While taking a break from moving to a new city ( long story) went around the block to check out a few stores that were Downtown.     Pawn Shop:    A few power tools, not much else.    Two "Thrift stores":  one was open....LOTS of clothes.    Second one wasn't open until NOON!    Looked in the windows, more clothes...

Went on another block, wandered into an Antique Store.     Nose started to itch ( uh-oh!!!)   Yep, back in the corner, something was RUSTY!      Found a large wooden chest that had five handsaws in the bottom.   Price tags.    TWENTY BUCKS????    EACH???   Ah, NO!     Up on a shelf sat a wood bodied Stanley, looked like a small Jack plane, maybe a foot long.    Price?   $12.00   Hmm, maybe...  Looked beside the jack to find a small block plane.     Price?   FORTY DOLLARS!!!!  For a Block plane?     Come on, I spent $6 for a block plane just like that one last month....Just a small Sargent Block plane.      May go back for the Stanley Woodie, but the rest???    Nope.

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Sign on pick up truck's back window..:' Save a Horse, ride a Cowboy'

$40.00???? Not even big enough for a floral display. They must be nuts.

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Gene
'The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.' G. K. Chesterton

Wow, someone was looking for someone with deep pockets.

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John Moody
Site Administrator


John Moody Woodworks
http://www.johnmoodywoodworks.com

When a brand new in the "box" Stanley/ Bailey can be had for about $31.00 + tax.    I still might go back for the wood bodied plane.    Looks like a nice little Jack plane size.    But I don't work at one of the HONDA plants around here, so $40.00 for a block plane is out of the question.    And those $20.00 handsaws?    I could go out and by a brand new irwin, or Stanley for half of that, even with tax.   I may just take a few things along the next time I go in there.....

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Sign on pick up truck's back window..:' Save a Horse, ride a Cowboy'