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Nice score. I did the same thing, several times. Start by going through the contents and picking out what you want for yourself. Then, separate what you know to be good stuff from the rest. What you don't recognize, look up. Ebay is a good resource for identifying stuff and getting a reasonable price range to sell it. What I did was put some of it on here in SNS. Then, I put it on ebay. What didn't sell on either of those, went in a yard sale. Finally, I gave away the cutters and milling bits. When I was done, I made at least double what I paid and ended up with a bunch of cool toys..... um, I mean tools. As for pricing, I did a search on ebay of sold items and priced my stuff just under that. Everything sold quick. Sometimes, as I was listing an item, a previous listing sold. In the end, I made a nice profit.
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See ya around,
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You should not come in physical contact with the contents, they look radioactive to me. Just dump the contents in a large flat rate box and ship to me for proper disposal!
Oh, by the way, you suck.... Nice buy!
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Wow Richard!! Fantastic finds!
I know you've done this dozens of times and know what to do with it all, but if the slipstones somehow are just too much trouble for you to bother with, feel free to PM me with a price for the lot.
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SMOG I wonder if there's a machinist's site like this with a SnS?
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Nice score! Let us know how you do
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How much did you pay at the auction?
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Wow! You can probably guess how often the heavy contents were actually used by the wear on the poplar grooves on the side-hung drawers. I've restored a few Gerstners, and on most of them the lowest/heaviest drawer needed repairs. I'm guessing this one of yours wasn't a rough-and-tumble piece.
Chris
