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28th October 2016, 07:46 AM #61
All the way to Brooklyn to buy a Titan chisel - Is there no lengths this guy won't pursue in the attainment of Titan Nirvana?
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Nick
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28th October 2016, 04:52 PM #62Senior Member
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Not really.
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4th November 2016, 07:46 PM #63Senior Member
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Just a reminder. The HTPAA tool sale is on this weekend (at Glenferrie Primary school as usual). Members tomorrow evening and all comers on Sunday 0900 to 1300. At least fifty tables of the usual fabulous old tools for sale and tool experts as far as the eye can see. I'll be there in my usual corner with plenty of juicy?? Titans and the last few copies of the book. Got a good write up in the WA tool club newsletter and sold a few over there last month. Sold a fair few Titan sets this year too (101's and 136's) on ebay so I'm bringing a couple along this sale. Unfortunately I usually buy more tools than I sell at these events. At least that what SWMBO always tells me. Hope to see a couple of you there.
Dick
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4th November 2016, 10:03 PM #64
Dick
I may get along to one of those sales in the future. I hope you will take some pix.
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PaulBushmiller;
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9th November 2016, 06:40 PM #65Senior Member
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Paul
Kind of symbolic you asking for a pic because it looks like we'll be shifting venue for the next (March) sale. So goodbye to Glenferrie , hello new place (as yet undecided). Anyway the sale went well as usual and I dredged some dollars towards the purchase of collectables (you know what). Missed out on more than I bought though, an illustration - We were setting up and I was busting my hump pushing our wagon loaded with boxes down the length of the hall to my tables when I spied a Turner 4 1/2 plane in top nick out of the corner of my eye for $45. I told the lady I liked it as I was passing and delivered my load and went straight back. IT WAS GONE. STREWTH! How quick do you have to be?? That little episode marked my whole day. I also missed out on a Norris shoulder plane for $150. So bloody sad. So. Sold two more books now six books left. Oh. If anyone's got any ideas of a suitable venue for a tool sale within a 5K radius of Hawthorn?? let me know. Pic of probably the last sale included.
2016 HTPAA tool slae.jpg
Regards Dick
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10th November 2016, 06:17 AM #66New Member
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CONGRATULATIONS On the book writers are always underpaid ! Do you have a copy of your book for sale sitll keen for a copy before this information is lost
Cheers Andy in sw wa
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10th November 2016, 04:42 PM #67
Dick
Clearly you have to be quick!
I remember an old, and now departed, uncle used to say at the dinner table "There's only the quick and the dead." At least missing out for you wasn't fatal.
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23rd December 2016, 09:01 AM #68Senior Member
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Well
Xmas rolls around again and it's ten months since the book gamble was commenced. Fortunately they basically all sold except a few I've kept for me and a couple that I'll roll over on ebay to keep the flag flying. Mother is very happy. 2nd addition is not on the horizon yet but I'm still gleaning bits and pieces for when it does. Been a hell of an experience though. I wrote up the writing and self publishing process from a lecture I gave on the subject at the HTPAA conference this year. It appears in the latest edition of the "Tool Chest". I basically posit that self publishing is the ultimate vanity. Anyway, thanks to all those Formites who bought a copy of the book. I am eternally grateful even though I lost money on every copy I sold. (Such is vanity) But what a ride. Can't wait to do it all over again. Research on the next book has been started.
Merry Christmas to all.
Dick
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30th January 2017, 09:28 AM #69Senior Member
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Very chuffed. Peter Robinson, who put a lot of Titan stuff (ex McPherson's catalogues) up on his web site a few years ago bought one of the last copies. He gets a couple of mentions in the tome so that should make him smile. Although he wasn't the inspiration to do the book in the first place his start way back then (2009 I think) was certainly grist for my mill. Any way I hope he enjoys it. Meanwhile, lots of pressure for a 2nd edition growing although she who holds the purse strings has a death grip on the top of the purse.
Happy New Year to everyone.
Dick
PS. New venue for the HTPAA sale (in March) is St Andrews school hall in Carnegie. More info later.
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30th January 2017, 01:00 PM #70GOLD MEMBER
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That's a great way to close the loop.
I'm sure it would be interesting to get Peter's feedback.
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8th March 2017, 12:42 PM #71Senior Member
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Here's one for the grand kids.
Grandpa just had to look up his own book to answer a question on Titan chisels.
Obviously the inheritance is not far away.
Doddering Doggie
Ex Titan Lord.
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8th March 2017, 02:30 PM #72
was that the 1st or 2nd Edition?
regards from Alberta, Canada
ian
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8th March 2017, 06:55 PM #73
but was the entry correct or is there debate?
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Nick
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22nd April 2017, 09:45 PM #74Senior Member
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Long time coming
goodness Dick, the book is great! I haven't finished it yet but just love it and will be 1st in line when the 2nd edition comes along.
So much information that I started looking for back then, but really just didn't have time for all the research. Thanks for the mention - yep it makes me smile but also a little sad that i left that work unfinished.
also, many thanks, your book popping up on ebay has got me thinking of old tools and woodwork again, something that work and life pushed aside the last 5 years or so.
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28th April 2017, 04:35 PM #75Senior Member
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Thanks for the kind words Peter. The second edition is not too far away as stuff keeps popping up to warrant it, As an example, only the other day I bought a 1949 one page Ad from the old "Bulletin" off ebay that states - "Titan's "new" chisel (a 236 or, Light socket bevel) was now available". SO, this particular chisel has a 1949 origin NOT 1945 as I thought. To most (normal) folk a four year error in origin of a tool made nearly 70 years ago doesn't matter but to a Titan pathetic it does. Anyway, I'm collecting all these additions and corrections religiously to weave them in to the mix. Got to finish the current book first though and there is probably a year or two's intense work on the "in house" accountant to consider as well. She is vary wary of self published books about obscure subjects for thin markets written by obsessed tragics
Anyway, glad you loved the book Peter.
Doggie.
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