billjustbill
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This was the local flea market weekend....and I didn't go! Why? On Saturday and Sunday morning at 9:00 a.m. it began because an estate sale had posted one picture that caught my eye. A bucket of antique draw knives...
I spent two mornings at an estate sale of a fellow that had to be a part genius and the rest hoarder. The head of the estate sale company was heard to say "We only had two days to prepare the house and "THIS."
An upper income neighborhood, and a $300,000 home, was lived in by an 86 year old man whose health had declined in recent months. All the large power tools were already gone. Only a small pen lathe and the Hawk scroll saw. The space was crammed in a two car garage, a 16x16' room and another area of 8'x16' were piled hip-high with stuffed boxes, and a large cabinet in the center of the room was a two sided cabinet on which a small 4' wood lathe was mounted. Wire shelving went to the ceiling. His workbench was stacked with boxes and tools 3 feet high. It was awful and great at the same time.
On the second morning, everything was half price. I mainly came back to find the special base for the Gyro vise....and ended up finding two. The large "Hawk" scroll saw had not sold. The estate sale boss said I could have it for $150.00 plus another $50 for more buckets I'd filled with workshop candy. The way the saw was ordered, it has $240.00 accessories of extra wide front leg adapters so one can sit down and use it. If I bought the same 226 model saw, new, today, with $150 flat shipping cost, the leg adapter accessories, and the 26" depth cutting capacity, it would cost $1,800.00.
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There are $250.00 worth of accessories and special wide legs so you can sit and saw....
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This fellow had old hand saws, antique and new wood vises, large wood chisels, cast iron and solid Cherry levels, spoke shaves and draw knives by the dozens ( the last two were use to make wagon wheel spokes, hoe and shovel handles, etc.) The estate sale owner had marked some too high, but some were $7 and $8. I was buying in bulk and formed a line of 4-gallon plastic pool chlorine buckets with the rest being in 5 gallon buckets or long plastic tool cases. Auger wood drilling bits number close to 1,000, all other bits for the old brace and bit could be found by the dozens. The old brace "tang" had bits for most any width of screwdriver slot, spoon bits, and old bits that fit the old European braces.
Hunting through all the stacked junk, and knowing that the other 25 guys were looking at what the could get, the pace was exhilarating and a combination of "hunting Easter eggs and unwrapping an almost endless amount of Christmas presents "you've always wanted"..... All and all, it took two pickup loads and the backseat floorboard filled to get it all home. Twelve buckets the first day and thirteen buckets the second day. The final count and the extras: 25 buckets full averaged less than $25 a bucket. Yet more in clear and wooden cases that won't begin to fit inside them
There were two pickup loads of buckets I came home with. I gladly missed going to the flea market! I could have spent the next 5 years scouting the local flea markets and never gathered the assortment of old tooling, much less found them at such prices. Not counting the three wood vises, and the red Gyo "Parrot Vise", the Rockler table saw cross cut sled, nor counting the two handed Beam boring drill, or the "Wards No. 83" solid cherry level and Stanley cast iron 18" level, or all the axe, sledge hammer, claw & ball peen, adz, hatchet, and pick handles, the $25 a bucket really cost less than that. Some of the wooden adz handles have the "Belknap- Bluegrass" paper label even though the company went out of business in the 1950's. It will take me at least six wonderful months to sort, keep, and "think" about selling.....
Sales like this are "out there", so keep looking, too!
Bill
I spent two mornings at an estate sale of a fellow that had to be a part genius and the rest hoarder. The head of the estate sale company was heard to say "We only had two days to prepare the house and "THIS."
An upper income neighborhood, and a $300,000 home, was lived in by an 86 year old man whose health had declined in recent months. All the large power tools were already gone. Only a small pen lathe and the Hawk scroll saw. The space was crammed in a two car garage, a 16x16' room and another area of 8'x16' were piled hip-high with stuffed boxes, and a large cabinet in the center of the room was a two sided cabinet on which a small 4' wood lathe was mounted. Wire shelving went to the ceiling. His workbench was stacked with boxes and tools 3 feet high. It was awful and great at the same time.
On the second morning, everything was half price. I mainly came back to find the special base for the Gyro vise....and ended up finding two. The large "Hawk" scroll saw had not sold. The estate sale boss said I could have it for $150.00 plus another $50 for more buckets I'd filled with workshop candy. The way the saw was ordered, it has $240.00 accessories of extra wide front leg adapters so one can sit down and use it. If I bought the same 226 model saw, new, today, with $150 flat shipping cost, the leg adapter accessories, and the 26" depth cutting capacity, it would cost $1,800.00.
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There are $250.00 worth of accessories and special wide legs so you can sit and saw....
Scroll_Saw_Accessories
This fellow had old hand saws, antique and new wood vises, large wood chisels, cast iron and solid Cherry levels, spoke shaves and draw knives by the dozens ( the last two were use to make wagon wheel spokes, hoe and shovel handles, etc.) The estate sale owner had marked some too high, but some were $7 and $8. I was buying in bulk and formed a line of 4-gallon plastic pool chlorine buckets with the rest being in 5 gallon buckets or long plastic tool cases. Auger wood drilling bits number close to 1,000, all other bits for the old brace and bit could be found by the dozens. The old brace "tang" had bits for most any width of screwdriver slot, spoon bits, and old bits that fit the old European braces.
Hunting through all the stacked junk, and knowing that the other 25 guys were looking at what the could get, the pace was exhilarating and a combination of "hunting Easter eggs and unwrapping an almost endless amount of Christmas presents "you've always wanted"..... All and all, it took two pickup loads and the backseat floorboard filled to get it all home. Twelve buckets the first day and thirteen buckets the second day. The final count and the extras: 25 buckets full averaged less than $25 a bucket. Yet more in clear and wooden cases that won't begin to fit inside them
There were two pickup loads of buckets I came home with. I gladly missed going to the flea market! I could have spent the next 5 years scouting the local flea markets and never gathered the assortment of old tooling, much less found them at such prices. Not counting the three wood vises, and the red Gyo "Parrot Vise", the Rockler table saw cross cut sled, nor counting the two handed Beam boring drill, or the "Wards No. 83" solid cherry level and Stanley cast iron 18" level, or all the axe, sledge hammer, claw & ball peen, adz, hatchet, and pick handles, the $25 a bucket really cost less than that. Some of the wooden adz handles have the "Belknap- Bluegrass" paper label even though the company went out of business in the 1950's. It will take me at least six wonderful months to sort, keep, and "think" about selling.....
Sales like this are "out there", so keep looking, too!
Bill
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