What Was YOUR First Tool Set?

What's up, CB? You are easily the most knowledgeable man on this site! I miss your input! In a different age I woulda apprenticed under you...and learned so much.
PLEASE don't take my impudence as a criticism. I LOVE this stuff!
Let's have some FUN. What do you say?

CB--tell us about your first tools and what you know about tool history.

My parents say I liked to take my toys apart and put them back together. I don't remember my 1st tool. Most of my stuff was hand-me-downs from my fathers and grandfathers collection. SK, Husky, Craftsmen (back when they made good Craftsman). It wasn't until I was turning wrenches for a living that I ever had any Snap-On. I did get a Stawille (sp?) set of Witworth sockets from my dad. (he had an MG and Sunbeam).
Lately I have just finished the rebuild on a 855 Cummins. Got it installed in my '83 cabover. It came from my '89 and it is amazing the difference between them in those few short years. There was a whole lot that had to be swapped for it to work. Ironically I found I needed a new radiator and that cost more then the complete rebuild. Doesn't seam like it should be so.
I seam to add a fair number of Proto tools now, everything else I buy tool-wise is some special tool or other.

My first tools for the trade were for sheet-metal work. Some came from my Dad. The companies that I took my apprenticeship with and later worked for encouraged their employees to buy through the company. These tool purchases were subsidised by the company and deducted off our pay. I stopped buying tools for a few years until the mortgage was paid. That was the worst 5 years of my life.
I was 17 and an ignorant grade 10 drop-out when I went into this apprenticeship. Dad said he was going to kill me unless I was in trade school the next Monday. Dad was there waiting for me. It took only a week or two for me to discover that I liked being a tradesman and turn my attitude around. I don't think I ever had a paycheque without maximum overtime in the next 50 years.
Some tools from the sheetmetal trade.

And here are a few more. some are first tools and other followed me home.
I have hundreds of antique tools going back into the 1800. Many of then have IH, IHC, McCormick DEERING and FARMALL cast or stamped into the tools. I cannot remember many of the tool names right now. Some that come to mind are DOUBLE-HEX, CANADIAN GRAY and KING DYCK. I might dig them out when our non IHC is finished. Did I mention steel tractor seats? Maybe I shouldn't.

I have a King Dick 1/2" drive. Dick with I, I wonder about the two spelling and if they are different companies?

I will go and take another look at my Dyck, I may have spelled it incorrectly.

Brian, your tools are immaculate! So well kept and easily found! Congratulations!
Thanks for the pictures! Lots of memories in our tools...
CB, I took things apart as a kid but somehow never got them put back together!

I will go and take another look at my Dyck, I may have spelled it incorrectly.

This begs the question about the last time you saw it?

Some recent inexpensive Ebay purchases...