THE PECK TOOL STORY For the last 86 years, The Peck Tool Company has been importing fine German woodworking hand tools. Many woodworking professionals are familiar with Rudy Peck, our founder. Rudolph Peck, "Rudy," was born in Frankfurt, Germany in 1910 and emigrated to New York in 1927. In 1929, while working as a Fuller Brush door-to-door salesman, a woman approached Rudy anxious to sell a German woodworking bench she had recently acquired. She asked Rudy if he knew anyone who might be interested in purchasing such an item. Determined to find a buyer for the woodworking bench, Rudy traveled to a nearby town where he came across a woodworking shop full of German woodworkers. They were delighted to discover German products in the U.S. and thus inquired about the availability of other … Read More >
