Thread: Monday night Show'n'Tell

I think the expression starts with b and ends with astard.

What a top score. Sad too. I'm guessing grandma has keeled over and the kids have cleared out pop's shed. Who knows how many old toolkits like this have ended up in landfill when dumped by the unconcerned and passed by by the unknowing?

Our council has recently gone over to a pick up by request system for council cleanup. Not a bad idea but a bit disappointing for the scarab beetles like me that like to cruise, peruse and reuse.

Well done. Good find.

Cheers,
Virg.

Originally Posted by Virgil

I think the expression starts with b and ends with astard.

What a top score. Sad too. I'm guessing grandma has keeled over and the kids have cleared out pop's shed. Who knows how many old toolkits like this have ended up in landfill when dumped by the unconcerned and passed by by the unknowing?

Our council has recently gone over to a pick up by request system for council cleanup. Not a bad idea but a bit disappointing for the scarab beetles like me that like to cruise, peruse and reuse.

Well done. Good find.

Cheers,
Virg.

Ha Ha [ b and ends with astard. ]

We have the same here , pick up by request system. this was just a one off sitting out there by itself.

With the old system I used to see guys with Ute's trawling through one after the other, possibly after scrap metal, some I think would be taking the TV's, Why ? I dont know.

With this one ,an Old guy I presumed was the house owner drove in the driveway while I was having a look , we gave each other a wave and a nod, country style, as he passed. I was hoping he was going to come back and have a chat and I could have asked about the tools , me hoping It would lead to the main load I could pay for. He went inside though and I stopped dreaming.

It could have been a deceased estate clean out, a box containing all the letters and telegrams from a 1947 wedding were in there. a ladies treasure at some stage. that is sad.
I have them sitting on my bench ,some of the cards are pretty amazing in the way they were made and decorated.

Yesterday when I passed and had a look half of the heap had disappeared. better it gets picked over than being buried.

Rob

Originally Posted by auscab

Last Monday I was driving some Children to the local swimming pool and spotted what looked like a tool box sitting in a rubbish heap for road side collection .On the way back home I stopped for a look.

??? On the way back home ???

You waited until the return trip?

They were teenagers were they? ... "Noooo ... drop us off first ... you're soooo embarassing"


Paul

Originally Posted by auscab

Last Monday I was driving some Children to the local swimming pool and spotted what looked like a tool box sitting in a rubbish heap for road side collection .On the way back home I stopped for a look.

I Couldn't believe what I found when I opened it up. The first thing I saw was an 18th c moulding plane. I started shaking.lol

I took a few pictures of the box which I left there ,it was gone last night when I checked.

All the gear sitting on the white sheet is what I scored. At first I was most pleased with the 18th c moulding plane even though I think the sole has been reshaped.

Just poking out from under the trowel is the end of the pad saw. I had not paid any attention to it, it was dry and dirty, until I showed Lightwood my find when I dropped in to visit. He pointed out that it was a Brazilian rosewood one. Gave it a rub. Fruit !!

I took the blade out of a beech one that is next to it that I own and polished the handle up.

Rob

Rob great score. .....although i think you left behind the most important part the box it all came in obviously it could tell a story.

Good score Rob. In the early 80's I used do the curbside cleanups. Once I found a froe, another time 2 paint cans full of dirt. At least it was dirt.

A Froe, that's a good score from the rubbish . It took me 25 years before I got a froe, I think I paid $40 for it + postage.

I once picked up an old Victa of the rubbish , sold it on eBay for $80

I bet when Luban started this thread nearly four years ago, he couldn't have forseen it lasting so long.
It certainly is ages since I posted here, and given that I am downsizing, surprising as well.
Anyhoo, years and years back - can't remember when, it may be decades by now, I acquired one chisel among a few others, that I liked immediately, and have used ever since. It is a Mathieson bevelled edge with a lovely fine blade.
Ever since, I have kept looking for others - and every few years or more another has come along.
On Sunday, I found another, and now have a grand total of four.
These are 1/8, 1/2, 5/8 and 1-1/4.
The handles are a joy to hold and the steel is very good.
I would love to put together a wider set, but at this rate, I may not live long enough.

Cheers
SG

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lovely chisels Scribbly, Here's my find , a Stanley 921 10inch brace (cleaned up). It was pretty rusty but as I've found with a lot of the older steels is that they tend not to pit as bad as the modern steels? Spins beautifully and all for the princely sum of $4 and a few hours rubbing with sand paper and steel wool.
regards
Ian

Originally Posted by Scribbly Gum

I bet when Luban started this thread nearly four years ago, he couldn't have forseen it lasting so long.
I would love to put together a wider set, but at this rate, I may not live long enough.

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Oh, well it probably wouldn't help if I told you they're also available as gouges, and that I even have a teeny-weeny 1/16th morticing chisel from this range... right?
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Nope, that wouldn't be very helpful of me at all

Lovely chisels, never seen the bevel edge ones, but I'll be keeping an eye out for them now!

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Originally Posted by pyarra

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Lovely chisels, never seen the bevel edge ones, but I'll be keeping an eye out for them now!....

We will see if they go on his downsizing list and places them in the Market Place.

Originally Posted by Christos

We will see if they go on his downsizing list and places them in the Market Place.

Ha ha Christos.
There will be other chisels in the marketplace, but I think I will keep these.
Really, these aren't world beaters, but they are very good steel and ergonomically the handles suit me.
I think that sometimes woodworkers can strive for having the "best" in a particular tool field, and not be happy until they have that particular tool. Then, some time later, along comes another which is technically better, higher spec'd or whatever, and they think that if they only had that, their woodwork would improve.
It is a trap, I think.
There is an old saying:
Perfection is the enemy of good enough
We need to realise that there are so many tools that we can use that are good enough.
For most of us, our woodwork is rarely worthy of the quality of the tools we employ.
Be content and enjoy your woodwork.
SG

Originally Posted by Scribbly Gum

Ha ha Christos.
There will be other chisels in the marketplace, but I think I will keep these.
Really, these aren't world beaters, but they are very good steel and ergonomically the handles suit me.
I think that sometimes woodworkers can strive for having the "best" in a particular tool field, and not be happy until they have that particular tool. Then, some time later, along comes another which is technically better, higher spec'd or whatever, and they think that if they only had that, their woodwork would improve.
It is a trap, I think.
There is an old saying:
Perfection is the enemy of good enough
We need to realise that there are so many tools that we can use that are good enough.
For most of us, our woodwork is rarely worthy of the quality of the tools we employ.
Be content and enjoy your woodwork.
SG

You are so right Tom well said.

Originally Posted by pyarra

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Man, that kills me

"For most of us, our woodwork is rarely worthy of the quality of the tools we employ.
Be content and enjoy your woodwork."

Spot on SG. Reminds me of the purists back in the days of record players going for perfection when the only thing they could use it for was a demonstration disc, and that probably lost its best tonal qualities after playing once.