Tool Talk
Buying, Selling, and Trading => The Missing Link => Topic started by: scottg on July 27, 2014, 07:44:30 PM
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I want some of these. Except I can't pay 21 dollars.
If anyone has a pair they will sell cheaper, lets talk.
These are regular Wiss Inlaid bent trimmers, in the smallest size.
About 6" and change.
If they made an even smaller size, I want that even more.
Big ones are easy to get, but they never made very many little ones.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Wiss-Inlaid-Vintage-3-Scissors-27-Rare-/271456095796?hash=item3f340b4e34&item=271456095796&pt=Motors_Automotive_Tools&vxp=mtr (http://www.ebay.com/itm/Wiss-Inlaid-Vintage-3-Scissors-27-Rare-/271456095796?hash=item3f340b4e34&item=271456095796&pt=Motors_Automotive_Tools&vxp=mtr)
yours Scott
PS
this was me saying, yeah I am a wreck, but I refuse to go all the way down no matter what
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'splain the 'inlay' part , please
just the logo?
Skip
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Scissors are mostly iron. Its highly refined and super high grade and all,
but its still basically cast iron. Nearly all scissors and even many shears that you see are made of iron. Its what works.
Excepting hair scissors. Scissors for cutting hair are in a category all their own.
But I just mean grandmas scissors and yours, and your neighbors scissors.
All cast iron, if they are over 40 years old.
Inlaid means they sweated a thin slip of tool steel along the edge.
So its an actual steel edge.
I don't even care about the steel edge sales pitch.
The real story is that Wiss pulled out all the stops when they made these scissors.
They made them over-the-top-fine in all other respects.
These are great scissors!
The bit of steel? Is just gravy.
yours Scott
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(http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c180/lbgradwell/Wiss-Inlaid-1.jpg)
If they made an even smaller size, I want that even more.
It seems there was one size smaller...
(http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c180/lbgradwell/Wiss-Inlaid-2.jpg)
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Is that Ebay seller our own Oldtoolman that just passed away?
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Is that Ebay seller our own Oldtoolman that just passed away?
Yes, he has a website also oldtoolman.com
Larry
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So it is!
Remarkable coincidence...
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I quested. Found in the darkest recesses of the room attached to the south end of my house, the messy one with the big door and no heating or air conditioning.
PM sent
Chilly
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Pardon?
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I think he found a pair for Scotty and is sending him a PM.
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Pardon?
I think he found a pair for Scotty and is sending him a PM.
That's right. I was cleaning my garage. Deep cleaning where everything comes out.
I was looking for many things that have been mentioned here, wiss scissors, blacksmith hammers, a handle with a teardrop shsped grindstone on it, wrenches, etc., etc. Oh, and the museum wax I picked up for Ralph.
I found a lot of it, including many pairs of Wiss Scissors Inlaid, Pinking, and others. I even found one in a box, with original advertising, and a big pair of Wiss Inlaid tin snips.
Then I became buried in everything else, mostly Dr. visits. I felt behind at work, and everywhere else, but I had no choice. If I didn't do what they said, they said I could stroke out. "No exercise for at least a month" "No lifting anything bigger than a glass of water" "No going for walks" I asked if I could just putter around and they said I could "lightly"
After 3 weeks I found out that they were wrong, that the cause of my rising red blood cell count had to do with how my body handled one of their prescriptions rather than something wrong with my bone marrow.
So things started to get better, (I always think that, being an eternal optimist, even though its been tough since April) and I am starting to get caught up on my committments, or at least caught up on the things I have seen here that I think I can help with.
So Scotty's Wiss #27's were packaged this week and Mrs. Chilly has them in her big bag to take to the post office.
Hopefully better late than never.
See, I can't give short answers. When I do, they come out cryptic - my blood turns to syrup with too many red blood cells, and stuff doesn't get done.
So hopefully I can get lots of stuff out to you folks while making enough room in my garage to get to the other stuff.
Regards and apologies on my tardiness.....
Chilly