> On Jan 13, 2019, at 12:31 PM, Matt Cooper  wrote:
> 
> I am so excited. There has been so much talk on this list about the stanley
45. It has made get the itch to pick one up myself. However being the cheap
Bas***, uh galoot that I am. I just went pay over a certain price. The few I
have found on the flea, sell for beyond my means. (Or should I say, what my loml
says is my means.)
> I have recently reserved my search to local estate sales. However they seem in
short supply in these neck of the woods. Until recently that is. At a recent
estate sale I did not find one, but two, complete 45's. One a bit worse for
wear, with quite a cut of rust, with lots to be desired of the finish. However
the other seemed hardly used. I could not believe my luck as it was the second
day of the sale, and nobody picked these beauties, up.
> Well I did for the princely some of 1.00 a piece. Can you believe it? It shows
that patience pays off.

Wait, you saw TWO of them? There goes my theory that there is only one #45 in
the world, and it just keeps getting passed around among woodworkers, unused.
Probably one of the two you saw used to be mine.

Doug