u/JStevenYork

So, after finding a 6" adjustable wrench from Diamond Calk Horseshoe Company, a manufactured I'd never heard of, less than two weeks later I've found ANOTHER one, 50 miles away from where I found the other, in a Goodwill store a couple blocks from my house! This time it's a 8" wrench, so I'm going for the set! Picture shows both wrenches, plus a Wizard 6" wrench that I've had for a while. I include it because it looks suspiciously similar to the Diamond Calk 6" wrench, though it was likely made 20 or so years later. "Wizard" is a house brand used by Western Auto stores, and could be made by a variety of manufacturers. I think Diamond Calk had been absorbed into other companies by then, but I wonder if the Wizard wrench could have been made in one of their old factories, or at least, using some of their old tooling?

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I was looking for this vintage 6" adjustable Wizard wrench today to post some pictures when I realized that it looked a LOT like the Diamond Calk wrench that I posted previously. Indeed, side by site they seem VERY similar, other than markings, and a slightly rougher finish inside the hanging hold on the Wizard wrench. Though, based on Alloy Artifacts, they were probably made 20 or so years apart (50s for the Wizard, 30s for the Diamond Calk) I have to wonder if they were made by the same company, or at least using the old Diamond Calk dies. Wizard was a registered house brand for the Western Auto store chain, so it could have been made by any number of companies. Anyway, when I spotted the "WIZARD" wrench in a thrift store back in the winter, I had to have it. What mechanic or tinkerer wouldn't want to own a WIZARD wrench!