Against my better judgement, I responded to a local classified and fell right into the deep end again.
The gentleman was selling a lifetimes collection of tools acquired from a friend who is terminally ill. He had about 15 boxes full of tools, all carefully wrapped in paper, all in great shape. I sifted through them to get only what stood out to me, (ignoring the full sets of iron bench planes etc., as I have more than I could ever use). Here are a few things I came home with, I think you folks will appreciate most of them:
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Hollows and rounds, ranging from size 7 to 15 (and a size 3 hollow) from various makers, here paired or unpaired based on what I found.
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Some lovely firmer and paring chisels from W. Marples & Sons, with one from Spear and Jackson. Lovely boxwood handles. The one amazing chisel here is the square bolstered mortise chisel on the left - its made by Samuel Newbould. That, and the shape would suggest it is from the late 18th century - over 200 years old! It is just about 1/2" away from the last of the laminated useful steel, but otherwise in great shape, with an interesting user made handle. Some huge, very coarse rasps in background too.
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Stanley 82, and 80 scrapers, and a couple drawknives, one with folding handles. A beautiful wedge arm fillister plane in the background, with a boxwood profile. The only mark it has is a cursive 'Stewart'. Missing a slitter I believe. The fence seems to have some rotation on the rods, is this to allow easier adjustment or should I be tightening the screws at the bottom?
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Rabone 1190 boxwood rule with level and angle markings (though I don't think they are too accurate) and a Rabone & Sons combination square.
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Originally Posted by Hasin Haroon
