July 30, 20178 yr Took a day off from the shop today.....yard sales were a bust....too nice of a day to go into the shop....Hauled the Boss, and my son off on a Road Trip... Springfield, OH has an Antique Mall.....HUGE one.....8 big rooms of stuff....Number one rule...IF a tool is INSIDE a glass case...take a look, but keep on walking. There was this one stall.....looked like someone had emptied both a Sears and a woodcraft tool section, and just piled it up on a BUNCH of shelves....Dug through over 100+ chisels....looking for a couple wood handled ones I could use.. The wide one is 1-1/4", the other is 1/4"...$6 for the biggie, $1 for the wee one... Sharp? Not even close. But, we have ways... Hoops? Not sure IF I'd hit the little one....biggie has been hit a few times too many.. For $7 and change? I think I can make do....Walked around in the place for over 2 hours, and only saw about half of the stuff. Supper was at Five Guys Burgers.....then a nice drive home.....not too bad of a day...
July 30, 20178 yr Nice finds especially the 1/4" one...looks like a mortise chisel? Apparently Springfield has this too...Springfield Antique Show & Flea Market Looks like that would be worth a trip sometime...little pricey on admission IMO for the May & September events, but I'm a cheapskate!
July 30, 20178 yr Author More on the road stuff today... Needed to fill the gas tank....wasn't paying the $2.36 a gallon here in town.....drove out to Huntsville, OH.....$2.04 a gallon. Stopped in at the Junk-n-the-Box and did a bit of shopping.....entire shelf of hand planes....pass. There was a large box on the floor "anything in the box- $1" Ok, dug around for a while....picked two items and paid my $2.. Rosewood, Brass and steel...blades are 9" long. haven't tried to check them for square, yet.. BTW on the shelf above the box, there was another, smaller square...$5? Pass. Had to take the Boss to the grocery stores, then back home. BTW....Pastor LOVED his new desk!!!!!!!!
July 30, 20178 yr 1 minute ago, HARO50 said: Should this thread MAYBE be moved to the regular "Hand tools" section? John Yeah, probably...gonna guess Steven clicked on the sub-link by mistake...easy to do now in this forum especially after a day trudging through flea markets... @John Morris...would you please move this thread...with @steven newman approval & awareness. Thanks in advance, Dave
July 31, 20178 yr Author Ok...plan today was just to rehab a couple items.. Cleaned them both up...did a bit of sharpening. Got the hoop to fit better, and gave the wood a coat of BLO. Was just going to do these two... But this 9" Square wanted cleaned up ( put it to use, later...)and then the other one.. Those are not paint spots....they be brass pins, they have to hold the brass edge piece in place.. Kind of a "T" shaped thing. Handles were given a wipe-on, wipe-off coat of BLO....got to thinking..... Maybe I could do a little something today.......
September 1, 20178 yr Liking that big chisel! Chisels have become a flea market weakness for me of recent. Its an excuse for me to use my lathe. Some nice items there...
September 1, 20178 yr I am a sucker for American made chisels. Been a shortage around here for them. Haven't had a good find in a couple years now. I like those.
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