Thread: Record price for Titan chisel

Originally Posted by _fly_

My little set is finally taking shape.

Although I have some funny sizes?
Maybe someone can shed some light of them

Peter

Fly. Titan offered a service where you could order special sizes of most of their usual chisel types and many organisations took advantage of this for their own particular purposes, especially in the smaller sizes. These funny sizes are not all that rare although seconds, downgrades and off spec chisels are not unknown. A lot of this "funny" stock became available when Stanley moved production from Hobart to Nunawading and according to anecdotal evidence dumped truckloads at the tip and scrap dealers.

In regards to yours set.
I could be wrong but the fourth chisel from the left looks to be a light tang (131) rather than a heavy tang (101) which I assume you are collecting. Clues are the thinner neck and collar which is much smaller than its mates on either side and the handle collar ferrule. Then again it might be just a generational anomoly caused by collecting a "set" across differing blade stamps.

Finally. I can offer you a 1 1/4 and a 1 1/2 at $20 each.

Originally Posted by orraloon

Good sense sometimes departs when the bidding gets keen. That is why you need discipline when you go after things on the bay. On the other hand I may just be too tight. I reckon there is a lot of auction remorse out there at times.
Regards
John

Perspective of a sort returns.

Since the $267 1/8th Titan went off on 29/7, things are sort of back to normal on the Bay. the very, extra rare, never seen and super special 1/8ths have turned up eight times since that day and the price has plunged to around $70 for a good example. Strangely a superb 3/16th example went for $26 last week. Go figure!

The nice doctor has said I won't care about this crap so much If I keep on my medication. What he doesn't know is that I'm giving them to the cat who is pregnant. I'm hoping for Tittens.

Maybe this is not relevant.... if so then apols in advance.
When seeking planer blades (knives) for my Robland x31 online I of course ended up at evilbay.

So anyway they are around the $30+ postage give or take and available all over including the UK etc.

But I see one advert where they are 154UK pounds a set!

So out of curiosity I guess - I emailed the guy asking why so dear - are they some rare alloy that stays sharp forever or something?

He ends up replying to tell me that - when he is "out of stock" he lists the knives at ridiculous prices so that no one bids - BUT it preserves his ad from being deleted and him having to completely re write it when he does get new stock... he just edits the advertised price back to normal levels!

This is his way of saving time to run his evilbay online store thingy..... just prevents evil bay deleting and losing his listings, while he's out of stock.... jack the price way up - maybe that's what your seeing with the titan chisels?

Just a suggestion... first time I had come across it.... so I got curious and asked was all.

Cheers