Thread: I just flooded the used handsaw market

Steve what were you thinking as you collected all those ???

its the dreaded wood itch that made him do it.

Originally Posted by Claw Hama

Steve what were you thinking as you collected all those ???

Perhaps the sellers saw him coming!

In music it's called "instrument acquisition syndrome " .I've had it with tools and insts. I'm better now.

I'm a reformed toolaholic too. A plane here and a saw there and before I knew it 200 or so plane variations, dozens of saws, books, magazines and other tools. 70% of it junk that I was going to get around to fix. Over the past two years I have slowly cleaned it out to other poor buggers with the same disease.

I'm nearly better now but still plenty of other crap could go out of my shed. I like to try to advertise on this site as I hope someone can get some use from the tools at a cheaper price, though some get snapped up by members who just resell on ebay to make a quick buck.

Col

Originally Posted by Lumber Bunker

It's really amazing how many saws one can gather with out even trying.

I try to keep them seperated, but they still manage to breed... speaking of which, I may just bid on one or two of those.... haven't got a D9 by any chance?

Regards
Ray

Col
I sympathise with you. I don't like going to clearing sales. A persons whole life is liad out on newly cut grass for the "vultures and crows" to pick through. All those articles have a story of aquisition attached to them which mean something to the original person and lost on the new owner.
I do like a bargain like the next bloke I don't buy cheap to sell on for a profit. Over the W/E I picked up a jointer from a fellow who couldn't raise a bid on it with Ebay before Christmas or the next time he put it on. I Emailed him with an offer which he accepted so I drove 300km to collect it. He said he bought it for $900 used it successfully for some years but needed to up date to a bigger machine to cope with his current projects, so this one had to go. I felt a little uncomfortable driving away with it for $600. It must be in the way I am wired (I blame my mother )

Where in the world did you manage to find a Spear and Jackson rip with thumbhole? Huh...

Ah, never mind I just read the description... very nice, I like it.

Regards
Ray

[QUOTE=chambezio;1113563]Col
< I don't like going to clearing sales. A persons whole life is liad out >

One of the worst experiences I have had regarding tools is when I was asked to go to Eltham (Vic) and give a fellow an idea of what some tools may be worth. It turned out that his neighbor had died, had no family and he had to sell up everything as he was executor of the will. The dead bloke came out from Germany to work on the Snowy River scheme and he had tools galore and all top stuff. Thousands of dollars worth and the neighbor had little idea of the value. I did the best I could to advise him and it was then sold accordingly. The dead blokes whole life was there in that workshop and I really did feel like I was picking over a dead mans bones. What also made me sick was when I was told how a few dealers had offered a pittance to take the whole lot for a few hundred dollars as if they were doing the neighbor a good turn. SCUM......
My wife and kids have little interest in what is in my garage and when I fall off the perch it will most likely all go in the skip to the tip. The tip scroungers will have a field day......

Col.

Col, your missus has my phone number hasn't she?Tell her I'll drop over and clear the horrid mess out for her

Originally Posted by Groggy

Col, your missus has my phone number hasn't she?Tell her I'll drop over and clear the horrid mess out for her

You are not a dealer are you? I have a 12 gauge loaded with SGs if you are.

Tool Dealers, Used car salesmen, Bankers, Indian door to door pests...... BANG.....

Col....

I've married into a family of "dealers" (not tool dealers, furniture). They aren't all bad, and some folks genuinely don't know what to do with "old junk". On many occasions we have sold folks a houseful of furniture and when they move they ask us to come and buy it back again. They know that with us they'll get a fair price but we will still make a profit, and it is a lot less effort than putting it all on ebay or having an auction or a garage sale. I didn't get it when I first became part of the family, as I'd had very little to do with second hand stuff before, but it makes sense. It is recycling at its most basic, making sure that stuff that is still useful finds a new home.

I know what you mean about seeing people's lives laid out. It has certainly changed my perspective on "stuff". Doesn't stop me from wanting more planes and more clamps though...

I think the saddest thing I ever came across as a dealer (even though I'm not one) was a family selling three children's coats that the grandmother of the children had hand-stitched. They were beautifully made, and had hardly been worn (if ever), and the family just didn't want them. I thought it was such a shame that they didn't want to keep them and pass them on to future generations. We bought them for our own children and I think of that family every time I see them in our house...

You should think of your tool collecting as a service to future generations, by preserving tools for them to throw money away collecting.

Where did i get them all... some from family... most from auctions clearing sales and the like... a few at a time, often get them in a box lot three of four at a time, may have been one good saw amoungest the lot or a plane in the box so the saws where free.. as you can see they are not all great.
You should see my users! I'll post a pic in a day or so.

doesn't look like they will all sell, so i'll relist all the unsold as a single lot and maybe someone can use them.

I don't rember where i got the spear and jackson saw with the thumb hole but its a reall sexy saw.

later