Thread: Monday night Show'n'Tell

Thanks, must have been a bright idea on a Friday afternoon which should have been canned on Monday morning!

Originally Posted by Scribbly Gum

Wow in excelsis.
Great find Luban.
There is only one bigger than that and it is the 722.(very hard to find)
Yours has the proper front knob as well - adjustable for tilt and for/aft positioning.
Aren't they a great plane.- and like the Turners there aren't too many in the set.
Peter picked up a lovely 707 recently to fill a space in his number seven collection.
I don't have a 707 or a 722 but would very much like to.
Thanks for sharing.
Cheers
Tom

Hi Tom

oh gawwd.. I'm guessing you saw all the autosets on eBay last week that "dissappeared" a couple of days before ending I was digging under the couch for coins not that it would have got me there.

I haven't even looked for a catalog, I don't want to know what is is in the full set... we know where that leads

Thanks (I think) for planting the seed of the Sargent bug

Originally Posted by Slow6

Hi Tom

oh gawwd.. I'm guessing you saw all the autosets on eBay last week that "dissappeared" a couple of days before ending I was digging under the couch for coins not that it would have got me there.

Actually I haven't been watching ebay very closely at all lately so missed the autosets completely. Work has been busy and homelife busier.
Don't tell me there was a 722 ..............

Originally Posted by Scribbly Gum

Don't tell me there was a 722 ..............

as far as I could see there was the whole set.. individual auctions. even a 711 which I took to be 5 1/4 size.

Haha Luban- I think your One in- One out rule is funny as I don't get tht many planes (Chisels are a different story), but I don't ever think I could be that disciplined!!

Oh and that is a very cool tool you have there- I don't often get tool envy; but I feel a slight tingle in my stomach right now

Originally Posted by Eldanos of KDM

think your One in- One out rule is funny

FUNNY!!??.. I think it's downright stupid! I don't know why I made it and I wish I'd see reason and change it!

I'm thinking about putting to myself the proposition of a better rule.. Maybe if I want a new tool I have to clean the shed.. and no rainchecks!!.. I don't want to be knee deep in shavings with a drawer full of shed cleaning IOU's

I returned a couple of days ago from sorting out some of the stuff in my dad's shed, so this is a Thursday show'n'tell. I have a pretty decent set of my own tools by now, so I didn't really need anything more, but there is something about inheriting tools that your father used that most of us can't resist. I thought the following two, in particular might amuse the more mature audience:

1. An Eclipse 77 in its original packet. Note the price - 28/9 (why ninepence - couldn't they have just rounded it up or down a few pennies??). I have no idea when he bought this, but it must have been in the '50s so it wasn't a cheap tool then, when you consider the average wage wasn't much more than ten quid a week.

2. A Stanley 9 1/2 in spanking condition (but well-used if the blade is any guide), and again with it's original box. This was a bit more exy at 33/6 ($3.35!). It brings home to me that brand-name tools were never super cheap, & puts the arguments about LVs & LNs into perspective, for me.

There were other small things that I kept for nostalgia as much as anything else. One lot is a bunch of chisels, some of which are in very rough condition. In his declining years, the old pot's sight deteriorated severely, & he couldn't look after his stuff the way he did when I was a lad. A couple of these have been put on a belt sander & are going to need a LOT of elbow-grease to get the backs properly flattened again. He had also made a couple of very rough handles for two of them, & one was missing a handle altogether, so I have made some new ones. I think the originals on the Bergs are Birch, & I don't have any of that, so I used Olive - may as well make the ring-ins obvious. Pic. 3: From the left are the two rough handles, 5 Bergs, a 1" Diamond, and finally, a 1 1/2" Marples.

And I found a couple of firmer style chisels with no handles - one is a Titan (my first!) so I've made a Mulga handle for that (pic. 4).

Like a few others here, I have tried to keep some toolbox sanity by having a rule that any new acquisition is a replacement (the "one-in, one-out" rule), but I am going to have to find a few spare corners to keep these in! But first, there are a few afternoons' worth of flattening & grinding ahead.........

Cheers,

Nice Haul Ian Dads tools cab't be beat.

That Mulga handle is very pretty.

Originally Posted by Slow6

Nice Haul Ian Dads tools cab't be beat.

That Mulga handle is very pretty.

Woops - typo - it's actually Brigalow. Must have been tired froma all that driving.....

Hi Folks

A reaaaaaaally nasty bout of the flu took hold and has kept the family indoors for the last week or two so when we all finally felt well enough to leave the house we had serious retail withdrawals and scrambled to spend what was left from the lemsip and panadol kitty

We went for an aimless drive and ended up visiting Clunes, cute town, decent bakery

LOML got a $5 bag of old marbles and a big bag of cool old buttons.
No1 Daughter got a chocolate coin, a chocolate butterfly and a Chocolate mouse.
No1 Son got a chocolate beetle (I know.. ripped off!!)

Dad found this in the good kind of antique shop that just piles it in, doesn't clean it or display it.. just piles it in there!.. the kind of place that just screams ARGH.. TREASURE!!
I overpaid.. $50 but like I say, we'd been trapped indoors for more than a week and I had to get my share of the cash spent quick smart! I felt a little better when I got it home and took the nasty old piece of jarrah from the deck and found the Sweetheart badge.

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I haven't used one before, but it speaks to me. I find the big mitreboxes with 24" saws far too big and generally don't use them much anyway. Something that can sit under the bench and be used with a 12" backsaw appeals. It looks a litle skanky but there's no bad rust and there is really not much to it. Should be a pretty easy resto and I hope a reasonable user.

Great family story Luban.
I can soooo...... relate to that.
I remember back to the "recession we had to have" when we were paying 17% on our mortgages.....
We had all the kids in the family van and were driving somewhere far enough away that they had time to go to sleep.
We had hidden a precious block of chocolate that we didn't want to have to share, so only broke it out when the kids nodded off.
Don't underestimate the nose of a kid.............. we had hardly broken the first piece when from the back of the van came those immortal words ..........."I smell chocolate.......!!!"
AARRRGHHH!!!!

Back to the find of the week.
Very nice pickup Luban.
I am quite taken by the saw, did it come with the mitre box?
That handle looks superb.
Cheers
SG

Hi tom
Sometimes I find the kids "nose" for chocolate downright scary!
We have discovered M'n'M's recently.. the shell seems to keep the smell at bay but you have to keep your mouth tightly shut and if you let two M'n'M's knock together all is lost!!.. their little ears are just as well trained as their noses

Nah.. the saw was found a while ago, just in the photo for scale I think it featured in the garage sale episode of your odd one out thread. It is a lovely saw, It has definitely made it into my little gang of saws to restore.. I have been getting by with two backsaws for far too long. It's a "Russell & Horstiele" Sheffield. I have not researched it at all.. it's a little rough, more work than most. but sometimes you just fancy tools.. and I fancy that saw I'll make a template of the handle when I have it off, it is just right for my hand.. almost too small meaning when my hand is loose the saw stays put

I should see if Ray has it listed.

hi all, great thread, love the old tools.

My father gave me his fathers tools over the years and as grandad was an engineer they are all beautifully maintained. Ill get some picks on, Dad gave me his old tools as well. They're all tucked away , must pull them out and check them soon.

As for the one-in, one-out rule, here's what I do;
everytime I bring something into the workshop I make sure I take out at least one empty brown bottle.

This system has worked for me for many years. Tool in, bottle out. So now I have heaps of tools and no empty bottles! Perfect.A win/win situation.

Cheers, Billy

Originally Posted by Billy

This system has worked for me for many years. Tool in, bottle out. So now I have heaps of tools and no empty bottles! Perfect.A win/win situation.

Cheers, Billy

cool I like.

Nice Mitre box Luban, I've been a little lazy recently. I'll post a few picks of my recent finds up soon.
Danos