Jim Koepke
10-27-2017, 7:11 PM
Trying to get a few things done before my flight down to the San Francisco area tomorrow. On our way back from town we saw a sign for an estate sale, what the heck, we could take a few minutes out of our busy day to look at stuff.
Wow! The guy was a woodworker. Some power tools of no interest to me. A lot of wooden planes, some in great condition. A few jointers, jacks and smoothers. There appeared to be only one transitional. My interest was mostly in the molding planes. Found an 1/8" hollow, a small detail plane and two dado planes, 1/2" & 3/4". The 3/4" was the most expensive at $15. The other three were $10 each. There was also a set of Record/Marples blue handled chisels at $45 and a Marples set of carving gouges at $45.
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The dividers came at the next stop. After leaving the estate sale Candy said she needed to use a restroom and wondered about the Unlimited Treasures shop where we often stop. Okay, twist my arm. I was looking through the tools and talking to Mike the guy who owns the place with his wife Susan. I picked up a pair of large dividers and told him there are already too many of these in my shop. The wing lock screw was missing so that was pointed out to him. He asked me about some other tools since he isn't up on them. Then I got to looking at another pair of dividers, a 9" pair with a removable point. I explained they were nice since a pencil could be attached so it would be a compass. Then I noticed the name stamped in the leg, LS Starrett. He had them marked at $3. There was also a small 6" pair with a price tag placed so all that could be seen was LS and Athol, marked at $2. I told him his price was too low on these two. He was happy for my telling him but said if I was interested I could have both for $5. He took them up to the counter to reprice them but kept asking me if I wanted them for $5 as he would still be seeing a profit. We even looked up some similar dividers on ebay with a $65 bid on them. So Candy finds something she wants and we strike a bargain on that and then he asks again and twisted my arm to buy them at $5.
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They are covered with a little rust, but they should clean up and be quite useable.
jtk
Wow! The guy was a woodworker. Some power tools of no interest to me. A lot of wooden planes, some in great condition. A few jointers, jacks and smoothers. There appeared to be only one transitional. My interest was mostly in the molding planes. Found an 1/8" hollow, a small detail plane and two dado planes, 1/2" & 3/4". The 3/4" was the most expensive at $15. The other three were $10 each. There was also a set of Record/Marples blue handled chisels at $45 and a Marples set of carving gouges at $45.
370488
The dividers came at the next stop. After leaving the estate sale Candy said she needed to use a restroom and wondered about the Unlimited Treasures shop where we often stop. Okay, twist my arm. I was looking through the tools and talking to Mike the guy who owns the place with his wife Susan. I picked up a pair of large dividers and told him there are already too many of these in my shop. The wing lock screw was missing so that was pointed out to him. He asked me about some other tools since he isn't up on them. Then I got to looking at another pair of dividers, a 9" pair with a removable point. I explained they were nice since a pencil could be attached so it would be a compass. Then I noticed the name stamped in the leg, LS Starrett. He had them marked at $3. There was also a small 6" pair with a price tag placed so all that could be seen was LS and Athol, marked at $2. I told him his price was too low on these two. He was happy for my telling him but said if I was interested I could have both for $5. He took them up to the counter to reprice them but kept asking me if I wanted them for $5 as he would still be seeing a profit. We even looked up some similar dividers on ebay with a $65 bid on them. So Candy finds something she wants and we strike a bargain on that and then he asks again and twisted my arm to buy them at $5.
370489
They are covered with a little rust, but they should clean up and be quite useable.
jtk