unabashed gloat long
walt quadrato
>After spending 3 days and 60 or so walking miles at Brimfield with not a lot to report, let's just say I was disappointed. So I figure; let's just hit the local market this morning for ha ha's. Well, this flea is decent for tools but never any great shakes; but it's small and easy to soak it in, in 15 minutes. So I start the walk......first aisle..nothing...second aisle...nothing...getting bored now....third aisle....some boxes of junk..gotta look in the boxes...#55 with all the parts..including blades for hollows and rounds & beader blades..in the same box a #71 early type with all the extras...bottom of the box..#66 fences & blades(gloatable price so I pick up the whole box )...few more aisles...#5 1/4 type 18 clean and ready to use..in the bag it goes....another aisle....searching diligently now.... WOW! a round side #604(haven't checked type yet) at a price no one can pass up. so in the bag again....more aisles of Chinese trash...then from a rust dealer I know.."hey, what do you make of this?" pulling a plane out from under the fromt seat of his van...a nice G-6..Stanley guage plane..and it's corrugated!..Well at his price I can't just leave it there ...By now my arms are tired, so I figure to dump this back in the truck...on my way back, i stop off at another dealer I know to shoot the breeze...looking around his tables I come across a really old carrige-makers scraper plane..gotta get this for my collection..cheap! May use this as a template for a few scrapers I'll make. Still haven't gotten back to the car..a few tables on I spy a nice rosewood and brass double armed marking gage..for less than a cup of DD coffee..what the heck! In the bag
So the moral of the story is...there's always another tool around the corner..and as a good friend says.."sometimes the bear eats you...sometimes you eat the bear" Boy, did he taste good!
Still digging stuff out of that first box! and believe it or not I passed on a lot more stuff including a #45 with one box of blades, a Sargent #5, a Sargent #4, a #18 block, and various and sundry #4's and 5's..so there's plenty left for anyone else.
walt ( tired, happy and thankful)
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