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Not mine.
That one has been around awhile.
I can't keep something like this in my shop.
My dog steals everything I drop.
I use the Veritas guide for marking out...
http://www.leevalley.com/us/wood/pag...18&cat=1,42884
Once I learned to saw straight, I didn't need the guide.
It makes a ready to use marking gauge.
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Ahh, George Ellis. My second favorite woodworking writer. Nice work Graham!
Your endgrain is like your bellybutton. Yes, I know you have it. No, I don't want to see it.
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I am glad I saw this thread. I have trouble making my marks near the edge because my dovetail marker is mostly off the piece. This one would allow me to flip the marker. Reading what Mike said about needing a second marker got me to thinking and then playing in the shop. This is the result. The inside was not meant to be that wide. It took me 3 tries to get it perpendicular.
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Nice compact design. Congratulations!Originally Posted by Robert G Brown
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Yeah, really enjoy his work. His book on stair building is an eye popper! One thing I wish I could fully understand is complex handrailing!
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Nice job Robert!
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I have Paul Sellers' and Rob Cosman's dovetail markers. I made both of them out of a scrap of cherry.
I prefer Cosman's marker. They both work fine. I have 1 to 6 and 1 to 8 slopes made. I use the 1 to 8 mostly.
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All this stuff about markers, jigs, slopes, brass, cherry, using saws, using knives, cutting to a baseline, not cutting to a baseline has me baffled. Think I'll find me a good old Porter Cable Omnijig!
Crap, I forgot, I think I have one in storage somewhere!
If the thunder don't get you, the lightning will.
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Hey, Tony, I saw reading elsewhere that you're pilfering my favorite fayetteville antique shop!!
That's one of the last two places I can just walk in and get tools substantially "below ebay prices". the other being the black rose in hanover, pa, but it's hit or miss if the guy who drops stuff off there has done anything in a while, and the booth size is about a tenth the spread that the guy at fayetteville has.
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I got a really nice middle size #18 Stanley bevel. Looks like new - $18 ($20 less 10% for cash). Across the street, got a set of 4 Greenlee chisels for $16.00. These are marked made in Sheffield and look for all purposes, like the old blue handled Records, except these are green and marked Greenlee. 3 look like they've never been used and the 3/4" had whoever owned it, tried to sharpen it, bunged up the back on top of the bevel and tried to flatten it on a disc sander. Took about an hour or so, but it now looks like it should. Took a beautiful edge and has kept it so far in some cherry.
The guy with the "big" space must have had 50 to 75 saws in his pile, all marked $3 to $5, but I didn't have the time to search through (wife & daughter #3 were with me). Did look like a #12 handle or two in the pile! He also had an Emmert woodworker's vise for $35.00 (this is the one that looks like the old Records). Was all there, but pretty bunged up.
Fayetteville has been my "honey hole" for damn near a decade! Never had much luck over at Black Rose. I did leave some goodies, other than the Emmert, but I'm going to see who is able to find them, as I'm passing through that way again in two weeks!
Anybody who says there are no old tools out there to be had, sure isn't looking very hard!
If the thunder don't get you, the lightning will.
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I rifled through the big saw pile and at a time when I didn't really need any saws, didn't really see any in it that I needed. It would be, however, a great pile to dig out some saws to take home for scraper stock, to excavate saw nuts from etc. At the time, I also didn't know how to hammer saws straight, or at least didn't have a lot of confidence in it, but that's not the case now.
I can almost always go through the chisel pile and get something good for half of the going rate or less, and if I can't find a chisel, I can find something else that made the stop worthwhile. The guy's a good fellow, his card has his phone number on it, and he doesn't do internet stuff, which preserves his niche in the market. I didn't find anything in the expanse of other spaces last time I was there, but I'm usually with my wife and kids, so the best I can hope for is that daughter finds something that interests her there and needs a BR break.
The black rose has one specific booth that a guy like the fellow at fayetteville stocks, but he's a bit more particular. Among other things, i've dug a Type 1 millers falls 9C out of his booth for $12, a fresh barely used stanley 6 for $15, stanley 97/98 marking gauges types for about $10 each, in good shape, and two times ago, there were four jointer planes in there for $20 each. Three good-shape stanley 7s and a clean edwin hahn 7 sized jointer (that I should've taken). I caught the guy stocking his booth one time and he said that he sells a lot to dealers, and I went back the next day to get the hahn plane, and literally everything was gone - a dealer must've taken it all.
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If you catch the guy there, he readily deals prices down! Through the years, I've gotten more than a couple of really good saws out of that pile (and it looks like he just added a slew to it). From his pile of chisels, I got an unused Stanley 750, in 5/8" width a number of years ago for $4.00! The building directly across the street has a decent dealer also. He is usually there on Sundays and again readily drops prices. About a year ago, I got a NOS Record 52E (IIRC - w/quickly release), with the torn/tattered box for $60.00. This past weekend he had a not all together there patternmaker's vise for $270.00 (the guy across the street had the other Emmert). For those that don't know, Emmerts were made about 7 or 8 miles from this antique mall.
Let's see, I also got a like new Stanley 199 utility knife, loaded with blades for $4, a Littleton small anvil for $15 (Littleton foundry was about 25 miles away, and if you watch, you can pick up quality machinists vises in antique stores in that locale). A like new MF plumb bob (have half dozen just like it, but can never have too many plumb bobs - collection totals well over 300 if not 400!).
If the thunder don't get you, the lightning will.
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I actually worked in a cabinet factory that was next door to the littlestown foundry (summers between college). They weren't making vises by that time, though. I didn't love working in the cabinet factory, but the way the foundry guys came out of the building, it looked like I made out pretty well. There was a lighting factory and a pool on the other side of the building. the cabinet factory closed several years ago, unfortunately. It was a big operation, but when the market for liar loans went away, so did the ability of the average person to keep redoing their kitchens over and over (or buy houses that were 20x their annual income). It looks like a junk food factory has moved in there.
I've caught the guy at the place on the eastbound side of 30 and gotten the "in person" discount. I don't know if I can get the mrs. and the kids to stick around long enough to go in the other side. Maybe in future years.
Waynesboro (where the emmerts were made) was in our athletic league, and on and off so was chambersburg - just up the road from fayetteville, of course.
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