Monday night Show'n'Tell

**Scribbly Gum** · 15th January 2012, 07:47 AM

Originally Posted by Virgil

Here here.
I think that's one of the main reasons that I do it. I was using my mum's uncle's stanley No.7 the other day, truing up some stock while listening to Dave Warner belt India all over the place. As I worked through my project I realised that of all the tools I had used only two clamps and Veritas marking gauge were new.
I couldn't begin to calculate the combined age of the rest of the tools, and I wondered just how many hands had used them, how many strokes these tools had made, how many kilos of shavings, sawdust and chips that they had made.
Funny how your mind wanders while you wonder and work.

Cheers,
Virg.

“Things men have made with wakened hands, and put soft life into
are awake through years with transferred touch, and go on glowing
for long years.
And for this reason, some old things are lovely
warm still with the life of forgotten men who made them.”
― D.H. Lawrence

Hear hear
SG

**Ian Wells** · 15th January 2012, 11:54 AM

https://www.woodworkforums.com/member...lls-2-1927.jpg $7 at local market, a few fluted bits included , which made me think it might have been an earlier model, but works silky smooth

**Vann** · 15th January 2012, 07:41 PM

Originally Posted by Ian Wells

...$7 at local market, a few fluted bits included , which made me think it might have been an earlier model, but works silky smooth

It's earlier than mine. Mine has an idler pinion, yours has the earlier friction roller. And good price too

Cheers, Vann.

**Scribbly Gum** · 12th February 2012, 04:01 PM

Well, I don't have a tool to show, but for the first time I had my camera with me when I attended the Sunday Markets.
So my show and tell is of the markets themselves.
Thought you might be interested. Don't want to bore anyone so here is one piccie.
If you are interested, there is much more on my BLOG.
The Village Woodworker: On Any Sunday .........

Cheers SG

**Scribbly Gum** · 26th February 2012, 09:17 AM

Our Hastings Woodworkers Guild has a stall at the Camden Haven Show at Kendall this weekend.
I was on duty yesterday with a hoarde of other woodies from the club. It was a great day - a lot of fun.
I did manage to pick up elsewhere at the show a sad looking Disston 7 or D-7 -not quite sure which.
Handle is cactus, but the blade is near full, it is straight, breasted, has all its teeth and is 6TPI filed rip.

A little clean up and a new handle, and all it now needs is a quick lick with the file and we are back in business.
Cost me the princely sum of $1

Oh happy day ......

**orraloon** · 26th February 2012, 11:40 AM

Nice old saw SG.
As it happens it was a $1 saw got me started in restoration of saws and the odd dabble at saw making. $1.00 saw
It is a lovely worker and now it hangs beside quite a few more nice old saws. I usually now have to pay more like $5 or even $10 however.
Good to see a fine old tool live again.
Regards
John

**mspil** · 25th March 2012, 05:27 PM

I picked this one up at a Trash and Treasure today for $40. In its original box, with original tag, waxed paper, and hints leaflet. It has a little superficial rust in a few spots, but otherwise appears almost unused. (The leaflet refers to Stanley 'originating in 1869, almost 80 years ago', so my guess is that it was early post WW2. My user 4 1/2 will now go into the market place!

**NCArcher** · 25th March 2012, 06:02 PM

Great buy mspil

**woodsurfer** · 25th March 2012, 06:32 PM

You found the Holy Grail, bet you didnt haggle about the price.to think there still out there . Cheers

**rsser** · 25th March 2012, 07:19 PM

Lucky find. Well done.

Will still have to be fettled no matter how pretty it is. $40 was just the deposit.

**firemedic** · 25th March 2012, 10:15 PM

Wow! What a find! I'd buy your 'user' were the shipping not so high to the US

Makes ya wonder what's still out there!

**mspil** · 25th March 2012, 10:23 PM

You're right, woodsurfer, I didn't have the heart to haggle. I just dug deep and paid the man.

**mspil** · 25th March 2012, 10:25 PM

Rsser, paying the $40 was the hard part. The fettling is fun.

**Vann** · 9th April 2012, 05:04 PM

Possible gloat warning

I won yet another breast drill Sunday last week. No description other than: "The handle doesn't want to turn and the piece where the drill pieces go into does not seem to open up."

It looks like a "Yankee" 1555 or 1555a to me. That's one of their continuous motion drills where you can crank back and forth and the chuck keeps turning in the one direction. It hasn't arrived yet (posted last Thursday) and I don't know if it's fixable, but at $13 I thought it was worth the gamble. At worse I'll have a very cool looking monument (to my addiction) to hang on the wall.

Today I won an 8" brace. It's a Stanley No.917, an ugly looking beastie. It looks very different to the No.917 in the 1958 Stanley catalogue, but identical to the No.917 in the 1914 cattledog. Enclosed ratchet, top-of-the-line model. This one is sold "In good condition" so I'll have to use it occasionally to avoid being called a collector

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Cheers, Vann.

**Ian Wells** · 9th April 2012, 09:47 PM

Great brace Vann, and the jaws don't look like they've been butchered

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