jimi43
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AndyT":12dxuxer said:
Very good Prof...that took me a while to get!!
Saturn me ar$e too long methinks! :mrgreen:
Jim
I blame you lot!
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Very good Prof...that took me a while to get!!
Saturn me ar$e too long methinks! :mrgreen:
Jim
he he...you are so ******* now......
was a bit surprised to see some rustiness there though.....you need to get on top of that...I cant abide a dirty, rusty or generally shabby tool, when I get a plane, it gets the full treatment ......
Cheers, Mark
was a bit surprised to see some rustiness there though.....you need to get on top of that...I cant abide a dirty, rusty or generally shabby tool, when I get a plane, it gets the full treatment ......
Cheers, Mark
MMUK
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AndyNC":1k3u9th2 said:So some people collect planes. How could that ever be problem.
I mean, what would the misses say
You could have at least built a nice cabinet for them
jimi43
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That is the most incredible waste of tools I have ever had the misfortune to witness!
:roll:
Jimi
:roll:
Jimi
May I explain the "collection" oh I must say they're not mine!!.
I had a chance meeting while taking some stuff to a recycling depot.
I spotted a couple of guys unloading a trailer and there was a pile of woodworking magazines.
I asked if I could have a few and he explained that his (great?)grandfather had died and his house was full of tools that he had collected over the years. He said I could buy some off him I wanted to so I jumped at the opportunity.
I went round to the house and this was what the front room looked like. Upstairs was a room of other tools saws/hammers and others.
There were also rooms with old electrical tools, mainly hand tools. Apparently there were sheds in the garden with loads of gardening tools as well.
I spent about £150 and got a good collection of tools and other hardware. Went back another time and bought some more but after that I could not contact him. Either I had upset him or he had disposed of it and didn't want me going round again. I also get the feeling he wanted to clear the house because he had taken a bucket full of clamps to the scrappie.
I managed to get a number of record planes Nos 3, 4*2, 4 1/2, 5 1/2, 6 and 7, a few block planes, a bucket full of clamps and good hand full of saws including a couple of distons ( D6 pre 1926) and a Spear and Jackson with the little nib on the to of the blade and a record 52 1/2?? vice. The 6 and 7 were not particularly flat but I've found some one that works on a surface grinder.
He has sold a few good plane off on ebay at good prices including a couple of no 8s and a famous make that I can't remember for about £150.
Looking at the picture I'm sure I saw a low front knob stanley in there somewhere.
If he had been willing I would have posted his number on this forum for you all to buy from him but I as I previously said I couldn't contact him and alas the house has been cleared and is on sale all tidied up.
jimi43: Yes it an incredible waste of tools also consider the only way to get the back was to walk over them, but as KevM said "Nice carpet"
From the guy who inherited them there were an estimated 900 planes to get rid of. Consider putting them ebay. It would have taken a year to clear.
Cheers
Andy
I had a chance meeting while taking some stuff to a recycling depot.
I spotted a couple of guys unloading a trailer and there was a pile of woodworking magazines.
I asked if I could have a few and he explained that his (great?)grandfather had died and his house was full of tools that he had collected over the years. He said I could buy some off him I wanted to so I jumped at the opportunity.
I went round to the house and this was what the front room looked like. Upstairs was a room of other tools saws/hammers and others.
There were also rooms with old electrical tools, mainly hand tools. Apparently there were sheds in the garden with loads of gardening tools as well.
I spent about £150 and got a good collection of tools and other hardware. Went back another time and bought some more but after that I could not contact him. Either I had upset him or he had disposed of it and didn't want me going round again. I also get the feeling he wanted to clear the house because he had taken a bucket full of clamps to the scrappie.
I managed to get a number of record planes Nos 3, 4*2, 4 1/2, 5 1/2, 6 and 7, a few block planes, a bucket full of clamps and good hand full of saws including a couple of distons ( D6 pre 1926) and a Spear and Jackson with the little nib on the to of the blade and a record 52 1/2?? vice. The 6 and 7 were not particularly flat but I've found some one that works on a surface grinder.
He has sold a few good plane off on ebay at good prices including a couple of no 8s and a famous make that I can't remember for about £150.
Looking at the picture I'm sure I saw a low front knob stanley in there somewhere.
If he had been willing I would have posted his number on this forum for you all to buy from him but I as I previously said I couldn't contact him and alas the house has been cleared and is on sale all tidied up.
jimi43: Yes it an incredible waste of tools also consider the only way to get the back was to walk over them, but as KevM said "Nice carpet"
From the guy who inherited them there were an estimated 900 planes to get rid of. Consider putting them ebay. It would have taken a year to clear.
Cheers
Andy
Thanks for the explanation, Andy, and welcome to the forum. It's reassuring to hear that it's not your own, or anyone's, deliberately made collection. I hope not too many went for scrap - at least you managed to pick out some good ones!
