antiquing

Re: antiquing

Todd O. Cronkhite Maine Native now in Jax Fl.


>Gary,

Have you tried soaking it with something like PB Blaster, than wire brushing it and than using it? If nothing else you can always zap it. Are you familiar with that?

All good scores for a buck a piece, that's very hard to do in a anteek shop.

Todd O.

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woodburnbob


>If I got a free but rusty #49, I think I'd try Boggs. I've read recommendations for several years but haven't yet sent them anything yet.


Boggs

Re: antiquing...

Dave Thompson


>I did some antique mall tool shoping this past week as well. I figure the sellers either know their prices well, and price their tools such that their shelves show inventory, or else, they price them will-nilly, and tool hounds buy the good and mediocre deals leaving the out-of-wack prices for the rest. I passed up alot of tools that were 2-4 times going prices (relative to e-bay). The kicker for me was seeing some woodie jointers with blown out side wedge holders priced at $60.

I picked up a ~6 foot 2 person crosscut saw for $28. Higher than e-bay, but I didn't have to pay shipping. I have a 2.5' diameter ash tree that fell in my back yard during some recent tornado action this spring that I haven't been able to do much with because my chain saw is on the short side. I figured I'd give it a go and see if I can salvage a couple slabs of ash. I saw St. Roy demonstrate how easy it is to split logs in the woods... Though he did have them pre-split so that he could show it off in his <30 minute show. ;-)

I also came home with yet another MF#2 drill in good condition, just with gummed up oil in the gears that a few squirt of WD-40 cleaned right up. I have a weakness for these. I got it for a so-so price of $18...but the kicker was I could test out ahead of time and see that it didn't have a wobbly handle. I didn't have to pay e-bay shipping on it.

fwiw, Most hardware stores sell wood and/or plastic handles for your Nicholson rasp. They're almost as inexpensive as your rasp. Nice find on the gouge. Some sand paper in a dowel rod, should clean that up just fine.

enjoy,

Dave

Re: antiquing

Todd Hughes


>I always stop in antique stores and it is a rather rare one i don't find somthing to buy and remember I am most likley buying it to resell so price has to be good enough to be able to do that. While it is true often many things are on the moon overpriced in my experance it is just about as common to find things underpriced.If you are looking for cheap undervauled rough transitional planes maybe not the place to shop but some of my better buys have come out of shops. One of the funnier ones that sticks out was when I bought about a half doz. nice everlasts chisels which the seller had labled " Wedges" for a $1 ea.

....Have to remember if you don't go fishing hard to catch a fish, eh?......Todd

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Tony Zaffuto


>Fully agree with Todd's point. No more than a year ago I bought a Stanley 750 5/8" chisel that appeared virtually unused. Red handle was nearly 99%, steel was bright. Cost was higher than I normally pay-$10.00. Found it in a tool guy's chisels bargain bin. Within the past month I bought two Witherby/Winstead chisels-3/8" & 1/2" for $3.00 each. Handles were rough but the steel was about 3/4 length. Made a couple of new handles and I'm golden.