Jim Koepke
04-08-2009, 11:44 PM
The wife and I decided to take a trip today into Oregon to buy a replacement greenhouse for the one we lost in the snow storms of last winter. I prefer to do business for things like this face to face so we can ask questions and pick the brains. Learned a lot while there.
My other motive is the greenhouse maker is in Aurora, OR which has a lot of antique shops. One of them does have a lot of old tools and there is a salvage building material seller that also has a display case or two for tools. To top it off, Woodburn is just a few miles more down the road and there is an antique shop there with a few tools and the guy who sells tools there lives on the same lot and has a house full of tools. I think the wife humors me only because the woman there is pleasant to talk to, because once Terry and I get going, the time just goes out the window.
Anyway, the only plane that was not in my accumulation of bench planes is a #8. That changed today. It is in need of some clean up & care, but imagine it will be useable in short order.
So after about an hour or so of going down to his basement, yacking away and admiring his collection including a Bedrock 605-1/4 we finally left heading back towards Aurora. My wife had seen a furniture company going out of business, so we stopped there. Not much to choose from and nothing we like for sure. There was another furniture store that did have a sofa we liked, so it was a good thing the fire wood and pallets were cleared out of ol' Red Wheezin' Goose this morning. That is what we call our pick up truck because now and again it makes a sound like a wheezing goose and I'll bet you know what color said truck be.
So we loaded and tied the sofa and as we continued toward Aurora, SWMBO must have had buyers remorse or something and said, "I think we have spent enough money today." I didn't think so, with the greenhouse, sofa plane and the little goodies she got from the antique shop it was still less than the insurance check for the greenhouse. Of course with the other things we will need to get for the greenhouse, that will dwindle fast. So I didn't get to peruse the tools in the antique shops of Aurora. Just another reason to go back sometime.
I did leave a list with Terry for some things I want to get. He said he likely has them, they are just buried in boxes somewhere.
This wasn't the highest price I have paid for a plane, but it is one of the higher prices, $50. I like Oregon, there is no sales tax.
There isn't anyone selling the kind of greenhouse we were replacing in Washington, but just the same, the sales tax would have been over $400 if we bought it here. Besides, there likely wouldn't be anyone selling planes just a hop and a skip down the road either.
jim
My other motive is the greenhouse maker is in Aurora, OR which has a lot of antique shops. One of them does have a lot of old tools and there is a salvage building material seller that also has a display case or two for tools. To top it off, Woodburn is just a few miles more down the road and there is an antique shop there with a few tools and the guy who sells tools there lives on the same lot and has a house full of tools. I think the wife humors me only because the woman there is pleasant to talk to, because once Terry and I get going, the time just goes out the window.
Anyway, the only plane that was not in my accumulation of bench planes is a #8. That changed today. It is in need of some clean up & care, but imagine it will be useable in short order.
So after about an hour or so of going down to his basement, yacking away and admiring his collection including a Bedrock 605-1/4 we finally left heading back towards Aurora. My wife had seen a furniture company going out of business, so we stopped there. Not much to choose from and nothing we like for sure. There was another furniture store that did have a sofa we liked, so it was a good thing the fire wood and pallets were cleared out of ol' Red Wheezin' Goose this morning. That is what we call our pick up truck because now and again it makes a sound like a wheezing goose and I'll bet you know what color said truck be.
So we loaded and tied the sofa and as we continued toward Aurora, SWMBO must have had buyers remorse or something and said, "I think we have spent enough money today." I didn't think so, with the greenhouse, sofa plane and the little goodies she got from the antique shop it was still less than the insurance check for the greenhouse. Of course with the other things we will need to get for the greenhouse, that will dwindle fast. So I didn't get to peruse the tools in the antique shops of Aurora. Just another reason to go back sometime.
I did leave a list with Terry for some things I want to get. He said he likely has them, they are just buried in boxes somewhere.
This wasn't the highest price I have paid for a plane, but it is one of the higher prices, $50. I like Oregon, there is no sales tax.
There isn't anyone selling the kind of greenhouse we were replacing in Washington, but just the same, the sales tax would have been over $400 if we bought it here. Besides, there likely wouldn't be anyone selling planes just a hop and a skip down the road either.
jim