Your best ebay bargains???

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John K in Hastings, MN

>Not a hand tool, but I got a vintage 1900 36" bandsaw with full guarding and ball bearing conversion for $46. Needed motor and bladeguides. Not running yet, but it won't take much.

John

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Wiley Horne--Glendora CA

>Millers Falls 772 brace for $20. A later model, but dead mint.

One other thing I just got. Really makes me happy. It's a Stanley 82 scraper--beautiful shape like it had been in a drawer since the 1930s. Buy a scraper at Home Depot, and you'll get a stamped blade on the end of a stick. This thing has four complex iron castings; a sophisticated tilt mechanism; a shock absorber like a bicycle; big fat maple wooden parts; knurled lever cap screw--everything on this guy says 'heavy duty'. They don't make em like this anymore. If I think of Ebay, I think of being able to get a market price on a tool like this.

Wiley

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Neal (San Jose)

>While completing my Fine Woodworking collection, I accidentially mis-spelled (not all that unusual) Fine WoodWorking in the search, and found one of the first four issues also mis-spelled by the seller. I was the only bidder, and got it for the opening bid of a dollar. These issues usually go for $25 and up.

I also got a type one #92 rabbet plane real cheap. Type ones don't have the round thingey in the front, and neither do the late English production. I sent the seller an email asking if it was old or new, and he said it was old. I guess everyone else assumed it was the late English version.

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Rossmoor Galoot

>On the neander side I snagged a Stanley 65 low angle block for $22 including shipping. The seller had mis-identified it as a #18.

I also just purchased a tailed apprentice within the last month. I nabbed a Grizzly 14" bandsaw with riser block, an upgraded Baldor 1-1/2 hp motor, cool blocks, an assortment of blades and a mobile base for $260. I picked it up local so I paid no shipping!

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Derek Cohen (in Perth, Australia)

>About a year ago I bought a Stanley #62 for about $70 (snagged in Australia in OZ dollars). This restored very well and I use it all the time now.

It is difficult for non-USA residents to do well on eBay because of shipping costs. And if the items are offered locally (in Oz), then there is always some local twit who will bid the item way beyond reasonable value. The market here is small and the offerings relatively few. I have made some good purchases in the past year of chisels (Witherby's and Japanese) on eBay during what appears to have been a period of lowered interest ($10 - $15 per), and the shipping costs on these are relatively small.

Regards from Perth

Derek

best of all is...

John Longwitz-Doraville, GA

>...more than a few of them. Stanley #7 type 9 that shows it was well cared for. Many Buck Bros. and Charles Buck chisels. Brace in well made wooden case with many gimlet type and twist drill type bits along with countersinks and flat blade screwdriver bits. Early Disston backsaws. I don't keep good account of the prices but these, and many more, are worth far more to me than I paid. I get a link to the past that is priceless.

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wayne

>A couple bargains come to mind: A Millers Patent #43 in superb shape for $50 (buy it now), and a Blaisdell's marking gage with a rare pencil holder feature for $34. Wayne

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Tony Z.

>Not tool related, but it was from Ebay! I collect civil war and civil war veteran memoribilia. Several years ago I bid on and won what was described as a few veteran "ribbons" for a rediculously low price. When the item arrived, I discovered I bought a complete collection of what some old guy accumulated through his years of life left after the civil war--easily worth twenty or thirty times what I paid, if not much more. Don't know how this one slipped by the serious collectors!

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Skip in Falls Church

>I picked up a Harvey Peace 14" back saw circa 1890 for $2.50 plus $5.00 shipping. It looked like crap with a lot of rust and some pitting along the spine but not any lower. The handle is pretty much intact but pretty worn so I rehandled it. It's a really great saw.

Skip

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Jim Toews - Walla Walla, WA

>I was the only bidder on a Stanley #8C in near mint condition, so I got it for the openning bid of $19.95. I guess it was because the picture was very poor. It has become one of my favorite planes.

Cheers!

Jim

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Bob Hackett

>1 3/4" James Swan gouge and 2" Merrill chisel both sold as "coping chisels" both over 12" length of steel including sockets.

A 2" D R Barton socket gouge that`s over a foot long thru the flute which came with a group of turning tools.

A beautiful 2" Charles Buck in cannel gouge,8" of good steel.

A Mathieson 1 1/4 "Jack plane" with a brass sole that was sold as a jack because somebody stamped JACK in the replacement wedge(it has a new matching wedge now but I kept the JACK wedge).

Most recently a 10" Whitherby drawknife that sharpened and cleaned up wonderfully and still has the red lacquer on the handles.An incentive from SWMBO to get back to work.

None of these cost more than $20 unless you count the shipping for my JACK plane which came from England.

All of these pale in comparison to Moses` $63 603 which came with a complimentary toolbox(full).I don`t know if Moses is just being modest or just doen`t want to see us all choke a second time.;^)

Mainely,Bob-Who doesn`t want to think about all the times he was burned,and burned HARD before learning how the game is played.

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Don Thompson - Cutler Ridge, Florida

>I got a Stanley 190W, virtually unused (still has fragments of the decal on the tote) for $35.

Best sale was a $5 paperback that went for over $100.

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Ted Shuck, Centennial, CO

>Spiers dovetailed infill panel plane for $90, but it did turn out to be a project...

Stanley #78, circa 1910, mint in box for $25.

These made up for several "less than described" purchases.

Ted

Sweet!

Steve Kubien

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Steve Kubien

>$18USD got me a 28" D-8 thumbhole ripsaw, a #65 Atkins 11pt crosscut in fabulous condition and an 'unidentified" crosscut saw. Turned out to be a D-8 with a perfect handle and reasonable etch once the surface rust was removed. Did I mention that all of these arrived really sharp and well set?

I was pretty happy.

Steve Kubien

Chisels and a saw *LINK*

Pam Niedermayer - Austin, TX

>About 3 years ago, when I started buying old tools on ebay, I got 3 sets of great old chisels in short order (Barton, Buck, Swan, Witherby, Addis, Dastra, Pexto, etc.), at the average price of $3 per. At the time it didn't seem like a bargain, exactly, but it sure does now.

But the best in terms of overall satisfaction, now and at the time, was the maebiki, a huge Japanese rip saw. I'd been searching the world for one for 1-1/2 years. The very few that showed up on ebay were snapped away. Even when I finally reconciled myself to bidding $300-400, someone else would always pay more. Then for some reason, perhaps a mid-week auction, a new seller, whatever, I got a good one for $80, an antique that was a bit rusty, but it worked on the first log I attacked with it.

Pam


Maebiki

Wow - how about a pic?

Jesse in Maryland

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Scott Burr in Ben Lomond CA

>Well that would have to be the Norris A51 that came from down under. Labled as a A51 plane on the bay. Nobody paied attenion to it. I got it for $150.00+ shipping;)

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Jim in Burlington Ontario

>A Poitras shaper. Now made by General and lists for 7500.00 for 355.00 no shipping in next to mint shape only used by Menonites to make a few stairs. Hand tool wize I'm still down having bought more junk than good.

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Dale Stansbery

>No great buys, but I sold a $10 pre Stanley wooden Gage No 4 for $150 on Ebay. BTW. if any one is looking for good quality Stanley #4's there appear to be a bunch listed right now, and prices look low.

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Todd Hughes

>I don't buy much off ebay but do sell some on it, try to keep 30-40 things up at a time. Have done VERY well selling on it, wouldn't know where to start.Guess the best deal was a K&E Slide Rule. I made a pile of tools out of an old tool chest at an auction and just as the auctioner was getting to it I saw this slide rule, thought it was a little different and put it in my pile. My friend dr. jim asked me why i was even fooling with it but I had noticed that the rough box it was in had been made out of a regular K&E slide rule box that had been turned inside out, figure must be an uncommon rule if they didn't make a dedicated box for it. Got the pile for $100, had a desirable stanley rule in it that everybody was after.Guy bidding against me had a Walters guide in his back pocket.Put the slide rule, which was for checking the flow of sewage, on ebay and got just under $2,000 for it. Rest of the tools brought me about $300 .Figured i got the slide rule for free....Once bought a bunch of stone chisels of an old slow head for less then $20 and sold them for over $1,000!....Could go on and on!

One thing I do look for on ebay is Enamel Jewelery from Norway and once found a real nice David Andersen ring a woman in Sweden was selling and didn't know what it was or described it very well.Still wasn't cheap but i did like it....Never bought any tools from it, truthfully very rarely even look at them on it......Todd

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John K in Hastings, MN

>The cast iron table is 30x40" and weighs about 200 pounds on its own. Good thing it tilts.

John

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jared

>The best thing that ever happened to me on ebay was a couple of years ago, you could get a mastercard beanie baby absolutely free for opening a ty credit card account. I got 3 of them for nothing except the trouble of filling out an online credit card application and sold them for $90 each, good cash for buying more tools and wood. Jared

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Gretchen

>Recently, I purchased a 24" Starrett 132 level, new in the box for $89.00 (shipping included). I priced this level in the Tools for Working Wood catalog at $192.00 (before shipping).