boxes of rust

7/11/04, 12:46 PM #1

Jack Guzman from Maine
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boxes of rust

Jack Guzman from Maine

>Well,I'm still rummaging around in this box of rust I bought for what I thought at the time was way too much money.

I paid $45 for two boxes full of rusty tools.He wanted more.I saw bench planes,saws,coping saws,etc..I think what really decided me was the 39 3/8 plow.

When I got it home I got a reality check. This stuff was mostly junk. Oh well, I'll go through it and see what I can make of it.

After a couple weeks of gradually going through it and cleaning stuff I guess I didn't do all that badly.Besides the 39 3/8 (only accessory there is the iron)I have now a complete working Millers Falls 56B,that Board of Education #5 I mentioned in an earlier post,a fine type 12 #3 and I just finished derusting and identifying a type 6 #7. Nothng wrong with it either except the tote and handle are rough and dry,the sweethart era iron is worn down to the keyhole and the front tote screw is missing.

I still haven't gone over the saws but they don't look too promising except for one disston crosscut.

I guess I feel a little better about spending so much on rust and you know I'll never do that again...Jack

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I am a carpenter by trade.Also a handyman/Jack -of-all-trades.I work around my neighborhood mostly helping people keep up their old houses.I have a fairly large woodworking shop in my house where I work with both hand and power tools. At the moment I'm focusing on Windsor chairs building.I will build most anything if needed. I'm always learning,adapting,changing trying to broaden my woodworking skills.I work mostly with hand tools in my shop but will use power if it is a better way to get the desired result. My wife,Donna,and I live in the woods of Maine with our dogs,cats,and birds. We have 5 grown kids and six grandchildren. Woodcentral has been central to my growth as a woodworker. I pass through this place every day.

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7/11/04, 2:13 PM #2

Ernie Miller
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>How many times have I told myself that? or worse yet after not buying have I kicked myself for not buying? there is another box of rust with your name on it

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7/11/04, 10:19 PM #3

Todd O. Cronkhite Native of Maine
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>Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh well Jack, bummer that there wasn't a few #1's, at the bottom of the box, but it still sounds as if you didn't make out to badly. As Ernie said, don't be to hasty NOT to buy another box of rust as that will surely be the time that you'll regret it for the rest of you days. you'll soon get over it if you spend a bit to much on a bunch of junk, but you'll never forget "the one that got away". How was it that you bought this box of rust? At an Auction was it? No chance of preview? I dunno Jack, I still think that you didn't get hurt none. Heck that #3 alone should just about break you even.

Todd O.

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7/12/04, 12:25 AM #4

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>Hi Todd,

I was surprised when I saw an ad in the shoppers guide for hand tools. That was rare in itself for here.Then when I got to the guys house I was amazed at how much there was.(A wooden chest and cardboard box both full)I was tired cause I went after work and when I started to rummage my interest got piqued but I was too tired to dig deeper so I took a gamble.

Two mistakes,I shouldn't have gone so tired and shouldn't have taken so much cash. I'm usually cheaper than that.

Also,when I said I'll never do that again,my fingers were crossed.

Crackerjack

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I am a carpenter by trade.Also a handyman/Jack -of-all-trades.I work around my neighborhood mostly helping people keep up their old houses.I have a fairly large woodworking shop in my house where I work with both hand and power tools. At the moment I'm focusing on Windsor chairs building.I will build most anything if needed. I'm always learning,adapting,changing trying to broaden my woodworking skills.I work mostly with hand tools in my shop but will use power if it is a better way to get the desired result. My wife,Donna,and I live in the woods of Maine with our dogs,cats,and birds. We have 5 grown kids and six grandchildren. Woodcentral has been central to my growth as a woodworker. I pass through this place every day.

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7/12/04, 3:12 PM #5

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>To much cash? you have got to learn the art of peigon holeing. First of all us bottom feeders never carry much cash we just don't have it. and secocand if we do it is a few ones here in the wallet a couple fives in one pocket maybe a ten in the other fold up a twenty in with you DL. so when you pull out you wallet you don't have enough money to pay full price. tell them you are a user not a collector and that is all you heve and cuss the collectors who get every thing. If he looks like a working stiff and you have to dig deeper tell him that now you are diging into your six pack money and you have had a hard day or that this is the money for your kids? Then there are the people who won't go down for nothing make them throw somthing else in with it to get a better deal. After all this is a game and you have to play to win. I have even gone to sales that have tools the night befor tell the people that I have to work the next day That I am a user and the dealers get there early and allways beat you out making you pay more than the fair value for tools. It works some times.

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7/12/04, 4:30 PM #6

Jack Guzman from Maine
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good advice

Jack Guzman from Maine

>Ernie, that sounds like some pretty sound advice. I will keep it in mind as I scrounge.No wait..Explore sounds better.---Jack

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I am a carpenter by trade.Also a handyman/Jack -of-all-trades.I work around my neighborhood mostly helping people keep up their old houses.I have a fairly large woodworking shop in my house where I work with both hand and power tools. At the moment I'm focusing on Windsor chairs building.I will build most anything if needed. I'm always learning,adapting,changing trying to broaden my woodworking skills.I work mostly with hand tools in my shop but will use power if it is a better way to get the desired result. My wife,Donna,and I live in the woods of Maine with our dogs,cats,and birds. We have 5 grown kids and six grandchildren. Woodcentral has been central to my growth as a woodworker. I pass through this place every day.

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7/13/04, 1:07 AM #7

Todd O. Cronkhite Native of Maine
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Shoppers Guide?

Todd O. Cronkhite Native of Maine

>what the heck are you doing mucking about in those tourist papers? Get yerself a copy of Uncle Henrys. Last time I saw an Uncle Henrys it had gone up from .25 to $1.25 IIRC, and a quadruplied in size. that was in '96. Gads, I've been away to long. :~(

Todd O.

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7/13/04, 2:23 AM #8

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>I was wondering how long it would take you to react to Shoppers Guide. I get it in my po box and thumb through it when there's nothing else to read. Thus my surprise at actually seeing handtools for sale in it.

Uncle henry's costs too much and it's way too time consuming to browse through.---Jack

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I am a carpenter by trade.Also a handyman/Jack -of-all-trades.I work around my neighborhood mostly helping people keep up their old houses.I have a fairly large woodworking shop in my house where I work with both hand and power tools. At the moment I'm focusing on Windsor chairs building.I will build most anything if needed. I'm always learning,adapting,changing trying to broaden my woodworking skills.I work mostly with hand tools in my shop but will use power if it is a better way to get the desired result. My wife,Donna,and I live in the woods of Maine with our dogs,cats,and birds. We have 5 grown kids and six grandchildren. Woodcentral has been central to my growth as a woodworker. I pass through this place every day.

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