Tool Talk
General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: john k on February 21, 2014, 10:29:13 PM
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Each of us have a yen for something we couldn't acquire in the past. Sometimes opportunity seems to knock only once. Collections are great to complete, but when they are it is anti-climatic. Ignoring this, what tools, or sets are you searching for, to scratch this itch. That one special and elusive tool that you saw once, and still hanker for. For me it would be a manual mortiser, or any wheelwright equipment.
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Tough to narrow it down to just one but someplace near the top would be any Hilary Klein miniatures that I need to fill out my collection. I could go on from there but again there is a list.
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Tough to narrow it down to just one but someplace near the top would be any Hilary Klein miniatures that I need to fill out my collection. I could go on from there but again there is a list.
Have Ralph make them for you :-).
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I would love to have a Williams Adjustable crowsfoot wrench to go with the others I have. I know where one is but the guy wont sell it to me. I don't see these come up on Ebay too often. Once I find this I can go on to other tools I really don't need.
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Wayne Andersons pinnacle chariot plane. Any one of 5, actually.
I would like the damacus over brass siderails, stuffed with ivory,
but I'd settle for heavy carved brass and ebony.
When we are all safely dead and long gone, these tools will be remembered and in the worlds top museums as solidly among the peak of plane craft ever accomplished on earth.
(for Gods sake don't tell him I said this heeheheheh)_
The saddest fact is, he is now making plain jane planes to satisfy a lower echelon market, because people do not realize how special these tools truly are.
Long ago it was Brian and Wayne and me. The Pep boys of handmade tools. We started kind of together and every detail of every tool was shared in advance and along the way between us. I was the "Old Man" who started first, so had lots of advice and some materials to share at the beginning. But Brian (the big loveable lummox kid) soon rose to a design height we marvelled at. We all stole design details back and forth from each other all the time, but Brian most of all. His brain just "went out there" into style and elegance no one had ever seen.
Then Brian disappeared into other things. One day just gone from us.
But Wayne kept at it. He went strictly into planes because that was what the market wanted at the tool shows. He wanted to make a job out of it because he was tired of working at the machine gun plant (who could blame him)
He went on a big run of miter planes because miter planes were in huge demand with no one making them anymore, and they were selling really well.
He did crazy over the top fantasy planes too, in exotic materials in super showy forms. Something for the "collector who has everything". (They didn't have anything like that, I guarantee it. )
There were smoothers smoothers smoothers made over the years. Every putz and his cousin from out of town wants a smoother.
But the few little chariot planes that came and went? And hardly anyone cared?
These started at a design level 2 miles above any other plane maker in history, and only got better from there. Just breathtaking. My brother, my hero.
I want one of Paul Hamler's #36 miniature transitional planes (my BIG brother in this life),
and one of John Maki's miniature Norris planes. John never made more than one of each though so odds of that are non existant.
I already have a silver Knowles patent miniature from Raph (not a misspelling) that I treasure. Thanks again Ralph.
Then for ordinary tools.........
There is a Stearns adjustable sole spokeshave I would like to have. Always wanted one and keep "just missing" them.
I need a great saw vise. Acme would be top choice, but barring that, either homemade heavy iron, or even a modern Grammercy vise. Those are pretty heavy. There is nothgn worse than a lightweight saw vise.
yours Scott
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Ken W here is your chance a Williams 1/2 drive adjustable crows foot came up on eBay. Low starting bid so far.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Williams-Sc-8-Crowsfoot-1-2-adjustable-wrench-Rare-/261412245813?pt=US_Hand_Tools&hash=item3cdd625135
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That's a hard question, I mean there are so many choices. Theres been a decent amount of tools I have passed up, usually cause money.
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If you're going to pin me down to just one(that's affordable), I'd say the J-9A Herbrand ratchet would be the one coveted item. If money were no object, then a cherry set of the Blackhawk "bullet" tools in their original torpedo case, but there's a lot of Plomb pebble out there too....lol. Would also hunt down the US Made John Deere tools(since that's all kinda in my backyard.....)
DM&FS
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I would love to have a Williams Adjustable crowsfoot wrench to go with the others I have. I know where one is but the guy wont sell it to me. I don't see these come up on Ebay too often. Once I find this I can go on to other tools I really don't need.
Had to look-up Williams Adjustable crowsfoot wrench.. Very interesting...
http://www.papawswrench.com/vboard/index.php?topic=2477.0
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http://melmillerantiquetools.com/variations.htm
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When I first saw this post, I thought, nope I like ALL tools.
But then it came to me.
I'd love a Mossberg set that actually has ALL the tools it left the factory with.
I have a half dozen that are "close", but complete? nope.
Skip
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A complete "set" of Dalzell axle wrenches. Got a #19 today, that makes 8 or 9 out of ??? Seems like new ones pop up all the time.