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[thedeeredude]

 













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[thedeeredude]

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[metalspinner]

That first tool looks like a threading tool, or a tap.  After drilling a hole, you center the tap in the hole, hold on to it with a wrench and turn the lathe on.  Of course, that is justa wild guess. :D

But, more generaly, it looks like somebody just came away from a sale of some kind.

[Sprucegum]

  8) Those are called "attachments" you can get real attached to tools like those  :D

[thedeeredude]

Hehe.  I lose my paycheck when I go to the old tool dealer.  It's a 2" tap.  I'm making my own bench vises.  I went with the intention of buying a couple chisels and a tenon saw.  Then I got to see his personal tool collection and his museum.     If anyone ever gets to the Northern Berks,Southern Lehigh general area and wants to see his shop, PM me for his info.  The chisels are going to get re handled and polished and used.  The saws are in real good shape yet and just need a quick filing.  I might put a more 18th century looking handle on the tenon saw.

[Dodgy Loner]

Nice find!  I've searched the flea markets and antique shops around here in search of old tools, but anytime I find anything decent it's always horrendously overpriced.  Most of my old tools come from eBay, but that's kind of a crap shoot, because there are a lot of unscrupulous vendors out there.

[thedeeredude]

Well, what ya looking for dodgy?  Im in old tool central up here.  And there's plenty of vendors on line.  Brass City Records/Tools, Patrick Leach's old tool list, woodnet/sawmill creek for sale forums.  If ya have anything in mind particularly I might be able to come across it.

[Dodgy Loner]

I've been trying to find some nice mortising chisels lately.  Not the sash mortising chisels that the extant tool manufacturers produce, but the real "pig stickers" that are meant to take a beating and then some.  I mostly use 3/8" and 1/4" mortises, and I've found some decent deals on ebay, but I'm a little wary after my last couple of purchases turned out to be junk.

(I just noticed that the popular casino game that I referenced in my last post was edited.  Didn't know gambling was so heavily frowned upon around here :D)

[Lud]

I've gotten a lot of tools at auctions...30 or 40 years ago.  Don't hardly go any more. Just a few each year.  When you don't have stuff,  auctions are great.  Like panning for gold.

Think about it.  Someone's 90 year old uncle passes, they have an auction, they don't put it on E-bay. 

Of course if the guy you're bidding against is aware of what it's worth, he may outbid you and then post it.  You lose!

[Dodgy Loner]

The South was not exactly a hotbed of fine woodworking in the 1800s.  I have picked up some very basic tools, like handsaws, drawknives and chisels at auctions, but you rarely find anything special down here.

A lot of the tools sold on eBay were picked up by tool dealers at auctions in New England and the Midwest.  Obviously, they wouldn't be doing it if they weren't making a profit, so while there is plenty of great stuff available, it's hard to find a good deal.

[Radar67]

I have a hard time finding good stuff here as well.

A couple of years ago I picked up a bit and brace in Illinois for under $3.00, down here, if you can find one, they are in the $20.00 range and usually rusted pretty bad.

A more recent purchase was a couple of No. 5 Bailey planes for $30.00 each. If they had not been in such good shape, I would have passed at that price.

If you can get it at a good price down here, it is usually junk. This is one area where the Northern guys have an advantage over us Southerners, good tools at a fair price.

[SwampDonkey]

A lot of the good hand tools here ends up in auction houses after a death and usually leaves the province or if it's real old becomes a possible museum piece like at King's Landing. The left over 'trash' they bring up to the small local auctions looked like they went behind the barn and pulled it out of the mud with the handle gone and the iron rusted to pieces.