Mrs Dibnahs bandwagon

[Graham Orm]

Selling Fred's stuff off via Facebook on Ebay

£100 for 2 very tired chisels. Good luck with that.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/FRED-DIBNAH-0 ... ef=Default

 

[bugbear]

Selling Fred's stuff off via Facebook on Ebay

£100 for 2 very tired chisels. Good luck with that.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/FRED-DIBNAH-0 ... ef=Default

For a tool. it's a diabolical price.

For a piece of history - not so bad.

BugBear

 

[Mike.S]

Starting price was £8, so it's the bidders getting carried away. BUT, if you're a fan, then as BugBear says, it's a piece of history.

Wonder if Mrs D would buy my surplus tat and sell it off as......(just kidding :evil: )

 

[marcros]

what is that lower one- i cant really see very well, but is it a carving chisel?

 

[Graham Orm]

It's a gouge.........they must be mad.

 

[bugbear]

It's a gouge.........they must be mad.

Have you seen what people pay for small unusable pieces of oak...

... as long as they're from HMS Victory?

Some people (not me, but that's not the point) rate Fred Dibnah very highly.

BugBear

 

[Cheshirechappie]

Copied and pasted from the 'blurb' in the Ebay listing:

"I'm selling these as 'decorative items only' ( or, collectables), since Fred gave them to me for display - saying they were 'knackered'

But, imagine the use they've had by 'Our Fred' over the years?

You can see how much he worked with them, and ground the blades in his workshops to keep the edges nice and sharp

They were used on all sorts of word-working jobs as the years rolled by, as Fred later shot to fame in the late 70's, he continued to use them up until 2002, when he gave them to me because I said they were 'cute'."

In this instance, I'd be more inclined to agree with Fred.....

 

[blackrodd]

May be the new owner will be on here soon, asking about angles and "scary sharp" and such.
Rodders

 

[Cheshirechappie]

May be the new owner will be on here soon, asking about angles and "scary sharp" and such.
Rodders

....or, "Where can I buy a new ferrule?"

 

[Job and Knock]

I've no doubt that Fred is sitting up there on his cloud right now laughing his socks off at how daft folk are. £100 for two knackered chisels!

 

[Graham Orm]

I've no doubt that Fred is sitting up there on his cloud right now laughing his socks off at how daft folk are. £100 for two knackered chisels!

I bet Mrs Dibnah's laughing louder!

 

[tobytools]

What a load of junk,
I own 2 small pieces of HMS victory oak so I'm good
TT

 

[Graham Orm]

What a load of junk,
I own 2 small pieces of HMS victory oak so I'm good
TT

That's what you think. :mrgreen:

 

[Mr_P]

Blimey £127 inc postage.

If you love Fred fair enough but as 20th century icons go I doubt he will stand the test of time.

Peter Cook & Dudley Moore
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SIGNED-TWICE- ... 2edcde7576

Dustin Gee
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/AUTOGRAPH-Dus ... 7675.l2557

 

[Phil Pascoe]

Dustin who?

 

[Graham Orm]

That was me when I was working for a cleaning agency.

 

[custard]

Have you seen what people pay for small unusable pieces of oak...

... as long as they're from HMS Victory?

A lot of that Victory oak wasn't even part of the ship when Nelson was aboard. It's genuinely from The Victory, but actually dates back to some Victorian restorations.

 

[novocaine]

I wonder if they know he never really did much work in wood, more an iron and brick man. they'll have been something he picked up along his way and maybe used a couple of times for battering something apart. may have even cut them down on purpose for easy working up a cat ladder when he needed to form a new wedge but I guess not likely.

 

[Graham Orm]

He was a joiner by trade

 

[novocaine]

funny that, I thought he was a steeplejack by trade, he did serve his time as a joiner on but didn't do much of it after doing some property repairs for someone and the owner of the company realised he could do other things. and once out of that he really didn't do much other than what he had too.

I'll concied that by training he was a joiner though.

feel a trip to the Dibnah heritage centre coming on for me, lol.