My first tool sale *LINK*
Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA
>- that's as opposed to garage sale, flea market, or junque shop. The local Woodcraft sponsored a tool sale in their lot this morning, and Matt Curley, a fellow Islander (he's the official one: gotta hat), and I had a great couple of hours looking at stuff, including some droolworthy bits whose prices we didn't even ask (Matt may be submitting a pic of one for Sightings). I got some nice stuff, and, after selling a surplus block plane and a Millers Falls version of a Surform to one seller, spent just a few dollars net (I am NOT going to mention actual prices, to discourage Todd from posting that he is chased down the street by presentable young women just begging him to take a bucketful of the tools mentioned so that they can die happy):
A Stanley No. 51 spokeshave, bringing my collec - no, no, toolkit - up to nine, I think. Well, I didn't have that style, so I can justify it...
A couple of Jorgensen hold-down clamps (see below), something I'd never seen in the wild, and at a price that made them hard to resist (got three, sold one to Matt).
A Marples wood threading tap and screwbox, not much use showing on it. Incredible primitive-looking tap, screwbox is just that - a box, no handles or anything. 3/4" size, which is smaller than I'd have liked if I coulda selected.
PLUS: It turns out there's a large enough local contingent of P.A.S.T. members that there will be a sale in August nearby, AND the seller who told us about it lives in my town.
I have GOT to find more space; hard enough to walk into my shop now.
The Jorgensen clamps I got