Thread: Bridge City Tool: Adjustable Angle Square No AS-24 Bridge City Tool Works USA.

Bridge City Tool: Adjustable Angle Square No AS-24 Bridge City Tool Works USA.


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Greetings!
John Economaki’s Bridge City Tool Works have “collectable” status so determining a sale price somewhere between ‘throw-it-away-for-peanuts and ‘she-must-be-dreaming’ is tricky!

Example of a couple of retail prices:
www.toolexchange.com.au
AU$279.00
www.jimbodetools.com
US$95.00 [AU$144.00]

I am going to ask $200 and either this item is what you want but you think I am dreaming so I invite you to make a fair offer, or if it doesn’t matter how much you have to pay to own one of these she’s all yours!

Do you want to own a BCT Adjustable Angle Square?

This item is second hand but in perfect condition.

CASH + Pick up preferred,
local delivery can be negotiated for a genuine buyer, or
direct bank transfer + Auspost to send Australia wide - carefully wrapped/packaged of course [item weighs 790 grams].

Check out my other items for sale too!

Kind regards KG Lang

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Excerpt from www.woodworkersjournal.com

JOHN ECONOMAKI DESIGNER OF TOOLS BY JOANNA WERCH TAKES 4th March 2015
...John Economaki, the founder of Bridge City Tool Works, developed a severe allergy to wood dust, likely triggered by rosewood, in the early 1980s.
Many of the Bridge City Tool Works pieces, on the other hand, have already become collectible.
Early versions of that tool, and others for Bridge City Tool Works, incorporated rosewood into their construction.
Although John still has a supply of rosewood on hand (purchased before it was included on the CITES Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species) list, he now prefers to avoid using it, particularly for something he doesn’t deem worthy of the wood.
“I used to have a rule that if you were going to use exotics, the piece or the tool should last as long as the tree would have lived in its natural life, usually a couple hundred years. Some monkey gave up a home so you could have a stripe in a cutting board? That’s not right.”


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