An item ordered for Candy came in. Candy ordered a cab-machine at a rock shop in Vancouver, WA. A cab-machine is like a bench grinder with eight wheels for polishing cabochons, those oval pieces of stone you see in rings, earrings, necklaces, and other jewelry. We got a call that it had arrived so we drove down to pick it up. On the way home we were going buy a couple of my favorite places to stop to look for rust.
One story had a draw knife without a price. The guy behind the counter had to call the owner who wanted $35. The same price a 10" straight draw knife had on it. I took a slight step back shook and lowered my head saying, thats too much. He passed that on to the boss on the phone. He then asked if $20 was more like it, I okayed that and had him set it aside while the wife and daughter looked. In the meantime they were trying to get an old neon sign without the neon into the back of a car. That turned into an ordeal as the angle iron used to hang it on a wall many years ago extended too much for it all to work. The bolts holding it on were not only rusted together, there was only a short handled crescent wrench. One of the guys in the feed store had a portable 6 bandsaw we used to cut the hanger off and loading in the back of the guys car.
After all that the guy dropped the $5 on an item my daughter wanted and took a check for the $20.
Not great, not bad.
At the next store I got 10% off on a couple of wooden nosing planes. The nose planes are 1-1/4 & 1-1/2. The small one needs a new wedge. The current wedge is cut short and the shavings jam. The big on clears the shaving very well. Both cut pretty well on 3/4 stock.
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The small one has an Auburn Tools mark. The big one has a Sandusky Tools mark.
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Originally Posted by Mike Manning
