Red Devil is a manufacturer of caulking, glazing, sealants and related surface preparation tools for glaziers, painters and masons.
They are a privately owned family business with manufacturing facilities in Pryor, Oklahoma.
[2] The company was founded as Smith & Hemenway Company, in 1872 by Landon P. Smith and John Francis Hemenway in Hill, New Hampshire.
[3][4] During a trip to Sweden, Smith heard a blacksmith call sparks "those little red devils" and he named the tool after that phrase.
[5] In 1932, general manager George Ludlow Lee, Sr. acquired Vesco Tools Company's line of wood scrapers.