Thread: Long time coming

No, but the same "new" chisel is pictured.

I guess its a milestone of sorts. I've just noticed that this post (Long time coming) which I started early last year has had over 10,000 views (hence 20,000 eyeballs, I assumed most viewers have two). Anyway, the thread has outlived the book it was started to talk about. The thought of all those eyeballs gets at me. What do they want? Who are all these people?. Surely they all can't be Titan crazies. There was only a hundred or so books to buy all up and they went off ages ago. But still, viewers keep viewing and the eyeballs keep peeping. Maybe Titan chisels have a strange attraction. I think I have been bewitched by them. My wife certainly thinks that way. Perhaps there are forces (voices??) we cannot understand at work. Mm mm, yes. Voices.

So, where are we with the second edition. Well, I have two pages of additions, changes and corrections so far, which will mean a rehash of the contents and page numbers. There is quite a few new (better) images to insert/replace and I'm thinking a hard cover next time. The new book is proceeding slowly too. Life keeps getting in the way unfortunately. Meanwhile I have the eyeballs to think about. We live in strange times, don't we Donald!!

Doggie (I'll keep my eye out for more viewers)

Well I was post 15 & there are now 78 (about to be 79) new posts & I come back every time there is a new post so I count for more than 60 of those views.

Similar story here.
i would have contributed at least 50 eye balls to the total.

Well. It's rolled around again. Yes, the HTPAA public tool sale is on again on Sunday 9th of July 0900 to 1230. Bigger and better than ever. AND an opportunity to buy TITANS. All the books are sold unfortunately (except for a few I'm keeping for myself) however Titan chisels still abound in the wild and on my tables. This sale will be the second at the new venue at St Anthony's hall, corner of Grange and Neerim Roads, Carnegie.
Last sale (March) was a whopper with over 70 tables of old tools, this sale promises to be even bigger. You can't miss the venue, signs everywhere and parking aplenty in the streets around. My wife's best efforts to limit my purchases will hopefully be thwarted again by my sneakiness and pure underhanded evil. Yes. More Titans. Its like a drug.
Doggie

Well that's that!
All the books are gone except one in my library and another one I've scribbled all over for second edition notes. The remaining few copies trickled out by themselves over the last few weeks. Even so, queries keep coming in but alas to no avail. There ain't no more. With 20/20 hindsight I should have printed a larger number and advertised harder but I didn't at the time because I had no clue on the interest there would be on an obscure Australian tool that stopped production in the late Seventies (three decades ago). Anyway the pressure is on for a second edition both from punters wanting a copy and the volume of new material I've gleaned from numerous sources who wanted to assist. One suggestion was to just reprint the original but I'm sort of focused on improving it the best I can. I'm thinking hard cover next time too. I've almost won over the treasurer to have another go although she is very wary of letting me have access to money.

On another topic. There's been a couple of posts on "other" Titan products lately and yes indeed to my knowledge Titan made a swag of other edged tools from time to time such as saws, lino knives, cane knives, spade bits, plane irons, augers (for rail spike holes in sleepers), brace bits and no doubts other small items out of tool steel. However this is not really my patch as I am a one trick pony and that is chisels. Whatever information I have on the other Titan products is purely incidental to blood-hounding after chisel information. Quite often their chisel advertising was accompanied by associated products in an on-selling effort, most commonly it seems, auger bits. Even today these "other" tools are not particularly rare although they fly under the radar for the most part I have examples of auger bits, lino (or boot) knife, spade bits and of course a plane blade. I've seen both advertising and physical examples of their saws.
Doggie

Well
The Titan world has slowed down since all the books got gobbled up although a constant stream of people saying nice things about it and interest in a 2nd edition is still dogging (pun) me. However, my focus is on the next book which is making my better half jumpy already. Anyway the Titan collection continues to grow both in chisels and ephemera and I've had some amazing finds come to light over the last few months. I picked up thirteen (yes 13) new, old stock registered handles (with the paper decal) at the HTPAA tool sale last weekend. How do these things survive? They look brand new! A few weeks before that I scored an original 1950's Titan leather tool roll on ebay, complete with the gold leaf "Titan Chisels" on it. A month ago one of the book purchasers rang up and offered me a couple of the rare pattern makers chisels at a price I didn't have to lie to UKW about or eat rissoles for a week. So, all things Titan are not lost and my "Second addition changes" file continues to expand and haunt my days.
Regards
Doggie

Pics as requested from previous post by hiroller.New old stock handles.jpgPattern makers chisels.jpgLeather tool roll.jpg
Note: Chisels in the tool roll are from a different era.
Doggie

Doggie

Very nice score.

I have dreamt of similar pick ups (in a slightly different field) but never approached quite the same "as new" level of success.

Regards
Paul

I am now so old, I've probably forgotten what you are talking about Paul. I guess my "get up and go has got up and went" about a decade ago. I look, and probably feel like Mugarbe.

Old Doggie (no new tricks, bark or bite) just Titans (sad)

I think my penchant for the occasional innuendo , suggestive or provocative comment may have turned around and taken a great ugly chunk from the posterior!

I was in fact alluding to my vintage saw collection, but not wanting to go down the other track of which I am frequently accused and just as often guilty, which is digression and hijacking.

However, you have forced my hand .

You should take one leaf out of the venerable president's book and not give in (although I suspect if he does not give up the presidency very soon he may be forced to give up everything including life itself!)

Titan needs you.

Regards
Paul

Still planning a second edition Doggie? Looks like a great read!

Can anyone advise how much the book cost? I’m looking to buy a copy and want to put a fair price on my wanted ad.

See post #4 Long time coming
They were $89 plus postage.