Wondering how others sort this issue when bidding on auction sites?
By looking closely and asking questions. Most of the inexperienced sellers on auction sites will call a chisel the only thing they have ever heard it called. So if they have only heard of a timber framing chisel even the most delicate paring chisel will be called a timber framing chisel.
Same with planes, it is almost funny to see someone call a molding plane a block plane.
jtk
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