Recent finds

Re: Recent finds

Todd Hughes

>Got up Sunday at 3:30 and we left my gal Joannes house at 5:00 and drove about 50 mi. over to the flea market between Baltimore and Annapolis getting there while it was still dark.Hunted for a couple hours and only tool I found was a Stanley 42X saw set which I bought for $2.Didn't find much anything else either, just a schrade knife and a pretty nice boat compass.....Boy it sucks living in old tool Hell! .....Todd

Sickness

Jim in Burlington On

>You got out of bed at 3:30 in the Am and left to go rust hunting. Hmm you'd better see the dr about that and take her along :)

Re: Recent finds

Mike G in SC

>Well it's been kind of dry around here lately in old tool hell south. The vise and C clamps came from a different auction than the tool box and stone. They came from the tool room of a sewing plant auction. My wife bought 9 pallets of serger thread, buttons and zippers. She's already tripled her money and she's only got rid of one pallet so far. But I'm about tired of counting buttons and zippers

3:30 AM!!!!!!!

Steve Kubien

>You're nuts. Oh sure, you manage to find all kinds of good stuff that the rest of us drool over (what don't you have in your collection?) but 3:30am? In the morning? The only way I see that hour is coming at it from the wrong side but then I sleep the rest of the day away.

Steve Kubien

Re: 3:30 AM!!!!!!!

Todd Hughes

>At least around here if you don't get to the flea markets early you might as well stay home because all the good stuff will be bought.Even sat. I think I was probably beat out on a few things by guys that got there befor me.I did see a tool man I know buy a nice small anvil as soon as I got to the market still in the dark.We stopped at a McDs for a quick breakfast and I told Joanne that probably cost me a good buy or two.Truthfully though didn't seem to be as many people with good stuff as the week befor when I did pretty good. Even scooped a guy by buying up a nice WW II German right in front of him for $30 as he waited for me to put it down. If I had slept in I wouldn't have got it and my sleeping in would have cost me at least a couple $100 out of my pocket then just on that item , never mind what I would lost on the other stuff I probably wouldn't have gotten. Week befor Joanne didn't buy this nice indian blanket for $20 she puts it down and I stood there while this guy gets it befor I could and I ended up buying it off him for $60 just 10 min. after he bought it.Just a few min. earlier and I would have saved myself $40

.....Lots of people get up very early to go to work.I'm pretty lucky as I only need a few hours sleep a night , don't even own an alarm clock and never needed one to get up....Todd

Re: Recent finds

Moses Yoder in White Pigeon, MI

>I found a number of salmon at the end of my fish pole this past weekend. Lost 4 or 5 on Saturday before landing one, then Sunday morning hooked 2 and landed 2.

... only tool I found was a Stanley 42X,,,,

Cooper Suter

>Uh...., Todd..., would it be possible to post an image of that saw set?

W/..um... "your gal Jazz" holding it.

Have her hold it "higher up" if you know what I mean.

No! Not that high.

A little lower.

OK that's good.

Now switch to the wide angle.

Just cause it isn't a 4' saw doesn't mean we aren't always interested in a pic.

Thanks, Coop

Late sophomoric comment contest entry?

Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA

>Let's give this poor woman a break - between finding great tools for Todd and generally keeping him from going completely over the edge, she may not have much time for modeling.

Yep, Them Germans can be Pricey if'n

Bob Hutchins in central Texas

>you ain't quick!

BobH, duckin' and runnin'

Re: ... only tool I found was a Stanley 42X,,,,

Dale Stansbery

>Hmmmm, Coop, you just reminded me of the Ebay seller "mknherhappy"'s listings. Wonder how I remembered that one. I think Todd has some potential with Miss Jazz if she'll co-operate.

Ahhh yes, I remember that seller...

Scott Burr in Ben Lomond CA

>Have a feeling that pair was manufactured. Looks to me like Ms. Jazz's are the real thing...

All that just so...

Bob Hackett

>You can say she has a nice set?

I like the way you think Coop.

Now about that pic...

Mainely,Bob-Still rolling his head back and forth and wondering why some folks get all the luck.Guess it`s cause Todd gets up WAY earlier than me.;^)

Actually....

Todd Hughes

>I went with Joanne not the Miss Jazz [Julie] to the flea market Sunday. Julie went to a different flea market up in Del. and told me she did pretty good making me sort of wish I had gone up there with her instead of the one I went to by Baltimore...I used to go to this Del. flea market everyweek but Fri. - Sun. are Joannes days now and since she lives about 1 1/2 hrs. south of the Market makes it hard to go up, though Julie is always still trying to talk me into it.....All of us are supposed to take the train up together to the big NYC flea market next month which should be interesting.If I find any good tools I will be sure to post a photo ! ....Todd

Next September we should all go w/Moses...........

cooper suter

>.......at least he's catching some fish.

It's been slow for me, mostly due to not looking.

Did pickup a tool chest.

This chest of tools illustrates not only my slim pickings of late, but the average state of "Grandpa's Complete Toolchest™" as I find them.

As the story goes (and I believe it), this chest was passed from grandpa (or maybe great grandpa) to mom, to the son who I got it from. Bear in mind, the son is in his fifties.

When he called the guy said it was from his English grandpa (or great) who was a cabinet maker, and had probably brought them from the old country.

Everything in it's American.

Not much to look at, neither the tools or my available females to be photographed w/them. That'd be Pumpkin and Aoife (pronounced afuh, some Irish princess/warrior name dredged-up by my daughters and wife).

I buy a fair number of "Grandpa's Complete Toolchest's™", and most of them run about like this.

What's missing varies, but they're normally far from complete.

It's the rare occasion when there's actually something knockout in the chest, normally it's a conglomeration of various "stuff". Usually any value is in the quantity of average stuff, not in a good piece.

What's missing in this one? Alot; no layout/measuring tools, saws, hammers, iron planes, block planes, a plow plane, a complete set of moulding planes, the rest of the bench chisels, a drill, a brace, bits, etc.

What'd I get? Nothing spectacular, and mostly rough to dogmeat condition wise. Woodie jointer, jack, and smoother. Various woodie moulders, mostly junked, the best'd be a Sandusky fluting plane, triple boxed. A lot of wooden shaves, including a travisher, mostly user made, and alot from coarse wood (maybe oak or such). A handfull of chisels and turning tools, mostly used-up. A pair of dividers, a 4" drawknife, a perfect handled screwdriver w/the wings, an early Rule and Level turnscrew, but w/a busted handle, a spoon bit, etc.

I'd say it's even money that the vintage Warner Swasey wooden parts crate I threw some of the loose stuff to haul will bring better money than any single tool I got.

Can't say I drove home smiling, but I enjoyed myself.

I'll make a few bucks, and I HAD to go look, this might have ended up being the chest w/my center wheel plow in it.

Coop

the best of the worst

cooper suter

>This'd be as good as it got out of this box.

Three ok moulders, but all w/hang holes.

Miscellaneous turning tools, but used hard. The best is something I'm not familiar w/. It's the fourth from the right w/out a handle. The profile looks like the bits from the old mortising machines; square w/ straight cutting edge, and turned-up edges.

Rough chisels, best'd be the rosewood handled gouge.

Spoon bit, clean.

A #75, need I say more?

A travisher, and a concave shave. Travisher's being glued back together as I write.

4" Jennings drawknife.

Perfect handled "Sixty Six" screwdriver.

Etc.

When this is the "good" stuff, it ain't to good.

Oh well, hope springs eternal.

Gotta look at an estate garage Friday, and another "Grandpa's Complete Toolchest™" on Saturday, maybe my luck will change.

coop

Can`t be a "Grandpa`s Complete Toolchest".

Bob Hackett

>Where`s the wood handled pipe wrench,monkey wrench,water pump pliers,2 mismatched pieces of formerly galvinized pipe and the obligatory vintage coffee can of assorted hardware to include at least 1 1/2 LBs of old rusted car parts(one of them being a worn out exhaust valve from a flathead engine,preferably a tractor)?

MB

Re: Next September we should all go w/Moses.......

Todd Hughes

>Last week a friend told me about a local guy that had a tool chest with lots of planes he was trying to sell. Never got up with him since I wasn't home when he called and I found out yesterday he took them to my weekly auction instead.Had about 30 mostly molding planes and some etc. I looked though it all and pulled out 15 of the best planes along with some other stuff including a clean Disston back saw a big slick and a big tappered auger for a brace. The planes I left ranged from "OK but not much" to firewood. The ones I pulled out had some nice Phila. ones with good profiles including a strange low angle hollow molder [never seen one like it befor]. As the auctioners were getting close to it a fellow pulled out the big tappered auger to buy seperat which surprised me as minimal bid is $20.Later I asked him if he makes chairs, [would be a great tool for that] and he told me no he digs up indian artifacts and was going to use it for that[!] Anyway I got all that I pulled out for $50 while what was left went for a stupid $100+. Sure couldn't see that , but that is how auctions are very often. Am glad now that the seller never did get up with me as I think I made out better this way.

...Also got at the auction a big PEXTO stake plate and 5 stakes for $50. On the same table was a BIG pile of probably 15 wood working vices, with a Tin Machine on the bottom[and who knows what else as hard to see].All american old quality ones , looked nice though dirty and some rust. Figured all this stuff came out of some school. I really didn't want to buy the vices, esp. since I wasn't in my truck but in my small Honda. The mountain of vices sold for $70 which I thought was a good deal...But big and heavy...Todd

Stake plate? Whatsthat?

Steve Kubien

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Whatsthat?...Have a look...  *LINK*

Scott Burr in Ben Lomond CA

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Stake plate

Heres mine....and

Todd Hughes

>Heres a photo of the set I got yesterday setting on my "outside" bench [just ain't got around to putting it on the back porch yet , snow didn't seem to hurt it to much!]

Was very surprised to see the guy in the above link talk about building a stake plate which has square non tapered holes.Guess you can draw anything but I have no doubt he never made a plate like this and used it with a stake. The shanks on these stakes unlike those on anvil hardies are tapered and if you use them in a hole that isn't tapered [like an anvil hardy hole] they will get wedged in tight right quick. Having the hole tapered allows you to tap them out easly and makes it so they don't get wedged in. I once bought a anvil where the slow head had put a small stake in the hardy hole where it wedged in and then he basicaly riveted it in when he tried to tap it out....I used up several months of my cussing allotment befor getting it out ...Todd

".....the..pipe wrench,monkey wrench...."

Cooper Suter

>Got 'em.

An easy 20lbs of misc. metal junk.

Coop

Dat explains dat. tanks

Steve Kubien

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that would be " Helmet"

Todd Hughes

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