodmann is still manufacturing or distributing German hand tools such as diamond cutting blades (see www.alishardwareltd.com and search Bodmann).

In the Brisbane Courier Mail in 1927 Bodmann & Co of Reinscheid Germany were described as manufacturers of
guaranteed tools and hardware.

http://ravitoolcollection.blogspot.com/2016/08/bodmann-germany.html?m=1

As a Senor citizen who indulges in doing a bit of Woodwork using old hand tools for the sheer pleasure of it, when traveling drop into that little town treasure shops of whartever

A liitle town in the West of NSW State Australia saw me buy a rather good collection of old Swiss Gimlet brace bits

On cleaning them up the No.4 1/8" 4/32" bit was stamped clearly Bodmann Germany

Goggling Bodmann reveals little except that Bodmaan was an early 1900 manufacturer of tools for various trades Woodworking, Metalworking fencing, and mechanical

Hope that helps