Flea Market and antique shop discoveries.

I fine haul of oxidation my friend. How do you break vice jaws?

-- A positive attitude will take you much further than positive thinking ever will.

A whole load of diamonds in the rough!

-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"

Great find Don! My wife wouldn’t see me for weeks with a find like that. I’d be locked in the workshop putting new life back into all those old tools. That should keep you out of trouble for a while!!

-- Every day above ground is a good day!!!

great score! what does that handle with the router planne iron do?

central PA flea markets were all dry holes today; one guy wanted $85 for a cracked #4 another wanted $400 for a millers falls that he said was a buck Rogers (it wasn’t, just red plastic handled smoother) almost bit on a transitional router plane but it looked like a horse had chewed on it

-- John - Central PA - http://affyx.wordpress.com

Wow!
You did good.

I need to hit the fleamarket.

-- I'll be a woodworker when I grow up. HHHOPKS

Nice haul!! Things have been very, very dry around here lately but its still early. I’ll be curious to see how that #60 shave cleans up.

-- Dave, Colonie, NY

this aint right, the local flea market here has one guy that sells tools, same guy same tools everytime..
I have picked up and looked at every plane he has at least five times… I need to branch out.. great find.. I would also ask how does one break the jaws on his bench vise.. just how big was that hammer? ...

-- Papa...

Lordy, you people up there in Yankeeland just make me sick. The only planes I can find down here are ones that were dug up in a field (really). Once in a while you can find a used Craftsman that looks like it has been run over by a bulldozer or a little old no-name block plane that somebody used for a hammer to bust up concrete.
But do I want to move up there? Nah.

Have a good’un
Joe

-- rejo55, East Texas

A picker’s honey hole, man that a nice looking haul great work now off to a whole lotta elbow grease….lol enjoy thanks for sharing…BC

You guys have the best antique stores up there.

-- Mauricio - Woodstock, GA - "Confusion is the Womb of Learning, with utter conviction being it's Tomb" Prof. T.O. Nitsch

The tools thank you. They’re safe now.

-- Andy - Old Chinese proverb says: "If you think something can't be done, don't interrupt man who is doing it."

Oh someone had fun.
Good finds.
We all know they will be brought to life with your hands.

-- "My mission in life - make everyone smile !"

A grand day out!
Those old leg vices are great. I’ve used them at my mates Blacksmith forge. Worth every penny IMHO.

-- Gossamer shavings just floating around the back yard….-Bandit

very nice days work . Alistair

-- excuse my typing as I have a form of parkinsons disease

So how do you brake the jaws on a bench vise. Stick a trailer hitch in it, grab a very large pipe wrench and slide a 4’ pipe over the pipe wrench. Then put your whole 240 pounds into it. It was that hard really. I’m thinking the new one will be harder.

-- http://timetestedtools.net - Collecting is an investment in the past, and the future.