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267872 gary may 2019‑02‑15 Re: FOOYBIPO (was Re: OldTools] Test)
Hi Chuck--

    Good old Bretton Wade. Generous guy. I'll bet he sold you the whole setup
for the price of a Hock iron.
    
    I have a swell Yankee Eggbeater he gifted me years ago, and it's the drill I
use the most. He invited me over to look at a Bee-youteefull Spiers smoother
he'd just bought on Ebay.  It was beautiful all right. When he told me how cheap
he got it, I started crying. So he said:
   "Here Gary, have this hand-drill, it'll make you feel better." His voice was
calming.  He had two infant sons, you know.

   That infill plane of his worked fine right out of the shipping box and had
probably been in daily use when it went in to retirement. We had a lot of fun
fiddling with it, eventually making  shavings so thin they were invisible. No
kidding. The shavings were there; you could hear them being cut, you could pile
them into an invisible pile and light them off in a puff of smoke like a pinch
of gunpowder, but you couldn't SEE them, not at all.  More gas than solid, I
guess.
   
   I did learn that with persevering patience one can find good deals on 'user'
infills. And that's the kind I like. I also like a 4 1/2 with a Hock iron,
which'll do most of what you want from an infill, eh Chuck?

    I'm with Tom Conroy on the Bridge City stuff. Not for me, not even for free.
I do like *Old Tools* that are over-designed, ugly and impractical---I'm not a
monster---but I don't need New and Expensive tools that are.

                 and all the best to all galoots, everywhere--gam snowed in
still in OlyWA/US

    On Friday, February 15, 2019, 9:18:04 AM PST, Chuck Taylor via OldTools
 wrote:
 
 Hi Tom,

No offense intended; I was just trying to stir up some discussion

 Thomas Conroy  wrote: 

. But I'm not jackass enough to fall for Bridge City's line of goods.
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