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Moses Yoder in White Pigeon, MI

>I think unless it is in a museum, it is much better if a tool can be used than to set it out to pasture just because it is old. Perhaps this is because I'm getting old myself. I thought about this while using my #41 plow plane to see how it works, but it ain't worth crap as a tool, so it just sets on the shelf now. But if I had dropped it and broke that nice long horn off the top of the handle or done worse, at least it would have died fighting.

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Ernie Miller Topeka

>What a drag I have an Atkins that is my fav also. I though bout you yesterday while trying to buy a chest of tools there was this big 4" slick with a perfect handle no rust and pretty as can be. the guy wouldn't sell it though all I got was a couple 66's and an 80. but that would have been your chisel.

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Todd O. Cronkhite Native of Maine

>Ahhhhhhhhhhhh well, thanks for the thought Ernie. Man, this place never ceases to amaze me. Here we've never met in person and uyet so many of us seeem to think about each other from time time to time. I have conversations with a lurker down hee in my area, and it just astounds me how well we recall who said what, who need whats, who doing what, etc, etc.

Thanks again for the thought Ernie, even tho the guy wouldn't sell, just knowing that you thunk of me at the time makes me kinda' goosebumpy. :~)

Todd O.

...did the same damn thing

Sandor in Boyds, MD

>I was inspecting a #12 saw that I had recently brought back to life and I was sighting down the blade to check for kinks, holding the toe end and gravity being what it is....

Right onto the concrete floor. The words I uttered were a little harsher than yours. Broke the lower horn clean off and dinged it good to boot. A clean repair with epoxy, but it'll always be there like a scar to remind me.

Then there was my first handplane. A #5 that I completely restored - surface ground all sides, bead blasted and re-jappaned (rustoleum), milled the bed and frog and polished everything. Before you guys jump on me, it was my first handplane and I don't do 'em like that any more... but now the good part. The day I was bringing it home from work (where I have access to a machine shop) I had it on top of a box as I was unloading it from the car and WHAM right to the concrete driveway. Cracked about an inch along the corner from the heel. Doesn't affect function, but I still look at it like I wounded it.

There are others too....the shame, the shame...

Sandor (who promises to be good to his tools)

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Ernie Miller Topeka

>I don't know any one else who has a thing for them. This one was the nicest I have seen in pictures or person. I should have looked for a makers mark.

Dang Sandor

Todd O. Cronkhite Native of Maine

>You have my permission to cry.

I once saw in an old magazine, I think it was a Popular Mechanics issure where they showd inventions of Yore. This once fellow had built a sef butt kicking machine. when you stood on it there was a wheel behind you that had perhaps half a dozen of what appeared to be shoe lasts attached to it. You leaned forward and turned a set of pedals that in turn spun the wheel behind you, and you had to position your self just so for the shoe lasts to make the proper contact. I don't think it was a very popular invention, but there are times I wish I had one. You?

Best be careful in the future Sandor as it sounds to me that you live in an area that has unusually high strength gravity.

Glad to know that I'm not the only butter-fingered bone brain stomping about on The Island. Thanks for sharing Sandor.

Todd O.