Fun at the Fleamarket

[Downwindtracker2]

I enjoy talking to the sellers:
-Seller " Talking to my neighbour, she said her cat died. The cute little fluffy white one?"
-Neighbour "Yes, I want to get one just like her."
-Seller "Why would you want two dead cats?"

I bought a Sandvik hack saw from him, one of the high tension lever style, for $5

At the seller next to him I picked up a sliding bevel gauge. 25 cents he said,so I gave him a Loonie. He complained about having to work to get the change from his pocket. I then picked up a square. 75 cents. You know I said, I just so happen to have 75 cents in my pocket.

The sliding bevel gauge is a I&D Smallwood of Birmingham, brass and rosewood with a large knurled flat nut and the square is a Stanley Handyman, but with a cast iron head. 60s?

Also found was a 1/4" Sandvik black handled chisel, but I think it's one of the Dutch Nooitgedagt ones. $1

This is not a hand tool,but will be handy around the house, a Hilti TE12 ,a 3/4" capacity concrete drill.$80

[p_toad]

Good thing you had the change.




 

Nice...   always nice to find good stuff...  

[EricU]

glad you have fun at the fleamarket.  I got out of the habit when all the sellers had piles of rusty junk at top $ prices.  My favorite was a Stanley #1 that had apparently been stored in a salt water spray.  $500

[Bill_Houghton]

I enjoy talking to the sellers:
-Seller " Talking to my neighbour, she said her cat died. The cute little fluffy white one?"
-Neighbour "Yes, I want to get one just like her."
-Seller "Why would you want two dead cats?"

This is a little like the classic machinist's joke about the apprentice who is presented with a worn out shaft, told to make one just like it, and spends hours reproducing the grooves, burrs, and scars on the old shaft.

Nice gets. I bet they'd be even nicer with photographs.  Those classic British sliding bevels are ever so pretty.

[JIMB49]

You Did Great!!!!
 My wife Always Calls Me LAST OF THE BIG TIME SPENDERS 
 When I Go Rust Hunting at The Flea Market

[Downwindtracker2]

Yes ,Bill, I should learn how to post photos,not just to satisfy the lust for tool porn, but rather to show some interesting tools and their details. While the sliding bevel gauge has some white paint on it ,disqualifying it for a photo shoot, it's details are interesting.  The finger hollows have black lacquer and even the top brass plates are pinned. The flat knurled nut is a different approach then the lever nut.  It's quite a step up from my Stanley beech and brass,with it's brass plated wing nut, I bought as an apprentice those many years ago. Besides,  I'm a sucker for rosewood and brass.

[Bill_Houghton]

One of the things I've founded interesting about (at least some of) the British bevels is that the end is not angled back at nearly as sharp an angle as the American models.  I have no idea what benefit the acute or obtuse angle offers, or if it was just a matter of practice.

[Downwindtracker2]

Bill, your post got me looking at my humble collection of bevels. I have one old one without an etch or stamp and it does have less of an angle on the blade, not much difference, though. It's also longer at 10 1/4 " compared to 8 3/4 " of the Stanleys and the Smallwood . The other thing on the older bevels is the cove is longer on the nut side and the blade is offset.