Every month Patrick Leach sends out a list of tools he has for sale.
To me this is one of the highlights to the beginning of the month. A lot of knowledge and enjoyable reading has been supplied by his list.
The July list came today. While perusing the miscellaneous section this shocked me:
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Years ago when it was clearly folly to ask Candy if it was okay to spend $1,000 on an old plane my time was bided until it seemed possible she would consent to me spending $250 on a new plane. The box for mine is around here somewhere. Maybe now that it is no longer made and rare it can be sold for the cost of a Stanley #1.
My LN #1 does actually get used on occasion.
jtk