Thread: some nice finds over the last month

Originally Posted by scrounger

3 nice finds

marples 2 inch socket chisel, spent a few hours on the blade to get it usable,
busted me toe up last week so I've got a little time to clean em up
scrounger

That's a beast of a Marples Scrounger. Sorry about your toe.

Nice little backsaw;should clean up very nicely.
The blade could be tapped out of the back to make the tooth line parallel to the back.
Lovely handle shape.
Cheers
Tony

Doggie love the marples too the last owner had ground it on both sides so I had to take off 5mm to get a nice cutting edge back on it + cleaned up a mushed socket top to .

Tony the poor little dovetail saw has had a real hard life - the blade looks like it's been beaten with a pointed hammer + it's pitted, the handle is cracked all over & has bug holes in it, the only good part is the brass back & bolts.

scrounger

Originally Posted by scrounger

Doggie love the marples too scrounger

Like you Scrounge I love the big stuff. Heavy great weapons grade chisels like 3/4 inch pig stickers and two inch Ward, Gilpin, Sorby, Nurse, whatever, sockets and mortice axes and four inch slicks and church door lock morticing chisels that you can hardly lift. Love it. Feels good. However, as a staid and relatively sophisticated Titan person I don't get to use the big stuff much (does anybody?) eventhough in my travels I've picked up a fair bit as a by-blow to my collecting. I try to make excuses to use some of the "beasts" though for jobs like hacking out mortices for post stays and fitting rails in the cattle yards but usually the chain saw or the new Lithium-ion battery powered portable wonders win out due to time pressure. Unfortunately we don't do very much green gum framing for our barns in the high country these days. Colourbonds the go. Still, the "big boys" look great in the rack.