These 20 Antique Woodworking Tools Are Worth Big Bucks

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You won't believe what the most expensive old tools in the world sold for at auction.

 

Closest I can come is I believe I have an Ohio Tool wood chisel.

I've seen a few of the planes in the shop I taught in. They hide in drawers no one finds other than by accident.  Never used by any current students or professor given all the machine tools we have.  

15 hours ago, 4DThinker said:

I've seen a few of the planes in the shop I taught in. They hide in drawers no one finds other than by accident.  Never used by any current students or professor given all the machine tools we have.  

 

Keep your eye open for when the school/state decides to auction this stuff off.  You might get a box full of them to fund your retirement!

Retirement is already well funded.  No room left to even temporarily store more tools.  Not a bad idea though for anyone else looking for a windfall.  State surplus tales include all sorts of tool bargains assorted facilities have abandoned.   Much would need some refurb work to get running/useful again.  That those planes still exist almost defies logic.  They were there when I went through the program back in the late 70s.  They had come with the facility my department inherited when the furniture curriculum was added. Survivors from an industrial arts program that doesn't exist any more.   The last few years I taught there, after having been shuffled around to 3 different shop facilities while our building was remodeled, I could often be heard wondering where such things had ended up.  Often telling students we "used to have" some tool that they could have used to solve their fabrication challenge.  Modern, usually lesser "replacements" were occasionally bought to replace "lost" tools we used to have.  Then we would find the drawer such was hiding in when we were looking for something else. 

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