More eBay purchases and a sale

I usually keep an eye on eBay in case there are any bargains that everyone else has missed.

The other day I saw a lot with various planes, braces and mallets plus a cast iron glue pot for a starting bid of £9.99 which had no bids and was nearing the end.

In the end nobody else bid, so I won the auction for £18.48 including P&P, which I thought was quite a good price, given the amount the glue pots alone go for (typically in the £5-10 range).

It arrived today and I must say I’m very happy with my purchases.

Unfortunately as can be seen above, the larger of the two wooden planes has had the handle snapped in transit, but otherwise everything is in the same (or mostly better) condition I was expecting, which is nice!

Derusting planes – Part 4

I’ve finished derusting my metal bodied planes for now, so while the blades and chip breakers from my wooden bodied planes were soaking in the derusting fluid I reassembled the metal ones.

Car booty – 02/06/2013

Today I went to Sayers Common car boot sale with my youngest daughter while my wife took our eldest daughter to a party.

We’ve not been since April, when we were very impressed, so I had quite high hopes and I wasn’t disappointed.

I found several things in the first aisle and it got better from there!

Wood stock

This post is mainly for my own benefit …

Most of my timber is catalogued below, but a lot isn’t, including the MDF, ply, tanalised timber and most of my pine and reclaimed timber.

Where I know them the price and which batch they were purchased in are also logged.

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More offcuts

Yesterday after visiting my relative I went to Wenban’s to check out their offcuts.

As usual they had a whole load of Pine, Iroko, Idigbo, Utile etc plus a few bits of Oak, Ash, Beech, Tulip etc.

Wood from the Rectory

Today I visited a relative in a nearby town for lunch.

Before I left she mentioned she had some wood she didn’t need and pulled out a nice close grained little offcut of pine which I gladly accepted.

She then said there may be more in the shed …

Much rummaging and some cobwebs later we had unearthed quite a lot of wood.

Projects – Boot jack – Part 2

It’s been a while since my eldest daughter and I have done anything in the workshop together, but as this week is half term I promised we’d make a bit more progress on the boot jack project.

We re-thought our decision to use the pine we prepared last time (partially because I’ve lost it in the workshop!) and decided to recycle the side of an Ikea RAST bedside table which has been lying around for a while.

The cats had sharpened their claws on the uprights, particularly this one, but we figured there was enough wood left to make at least one boot jack.

eBay purchase roundup

I don’t think I ever posted about the other plane I got before I picked up the No. 71 router plane off eBay

• Stanley Bailey No. 3 – £14.50 + 5.90 P&P

I got it some time ago but have only just got round to cleaning and derusting it.

This purchase pretty much completed my plane “collection” … apart from a No. 6 … and a No. 7 … and maybe some more block planes, and maybe if I saw some nice Marples wood planes … well ok the collection has some way to go! 🙂

Yesterday on the way home from our trip to the seaside I picked up another purchase:

• Marples padsaw – £2.99 (no P&P as collected)

Derusting planes – Part 3

It’s been a while since I last posted on this subject and I’ve now built a cylindrical derusting tank from soil pipe that is good for dipping longer planes.

I managed to separate the blade and chip breaker a while ago without injuring myself again, but I think they may be beyond repair as they’re badly pitted even after several dips and a lot of work with the wet and dry.

Further adventures in derusting

Following on from my previous post.

You may have noticed some other bits amongst the plane and axe parts in the photo below:

These are part of my Stanley 905 breast drill, which I’ve been meaning to clean up for a while.

I wasn’t entirely comfortable with dipping the parts I couldn’t disassemble in the derusting fluid, so I decided to try out the derusting gel from the same manufacturer.