Thread: Monday night Show'n'Tell

Whoooo Hoooooo got all these today for 180 Bucks got that wow its Christmas Feeling was that excited couldn't wait got a bit of restoration work to do BUT am really happy

YAY ME!

Originally Posted by NewLou

Whoooo Hoooooo got all these today for 180 Bucks got that wow its Christmas Feeling was that excited couldn't wait got a bit of restoration work to do BUT am really happy

YAY ME!

Nice assortment.

Picked these up yesterday spotted them early in the day by 2ish in the afternoon they were still sitting there rather lonely no router plane to hang with. So I brought them home to become family with the No45 router I bought off a forum member just prior Christmas.


This strange looking Mortise gauge/Marking gauge looked up at me from another box

It'll keep you busy for a day or two cleaning & fettling, NewLou, but looks like a nice haul at that price. The 71 1/2 router looks like it's missing the adjuster screw, and I'd guess the 045 has a single blade? But just adding up a rough estimate for each of those planes in your haul, you seem to have done extremely well!

I wonder why the wooden knobs were removed from the 71 1/2 - pillaged to replace missing/damaged knobs on something else? That problem is easily fixed if you have a lathe, and they've kindly left both studs and the brass dome-nuts. I picked one of these up at a garage sale once, and because of inexperience & ignorance, I couldn't get much joy out of it. It went to a new owner, but I have since made my own woodie, which I get on with very well. In retrospect, I'm pretty certain I just didn't have the blade properly sharpened for the Stanley, there is no other reason I can think of why it was so reluctant to cut..

Happy cleaning & polishing....

Yes I was so Lucky am starting to re-tool after a long hiatus from Woodwork I'll try to show my progress..............Am particularly interested in getting the Router Plane going so thx so much for the advice. Muchly appreciated! Looks like i'll be making a tote n cant wait to get the woodies going I'm Planing down some beautiful River Redgum (Which I Love) at the moment so will come in very handy indeed...........

The 4 1/2 Stanley n the Large Marples Chisel is the prize ATM ............................. Should be fun doing them up!

Will Jump into the Cleaning, Polish, n Fettle with Joy

Regards Lou

Lou, you got a hoard!

I've a 36" 'er that belong with a an early mitre box. the both do their job... still.

Yes I was Soooooooooooooooo Lucky As IanW said I think a few bits got pilfered before i was able to get my hands on them BUT im hoping I can do a restoration down the track. The Wooden HAndplanes are the Gems the Plane Irons hold an edge and to be honest though Ive only Just started to play are my favourate Planes to use.....................I cant stop reaching for them and have fallen in love with the way they glide over stock.................

Since my leave from woodwork all my redgum slabs n such have dried Nicely so Ive been having a play n just started planning my Bench Build.......................Ive also got a few HNT Gordon Planes on Order that im really excited about n will hopefully receive at the end of the week.......................early days n baby steps at this stage though

Great to hear from you Clinton has been a while n OMG how the forums have grown LOL

Regards Lou

This is a bit belated for the Monday slot and if the truth is told it was last Monday week!

Despite living in this area since 2004 it is the first time I have been to the Toowoomba swap meet. It has a strong automotive bias, but also quite a few tools.

It is held at the Toowoomba show grounds and while some of it is sited in the flat arena area there is a large proportion of it on the side of a hill. I spent about five hours in the the hot QLD sun walking up and down that damned hill! Actually I realised I had come ill prepared when I saw people towing two and four wheeled carts and trolleys. I had a water bottle and that was it. During the course of the day I bought a few saws and soon realised I was not going to be able to cart them around with me.

I recalled a carpenter's caddy I had seen earlier in the day and went back to buy it just so I could carry out my purchases. One of these:

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I think I had six saws, a mitre box two rasps and this:

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It did not have any sand paper in it and I have just used a piece of old belt sander. It would be easy to make up, but for $5 I bought it from the same place as I got the carpenter's carrier.

I suppose it is a poor man's one of these, which I have to say is excellent:

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The sandpaper curls if left in the frame for any length of time which is what has happened here.

Regards
Paul

Paul, I seem to be missing the pictures of the saws and mitre box?

Pau,
You should try Ballarat swap meet in Victoria.

I think it was 12 maybe 15 kilometres of sites last year.
I'm pretty sure it's the biggest in the Southern Hemisphere.
You start walking at 6 am if your keen.
And yep I've seen lots of saws there.
Plus a jet engine and a tea spoon lol or two.

Cheers Matt

Originally Posted by hiroller

Paul, I seem to be missing the pictures of the saws and mitre box?

I knew it...I just knew somebody would say that!!. I reasoned that nobody would want to see more of my saws.

OK, tomorrow. Stay posted and i will see what I can do.

Regards
Paul

Originally Posted by Simplicity

Pau,
You should try Ballarat swap meet in Victoria.

I think it was 12 maybe 15 kilometres of sites last year.
I'm pretty sure it's the biggest in the Southern Hemisphere.
You start walking at 6 am if your keen.
And yep I've seen lots of saws there.
Plus a jet engine and a tea spoon lol or two.

Cheers Matt

Matt

I don't think I should really be confronted with that level of temptation. I have always been told that the Toowoomba event is the largest of it's kind, but the Ballarat event sounds humungus.

I don't know how many Kms it was, but that wretched hill got me. It seemed like there was a lot more up hill than down dale!!

Regards
Paul

Originally Posted by Bushmiller

Matt

I don't think I should really be confronted with that level of temptation. I have always been told that the Toowoomba event is the largest of it's kind, but the Ballarat event sounds humungus.

I don't know how many Kms it was, but that wretched hill got me. It seemed like there was a lot more up hill than down dale!!

Regards
Paul

Pretty sure I sore a Simionds saw there
O and its on flat land


Toowoomba 1800 sites
Ballarat 2500 sites
Now I know why I needed a week of after the last swap meet lol

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