This is the new Huckberry x Ford toolbox, each is made by Bull Metal, a third-generation family-run metal shop based in Middletown, Connecticut from 22-gauge cold rolled stainless steel finished with a rust-proof blue powdercoat.
Toolboxes like this have been a mainstay of garages, sheds, and workshops for well over a century and counting. They’re designed to be the right size to carry all the essential tools for most jobs, as well as some other items like multimeters, etc.
This is the new Huckberry x Ford toolbox, each is made by Bull Metal, a third-generation family-run metal shop based in Middletown, Connecticut.
History Speedrun: Bull Metal
Bull Metal was founded in 1954 out of a barn in rural Connecticut. The company made a series of toolboxes, metal cabinets, electrical switchboard enclosures, storage cabinets, and more – all out of sheet metal.
The firm has now grown to a dedicated factory with 40,000+ square feet of floor space in Middletown, Connecticut. They build hundreds of products in a wide variety of sizes, styles, and colors – and importantly they still build them in the USA.
The Huckberry x Ford Toolbox
The Huckberry x Ford Toolbox is a new collaborative design, along with a series of other products, between popular outfitters Huckberry and the Ford Motor Co. It’s given a blue powder coat – the color most closely associated with Ford – and it has a retro-inspired design that’ll make it ideal for use with any vintage Ford.
As noted higher up, each of these toolboxes starts life as a stainless steel sheet of 22-gauge cold rolled steel. It’s then cut, shaped, and formed into the toolbox, with a full-length piano hinge provide uniform support for the toolbox lid.
Each of these toolboxes starts life as a stainless steel sheet of 22-gauge cold rolled steel, with a full-length piano hinge provide uniform support for the toolbox lid.
On the front there’s a classic strike and catch latch, and there is a swivel handle on top for easy transport even when it’s full of tools and heavy. It measures in at 15” long x 7” wide x 5½” deep, which works out to 38.1 cm long × 17.78 cm wide × 13.97 cm deep.
You can now get one direct from the Huckberry store here, they come with free US shipping, free US returns, and a best price guarantee.
Images courtesy of Huckberry
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