Tool Talk
Wrench Forum => Wrench Forum => Topic started by: kxxr on December 10, 2011, 07:25:49 PM
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The only one I really like is the GEM in the box. Of course, that's the most expensive one...
go figure...
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The Stanley Triplet is one I would like to have.
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Looking with an untrained eye, I think I like them all. Clearly the one in the box that looks totally unused jumps out at me. As we all know, any old tool that's in mint condition and still in the box, usually sells at a premium. When I go tool hunting, I'll have to start looking beyond just old hand planes!
Jim C.
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Beautiful stuff, but I'd be afraid to use any of them because of the condition. I'll take any and all of them with a little wear and rust.
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I like i like and to look is free bob w.
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Yup doesn't cost a thing to look! I am glad to see them all too.
I think some of the prices are, uh, optimistic.
Also know as......
Are you kidding me? I'd be a millionaire if I actually got this much for my junk!! And guess what? I rolled up in a 30 year old truck.
In another 90 years the price still won't be this high.
yours Scott
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Many of these items belong to Jim Bode. 21shark on ebay.
I really like Jim. He is a great dude and he really really loves tools.
He has stuff that is actually for sale and other things he doesn't really want to sell at all.
So he just puts a price no one would ever pay on them.
yours Scott
Here is another neat one.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Dead-Mint-BEMIS-CALL-Double-Ended-Wrench-6-inch-/330640730605?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4cfbb929ed (http://www.ebay.com/itm/Dead-Mint-BEMIS-CALL-Double-Ended-Wrench-6-inch-/330640730605?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4cfbb929ed)
plus this, my own monster drool generator
That little one is 4" boys and girls.
A 4" Marples boxwood spokeshave, only one I ever saw, and I have looked a little. heeheheh
yours Scott
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So, he just likes to donate to ebay?
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So, he just likes to donate to ebay?
Naaa, he gets in on the free listing specials they run from time to time, and plasters tons of stuff up.
Just go to his sellers page for an enjoyable tour and you'll see what I mean.
There are things I would buy this morning if I had the money. Great stuff, decent price.
Then there is a goodly percentage nobody is ever going to buy for any particle of his asking price.
He is always haggle-able though, and in fact, expects it.
I bet you could rend your garmints and rub gravel through your hair and insult his ancestry and get that rosewood centerwheel plow plane for, oh I dunno, 4 thousand? Of course it would take an all day haggle, maybe more!!
"May they pull things out of you even science can't identify!!" heeheheh
yours Scott
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I mean to try listing something on ebay but I just never get around to it. Free is especially appealing though and would be a great way to try it out. I did look at some of his other items (not all 28 pages!!) and there are some very nice things ... all out of my league for the most part. I love my $5 a sack specials.
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"May they pull things out of you even science can't identify!!"
Huh?
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That's funny...
That expression is unique on the entire internet, except for the other place it was uttered..... http://www.thegaragegazette.com/index.php?topic=5727.0
ROFL
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Well, just for the sake of discussion, in my experience, if you must be told it's funny, it's .... uh, borderline funny at best. Must be an 'inside' joke. I love funny. I'm bummed that I'm missing out on that one: )
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It's funny dammit!
OK,ok, so , ...perhaps it's just....peculier
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"May they pull things out of you even science can't identify!!"
Huh?
Well, just for the sake of discussion, in my experience, if you must be told it's funny, it's .... uh, borderline funny at best. Must be an 'inside' joke. I love funny. I'm bummed that I'm missing out on that one: )
Don't feel bad, I didn't understand it either.
Jim C.
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Haggling is one of the great joys of this life. It bring entertainment and creativity to an ordinary transaction. Its a battle of wits and woe be unto the inarticulate haggler! I can spot and start another true haggler boiling with merely 2 or three well chosen words.
Haggling is roughly the same as swearing. Any fool can swear, and in fact, many of them do, Or try to.
But its the fine and creative combinations of actual and created on the spot, just for the occasion words that really bring up the flavor and make it entertaining.
I was introduced to haggling in Juarez Mexico when I was just a child. I loved it. Exuberant and fierce and at the same time the most fun you can legally have on a street corner under the noonday sun over a cheap item neither the buyer nor the seller really has too much invested in.
You walk away, you walk back. He walks away, he walks back. Arms are flying, insults wickedly hurled.
Each pulling the fire from the depths of creation and dressing it up in a most elaborate way.
In the end you probably arrive back at the same price you were going to do the deal at anyway.
But you just got to enjoy and participate in, spontaneous street drama of the first degree.
Sometimes the drama being more memorable than the item ever was.
yours Scott
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If you're like most people who do a lot of work around the home and garage you have a collection of tools you have gathered for decades. Unfortunately as critical as they are, all too often it's easy to just leave our tools scattered in the toolbox which basically ensures that it will take a lot longer to find a given tool then it should. Aside from generally being a nuisance this actually extends the length of time required to do even the most basic job, as more time might be spent looking around than is actually used to accomplish whatever it is you're trying to do. I found a solution to keeping your wrenches in a group and have placed them on eBay. Check it out at: http://www.ebay.com/itm/120788419500?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649#ht_500wt_1287
I have been told that it makes your wrenches easier to grab especially if you work on big equipment or farm.