Vintage nut tool ID

I am trying to identify a few nut tools that I believe are all mid-80s era. The one on the left is a Leeper, but I'm not sure of the model (NT1 Hooker maybe?).  The middle is a Wild Country tool, also not sure of the model.  I think the one on the right is a Chouinard, but not 100% sure and no idea on the model.  Any nut tool experts out there know more about any of these?  I realize getting model-level info might be a reach, but I'd love to figure out exactly what these tools are before I add them to my vintage nut tool wind chime.

I think you are in the ballpark on all three.

The notch on the Leeper could be a continuation of Leeper's "Friend of a Friend" idea, allowing you to snag the trigger on older Friends.

A lot of early Wild Country's stuff was kind of frumpy.

And Chouinard might have kept the idea of having a mini hammer (tail end of tool) to set nuts, as much as he raved about Clean Climbing

LL Binerwrote:

I think you are in the ballpark on all three.

The notch on the Leeper could be a continuation of Leeper's "Friend of a Friend" idea, allowing you to snag the trigger on older Friends.

A lot of early Wild Country's stuff was kind of frumpy.

And Chouinard might have kept the idea of having a mini hammer (tail end of tool) to set nuts, as much as he raved about Clean Climbing

The mini hammer idea on the (putative) Chouinard is interesting, I didn't know what to make of that bulge.  

I was able to figure out that the Leeper is indeed a Hooker, based on this 1982 catalog page I found on an ebay auction:

I still use my WC nut key that I bought in 1986 -- identical to the one in your pic.  Not aware that it had a specific model name.  Maybe Stephane will chime in with the answer.

I believe I have the same one as on the right. Interested in the history too 

Left to right :

Leeper Hooker

Wild Country [Original] Nut Key (is mentioned in the first Wild Country catalog, 1983)

Chouinard H.T. Nut Tool (1987)

nutstorywrote:

Left to right :

Leeper Hooker

Wild Country [Original] Nut Key (is mentioned in the first Wild Country catalog, 1983)

Chouinard H.T. Nut Tool (1987)

As always . . . you are the source!

nutstorywrote:

Left to right :

Leeper Hooker

Wild Country [Original] Nut Key (is mentioned in the first Wild Country catalog, 1983)

Chouinard H.T. Nut Tool (1987)

Awesome!  Very good to know this, thank you.

I’m rather amused that my WC nut tool is considered “vintage”. 

Oddly pleasing designs.

I have to give a shout out to the neilico tool, it's clearly inspired by the others in this thread but with offset

https://neilico.myshopify.com/

The Neilico Nut Tool is missing...   

phylp phylpwrote:

I’m rather amused that my WC nut tool is considered “vintage”. 

Sorta begs the question about the owner (I have one too).

Skibowrote:

Sorta begs the question about the owner (I have one too).

Hahaha, yes that is true!  Never lost it all these years so never had to get another one.  

I actually gave myself a disgusting injury with that thing about ten years ago.  I had it clipped to my harness and sat down.  Somehow when I was sitting down, it flipped so the pointy bit was sticking up.  Then I went to get up, push myself up with the palm of my hand on the ground, and somehow impaled the fleshy part under my thumb.  It just punctured right in like a hot knife into butter, one of those things where you can see into the muscle and then it starts to bleed like a MF.  

That Wild Country was one of the first nut tools I bought. I plastic dipped the handle and strung it on cord. I actually still have it. It was an improvement from using a “Shelf bracket “ with a hole drilled in it!

jc5462wrote:

It was an improvement from using a “Shelf bracket “ with a hole drilled in it!

On my first trip to the Gunks, we used an aluminum shelf bracket filched from my dad's workbench -- no hole, just slipped it into the front pocket of my cut-offs.  Worked great, but I bought a nut key prior to trip #2 later that summer.

Skibowrote:

Sorta begs the question about the owner (I have one too).

Ha!

Ditto that.  I got my WC nut tool in the 83/84-ish timeframe.  Clipped to an old Robbins biner.  Still in use.