Last Saturday I went by a garage sale that didn't look too promising. There were a lot of cool things there, don't get me wrong. It was definitely a "guy's" garage sale ... lots of mechanical junk, rust, grease, wood and metal, and not a doily in sight. It was just two guys clearing out their shed. But most of it was metal-working stuff; these guys were mechanics, not woodworkers.
But after I told one of the dudes what I was looking for, he dug around and found three pretty nice little items pictured above: (1) an apparently unused Norton HM--8 black Hard Arkansas Oil Stone, (2) a good Stanley 36 1/2 L boxwood 12-inch rule, and (3) an old inexpensive Craftsman low-angle block plane. The plane was rusty, but cleaned up and sharpened up real nice.
Also, in the picture above you can see a handle I made with a spokeshave from a chunk of oak for an old gouge I had lying around. Not too shabby if I say so myself.
And last, a little 4-inch divider that I got in the mail today. It's marked S&W Co. , whatever that means (Smith & Wesson?).
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