Forrest BAM Nut Tool - anyone want to part with one...?

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healyje

Trad climber

Portland, Oregon

Topic Author's Original Post - Apr 15, 2009 - 03:53am PT

Anyone have one of these (top unit in the photo below) they'd be willing to part with? This one will be going to the Nut Museum, but we are still looking for another for Marty Karabin's collection as well.

I personally don't have the discipline, obsession, or room in my basement to collect this stuff, but do, along with many others, pick things up when I can and variously steer them to the four big collectors out there (Marty, Stephane, Ken, and Gary) as a contribution to seeing our metallic legacy survive in as complete and researched a manner as possible.

climbrunride

Trad climber

Durango, CO

Apr 15, 2009 - 04:10am PT

What about MY collection? I want one too. :-(

But I agree that the Yosemite Archives (or whatever it is called) needs one more than I do. And Marty and Stephane can spend a whole lot more than I can on those goodies. But if there are FIVE of them out there, can I get one?????

-The Other Marty

healyje

Trad climber

Portland, Oregon

Topic Author's Reply - Apr 15, 2009 - 04:59am PT

Zombi, if you do and aren't attached to it that would be great - I know Marty would be most appreciative...

healyje

Trad climber

Portland, Oregon

Topic Author's Reply - Apr 15, 2009 - 05:33am PT

I should note this auction was congenially split by Stephane and Marty with the bottom two tools going to Marty. Both now have the middle tool and so each is looking for the other top & bottom tool - Marty is looking for a BAM tool (top) and Stephane one of the Salewa Leeper knock-offs (bottom).

If you have and can part with either please let me know, thanks...

Gunkie

climber

East Coast US

Apr 15, 2009 - 07:15am PT

That is like the best nut tool ever! A reasonable proxy is the Pika nut tool with that mini hammer. Although, I could never get that thing to hang off my harness very well.

I never understood the holes in the Salewa nut tool. What is that suppose to double for? Brass knuckles?

healyje

Trad climber

Portland, Oregon

Topic Author's Reply - Apr 16, 2009 - 09:09pm PT

Buuummmmpppppity...

RRK

Trad climber

Talladega, Al

Apr 16, 2009 - 09:53pm PT

Dirtineye's got mine - you should hit him up for it. I saw it in what's left of his gear box a couple of weeks ago. (I swapped him for one of those Russian titanium do-hickies and definitely got the better end of the bargain.) I had all sorts of trouble using the bam nut. I like to whop the end of the nut tool with the heel of my hand (finesse is for wimps) but was not able to use the bam nut in this manner because of the clip-in ring sticking out above the hammer head. Though you could drive a pin or two in a pinch, it's not much of a hammer really, and the head mushroomed if you really wailed on it. It was heavy... blah, blah, blah I could go on for quite awhile. BUT - it had a certain "gizmo" appeal that was irresistable to ol' Dirt - so I wound up with a space-age titanium gear-crusher for the price of an old Bam Nut. What a great country.

RRK

PS I did slide it deep into a horizontal crack and clip the head once - it worked fine as a hand-placed pin.

Salamanizer

Trad climber

Vacaville Ca,

Apr 16, 2009 - 10:10pm PT

Hrmmm...

Maybe we should have an ebay nut museum thread going, or at least some personal correspondence. I like to collect also and I'm certain I've bid against you or jacked up your winning bid quite substantially on a few occasions.

I nearly put a size-able bid on said nut tools. I passed on the Dolt nuts too much to my regret.

I'd hate to bid against you for something that's going to the Yosemite Museum. My stuffs probably going there eventually anyway and it just seems like kind of a waste.

healyje

Trad climber

Portland, Oregon

Topic Author's Reply - Apr 17, 2009 - 12:03am PT

Salamanizer,

Sent you an email. It's entirely possible we've both bid on things. I got the Dolt nuts today. I was getting them for Larry DeAngelo who still uses all the single hole Dolt and Clog gear fairly exclusively in his climbing. But it turns out Stephane has some big gaps in his Dolt collection so they're probably going his way instead. Marty apparently has them covered, though both he and Stephane appear to covet the non-anodized ones for some reason I don't get, but that's the reason they're the collectors and I'm not. Probably need to work that out between them as well.

Seems like pretty much everything, but Dolt Cobra hooks come through ebay if you wait long enough. These guys will have the holes in their collections filled sometime and things will be a lot easier on everyone else once they ease up.

healyje

Trad climber

Portland, Oregon

Topic Author's Reply - Apr 17, 2009 - 01:27am PT

RRK - thanks for the heads up, I'll give him a shout...

healyje

Trad climber

Portland, Oregon

Topic Author's Reply - Apr 17, 2009 - 06:25pm PT

Got the Chouinard Bashies covered, still after one of these babies...

Slabby D

Trad climber

B'ham WA

Apr 18, 2009 - 01:36am PT

I got one. But I kinda like it, and actually use it. What's it worth to this collector guy?

healyje

Trad climber

Portland, Oregon

Topic Author's Reply - Apr 18, 2009 - 04:36am PT

Slabby - Well, I personally wouldn't ever ask someone to part with a piece of gear they are actually using. Sort of how Stephane, Marty, and Ken cherish Dolt Trunuts and single hole Clogs and think no one should be scratching them up by using them. But I try to get out with Larry DeAngelo whenever I manage to get to RR and he still uses them almost exclusively and nothing gives me more absolute delight than seeing him on a new line with them - screw the scratches, full speed ahead (ok,so we're old - all ahead 2/3s). So unless you're really interested seeing having it preserved in one of these collections and aren't so attached to it as to have a hard time parting with it, then I'd say keep it.

If you are willing to part with it a donation would be great, but I will also check and see what can be offered for it. Stephane and Marty are just regular family guys financially, but with what I would guess are incredibly tolerant wives and a bad case of OCD. Me, I'm in the same boat, but incompetent to be a collector.

karabin museum

Trad climber

phoenix, az

May 21, 2009 - 12:30am PT

SlabbyD, You throw the candy out there like that, and then ask what its worth to the collector guy. It's worth the world, or until ebay lists another one. I have over 100 different nut tools and still seek the Forrest Bam nut tool. Even though I send a Xmas card every year to Bill, Rosa (his wife) holds the candy out in front of me as well and says "someday." GREAT! JUST GREAT!!

What is the nut tool worth to you is the question?

Marty