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Those fellows are truly witty - if I knew their language, I'd love to share a meal with them - (def no marmite)

I would think that what defines these is the collector who thought they were be interesting, not one single trade. eg some specific to wagon/wheel making along with a variety of multipurpose cast/wrought hammers - seems completely unlinked? You'd have to show them a few at a time or get an...

very interesting one -- seen a lot of vices, but not quite like that and the initials (M S?) don't ring a bell - an English look from about 1900, but enclosed screw a bit like Czech York type from 1920s (later US Wilton)

sooo - Yates x2 - who woulda thought? (my bet on Anquetil from stage 1 won't pay now -- didn't he do that once? in the days of fighting off Poulidor?) -- I go back as far as Jacob and his reminiscences --- aged 14 used to follow Tour by reading Cycling Weekly - gave up when 1. - could never...

Anquetil, surely.

Yes - just because it's HSS and can take a much higher temp in use than carbon steel, doesn't mean it isn't affected by heat. Grinding wheel and sanding should have little effect on hardness, but the high speed of an angle grinder could be quite different (up to melting at the edge), so at the...

not a plane maker, but have refurbed quite a few, ------ for a newly made plane - soak in blo, wipe down as much as poss, dry as much as poss, only then do your final wax, varnish blend or whatever. Tallow is great for reducing friction on the sole, and on other tools --- but it smells. both...

If you use a petrol washer - think of the neighbours re noise - we had a m/bike enthusiast next door - spent hours power washing his bike and drive - couldn't hear ourselves speak in the garden -

interesting stuff - any more info might be of interest to us non-clockmenders.

By 'snapped one' I don't suppose you mean broke it or even photographed it? Also - don't you mean early 20th C? - generally the first vice/vise patents for cast iron bench vices were from 1860 (USA) and 1870 (UK) onwards -the earlier wrought iron types were of the blacksmiths leg vice kind...

GTL planes - had two of the brass type, both with the characteristic adjuster (not quite Norris) but obviously different mould patterns (one signif thinner than the other) and have seen the cast iron version -- all no3 size. Kept one (the heavier) and it's my only no3 and works as well as my...

something fine about wood handled tools especially like the ?scraper (changeable blades? - carbide? or skarsten? or)

Certainly has that cobblers look (eg Barnsley of Sheffield) but I've not seen this style before. Fashion driven, heel shaves - to get that year's in-fashion convex look to the stack of hard heel/sole leather that made up the heel. some of the fancier versions look like small chairmakers convex...

find some extra rocks (b'lieve you hav'em in Cornwall?) and make a rockery herb garden with a bit of variegated ivy to hold it together - may also slighty bolster the Cornish 'hedge as it settles - perennials like marjoram, thyme should be easy and spread themselves sorry about your killers...

Give your "slightly less good now you've got something better" tools to a charity such as men's sheds, a repair cafe or Tools for Self Reliance or similar. Or become a seller as well as a buyer. Sorry, have to keep this short, I have a few doz lovely chisels too many - time for a clear out.

not a particular doggie fan, but that hi-speed pup sure animates the vid

If you're very lucky with a broken leaf spring and don't mind a slight curve, you may be able to make a froe with an angle grinder, no blacksmith. the longest leaf of an old car/truck spring has a loop at the end - use this for the handle - cut off and some shaping with the angle grinder then...

love the saw and inscription (recently somewhere was selling off tools with the Savage provenance, likewise a Scandi maker) but I'd go for your saw

Yup weird medallion. V unlikely UK. I have a Spanish saw with a similar handle but not that disc. The logo looks a little like a tool used by blacksmiths for bending hot wrought iron.

Interesting job and thanks for the details. Of course at one time Herbert sold their own Ajax quick release buttress thread vices as well as similar Fortis vices from Coventry. So I suppose they had a serious production line the make the slightly lesser dia but considerably longer threads for...