Est. 1998 — 27 years of woodworking knowledge
Todd Hughes
Moses Yoder in White Pigeon, MI
>I am keeping my eye on your $40 investment. I thought you were pretty optimistic about what the actual selling price would be but I guess not. Live and learn. I'll let you buy a round when it's all over and done. Let's see, I drink about $20 worth of Starbucks coffee beans every month, (my only vice that I am aware of) so if I stopped drinking coffee I could buy a plane just like that one in about 10 years. I think I'll just stick with the coffee.
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Todd O. Cronkhite Maine Native, Presently Away
>Todd,
Link to the auction. Only linking to a live auction because it was mentioned already.
Nice Plane
And here I was hoping
Bill Houghton, overcast in Sebastopol, CA
>that we'd all (well, the men amongst us) outgrown such behavior.
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Todd Hughes
>Well with my math I figure if you use $20 worth of coffee beans a month it should only take two months of going with out to pay for this plane like I did.....just got to get lucky and have one "sent" to you by the rust gods...or in this case the maybe the 96 percent finish excellent condition tool gods, eh?
I've never drank a single cup of coffee in my life , don't drink alcohol or smoke either, guess my only real vices are women and buying junk !.....Todd
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Kevin French, Antrim, NH
>I've never drank a single cup of coffee in my life , don't drink alcohol or smoke either, guess my only real vices are women and buying junk !
Wonder what women see in you?
The Stanley 196 sold
Todd Hughes
>Guess it went for about what I thought it would though have to admit I was hoping for a little bit more....OH well
.... There was another one on ebay last week that never made the opening bid of $1,250 [ I started mine at $7.51 with no reserve]....Very poor photos, not very talked up and high opening bid probably doomed that auction......Todd
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Todd O. Cronkhite Maine Native, Presently Away
>Yeah I seen that. Thought that was pretty good. Is that enough to build your new shop? T.O.
$1,449+shipping = NICE SCORE!!
Wiley Horne
>As Bugbear said, hard work and getting up at o'dark thirty pays off. The photo model didn't hurt either (<:).
Wiley
Actually.....
Todd Hughes
>this time I didn't get to the place till around 9:00 and didn't see the plane till after we had a nice lunch at the Amish restaurant. Walked out the door and looked around a bit and saw it in a wood tool tote and bought it about 20 min. later.
Like to say it took me lots of work to get but in this case it really didn't. Of course had to know what it was.
.... I really do believe , for lack of a better word, in "Luck" and that I get things that I want and that they are sent to me to find.
I liked the photo of Leigh with the plane though using it did cause me to get in some Hot Water ....but I'm used to it!..Todd
I hope you paid her a commission
Bill Houghton, leftover turkey yum! Sebastopol, CA
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