The Marlin Firearms Company purchased the Ideal Reloading Tool Company from John Barlow early in the twentieth century and then dumped it shortly before the US entry into WWI. It languished in the wilderness under a guy named Phineas Talcott until the Lyman Gunsight Company purchased the company and restarted production in the 1920's.
Talcott, it is said, sold the odds and ends of Ideal's remaining inventory, but apparently did no aggressive marketing, or production of new tools, at least in any quantity. A "Talcott-Marked" Ideal tool would be a prize for Ideal tong tool aficionados.
So it was with some joy that Townsend Whelen, in the middle of the Talcott hiatus, announced in The American Rifleman that the Modern-Bond Company had stepped in to supply the handloader with new loading tools.
The new offering was the Bond Model B, a noticeably oversized and overweight tong tool, made of brass, that used dies and attachments in the same manner as the Ideal 310 tools. In this respect, the Bond B anticipated the Ideal 310 Tool, with a standard set of handles and caliber changes by changing attachments, by thirty years. The Bond attachments were on the same scale as the handles, without doing anything that the smaller, lighter Ideal tongs and dies did not do just as well.
The Modern Bond dies were also used in the later Model C, a strong contender for the worst loading press ever designed. The Bond B and C did have a shell mouth chamfering attachment, which was something of an innovation beyond the Ideal tools.
Anyway, here's my Bond Model B, guaranteed to give the user a bone-crushing Macho-Man handshake as a side benefit.
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You can see the scaled up size of the Modern Bond compared to the Ideal here. Definitely for "Large" glove sizes.
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The Bond Model B apparently went out of production in the Thirties. Once the Lyman/Ideal tong tools resumed sales, the writing was on the wall. Still, like all other Modern Bond reloading stuff, they were very well made.