Really good week

**code4pay** · 6th July 2013, 09:50 PM

I had a great week this week and wanted to share it with some people who will appreciate it.
It started Sunday the wife and I went to the tip to see If there was any thing of interest and found zilch. So driving back home we stopped at the local second hand shop, it rarley has any thing of interest but today I spotted a stanley plane in the window. I didn't really want another number 4 plane and it was $45.00 so no bargain. But the wife points to a box and says honey there are some old chisel s in here. I take a look, and there is a box with about 11 chisels, wards, titans,Matheson and 1 berg. Ranging from $7.00 for the Matheson to $3.00 for the berg!. The 1 1/2 inch titan was a whole $5! Got the lot for 35.00 considering up to now I have had one stanley one tekcraft and one pfiel chisel this was great. To add to my excitement about two weeks ago I showed my wife a pic of a miller falls number two drill on the internet pointing out how great it looked. There in the same box was the same for $35.00 maybe not a bargain but a rare thing to find down here. So we travel home I'm pretty stoked and I decided it its time I go and get my bevel guage from my neighbor who has had it for two years. He had a bit of trouble finding it so I went with him into his shed where I spied the back of a plane, "oh you have a plane" I say, "oh yeah" he says "do you want it"? So I head home with my bevel guage and a free no5 plane! This is great as I have a #4 and a #6 but no #5.

So the week is off to a good start and I'm pretty happy thinking of all the projects I have to do getting these tools into shape. But things get even better. Sitting watching tv on Tuesday night the wife is on her iPad checking gumtree when she states there is a "free wood lathe on here". I have never really considered wood turning but have always thought it would be great to make some chisel handles like you guys do so I ring the number and sure enough she is giving away her "tough" wood lathe and turning chisels. Apparently she had tried selling out with no luck and the recent storms had damaged the shed it was in. Wednesday night I head over with a couple of guys from work, (these lathes are cast iron and weigh a ton), the lathe and the tools a rusty but she assures me it works ok and it is free anyway. When we got it home I gave it a quick clean, put some wood in it, turned it on and after sharpening a chisel made some square wood round, bargain!
Armed with some YouTube training this morning I tried my hand a making a replacement handle for my cheap a very ugly tekcraft chisel. Very happy with the result.
Hope next week is just as good!

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**Scott** · 6th July 2013, 10:30 PM

Great story, thanks for sharing! I had some minor luck with a box of old Titans the other week, 8 of them for $12. Just need to give the steel some love, turn some new handles and I'll be a happy boy.

**1thumb** · 6th July 2013, 11:38 PM

enjoy the good weeks makes up for the 51 bad ones

nice score by the way

**pmcgee** · 6th July 2013, 11:55 PM

Originally Posted by code4pay

It started Sunday the wife and I went to the tip to see If there was any thing of interest

Heh heh heh ... these are my people

Paul

**IanW** · 7th July 2013, 09:44 AM

Nice score indeed, code4pay, but the plane is a super score! Lovely old low-knob type, and it looks like everything is intact - I'd gladly take it off your hands for 10 times the price you paid for it.

You did a very convincing job on your chisel handle for someone who hasn't made square wood round before. Top marks all round...

Cheers,

**jimbur** · 7th July 2013, 11:12 AM

Marvelous and it sounds as if you have a wife in a million.

**Sturdee** · 7th July 2013, 01:29 PM

Originally Posted by jimbur

Marvelous and it sounds as if you have a wife in a million.

She sounds like my wife so look after her as wives like that are worth their weight in gold.

Peter.

**code4pay** · 7th July 2013, 06:24 PM

Originally Posted by IanW

Nice score indeed, code4pay, but the plane is a super score! Lovely old low-knob type, and it looks like everything is intact - I'd gladly take it off your hands for 10 times the price you paid for it.

You did a very convincing job on your chisel handle for someone who hasn't made square wood round before. Top marks all round...

Cheers,

Thanks Ianw, not sure about the plane it has a Stanley blade and no5 written on it but no other markings either on the body or the cap?

**Doggie** · 7th July 2013, 06:26 PM

Originally Posted by 1thumb

enjoy the good weeks makes up for the 51 bad ones

nice score by the way

Good weeks are terrific but too many good weeks or even bad weeks lead to an immense accumulation of stuff over time until the very foundations of the house or your partnership are threatened. At some date we will all have to make hard decisions about what to keep collecting and what has to go. I am now in this position hence I will be manning two tables at the HTPAA sale this weekend (13/14 July at Glenferrie Primary school on Sunday morning), mostly chisels (about 200) and planes (about 50 metal and wood) and other stuff. There will be no Titans available this time but plenty of English chisels. All Ok stuff but could be outshone by a lot of star offerings from other members.

AND (surprise!!!) my wife is going to help me.

**code4pay** · 7th July 2013, 06:27 PM

Originally Posted by Sturdee

She sounds like my wife so look after her as wives like that are worth their weight in gold.

Peter.

Yeah she's a keeper 20 years plus married, if I ever get stuck making some thing I ask her advice and she always has a good idea. She is very practical.

**code4pay** · 7th July 2013, 06:33 PM

Originally Posted by Doggie

Good weeks are terrific but too many good weeks or even bad weeks lead to an immense accumulation of stuff over time until the very foundations of the house or your partnership are threatened. At some date we will all have to make hard decisions about what to keep collecting and what has to go. I am now in this position hence I will be manning two tables at the HTPAA sale this weekend (13/14 July at Glenferrie Primary school on Sunday morning), mostly chisels (about 200) and planes (about 50 metal and wood) and other stuff. There will be no Titans available this time but plenty of English chisels. All Ok stuff but could be outshone by a lot of star offerings from other members.

AND (surprise!!!) my wife is going to help me.

Yeah, I am only starting out so I do actually need the tools, but I can see the issue. I have to keep reminding my self to finish the stool I'm working on rather than playing with the new toys.

**IanW** · 7th July 2013, 07:06 PM

Originally Posted by code4pay

Thanks Ianw, not sure about the plane it has a Stanley blade and no5 written on it but no other markings either on the body or the cap?

I think it's the real deal nevertheless. I know next to nothing about dating Stanley planes, but there are folks who frequent this area who know a great deal, & they may be able to help you pin it down to within a few years of its manufacture. The low knob puts the plane in the pre-1925 era, but it has a lateral adjuster, so it is post 1885.

Some bodies have few markings, my dad's old 5 1/2 is a Stanley, sure enough, & from about the same era as yours. It has "Bailey" on the toe, a couple of patent dates, and "5 1/2" cast on it, but no mention of Stanley anywhere. The original lever cap was unmarked, but I replaced it with a 'modern' cap, i.e. one with the kidney-shaped screw hole & "Stanley" cast across the front because it had a huge chunk broken off one side (what DO people use them for!?). The original blade has long gone to wherever old blades go, & I've given it a LV HSS blade instead. So the only mention of 'Stanley' on this plane is actually spurious. It'll give the collectors of the future something to think about.....

Cheers,

**The Muss** · 8th July 2013, 11:18 PM

What great finds and a great weekend!!! Hours and hours of fun.

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