Rick Potter
03-17-2022, 3:07 AM
Here I am trying to get rid of extra shop stuff, and the wife asks me to go to an estate sale to look at a bed she wants for the spare bedroom.
Well, we get there, and the garage is full of the usual stuff, plus some tools. It's the last day, and everything is half price and picked through. I immediately see a little Craftsman router table for a Dremel tool for $5, grab it, then see a never used Sorby 3/8" full size bowl gauge, a new 3/8" Benjamin best 3/8 half ring cutter (??), Great Neck 3/8 bowl gauge, a little HF compact router in the box, a box full of wooden toy parts, and pen blanks and arbors, a NIB Carter back up scrolling wheel for a band saw, and to top it off, a Dust Deputy with both pails and two hoses. All marked $5. Whew.
When we checked out it was almost closing and they just gave me all the above plus other small stuff for $20.
Would you turn it down??
I didn't buy the Craftsman TS and Delta 6" disc/1X30" belt sander both marked $50, but half price....or offer. I think I could have bought both for $25 total, but I don't need any of that stuff. I will probably give away a lot of it anyway.
PS: We also bought the bed. It was a King size which was actually two twins next to each other, because they both power articulated separately like a hospital bed. The actual mattresses were Serta Sleep Number air beds with automatic air pumps. We got it for $100. We are going to have a popular guest bedroom.
Well, we get there, and the garage is full of the usual stuff, plus some tools. It's the last day, and everything is half price and picked through. I immediately see a little Craftsman router table for a Dremel tool for $5, grab it, then see a never used Sorby 3/8" full size bowl gauge, a new 3/8" Benjamin best 3/8 half ring cutter (??), Great Neck 3/8 bowl gauge, a little HF compact router in the box, a box full of wooden toy parts, and pen blanks and arbors, a NIB Carter back up scrolling wheel for a band saw, and to top it off, a Dust Deputy with both pails and two hoses. All marked $5. Whew.
When we checked out it was almost closing and they just gave me all the above plus other small stuff for $20.
Would you turn it down??
I didn't buy the Craftsman TS and Delta 6" disc/1X30" belt sander both marked $50, but half price....or offer. I think I could have bought both for $25 total, but I don't need any of that stuff. I will probably give away a lot of it anyway.
PS: We also bought the bed. It was a King size which was actually two twins next to each other, because they both power articulated separately like a hospital bed. The actual mattresses were Serta Sleep Number air beds with automatic air pumps. We got it for $100. We are going to have a popular guest bedroom.