Yesterday I went into the maker-space I use, and a fellow member almost
immediately buttonholed me in the coffee roomfor advice on cutting mortice
and tenons on the TS. We chjatted, and then proceeded into the woodbutchery
area. He knows I',m a galloot and told me about his NIB stanely 45 hr had
just acquired, but as we walked into the woodbutchery area, thee was a
Brunton compass tripod and mount sitting there! Long had I lusted after one
of those. But given up looking for one.
So awestruck I asked him if he wanted to sell it. ..And he started talking
about how he was getting into handplanes, and I happened to have a couple of
#3's which I had just rehabbed in the back of the truck, so we agreed on a
trade. Then he says, there's more to it.and pulls out the leather case.
I think he was awestruck a tad when I immediately identified it
Just like this one
https://geog.sfsu.edu/field-equipment/brunton-pocket-level-tripod
No money changed hands
The bad news is that he said, he had just sandblasted it taking off the
decal. Oh well, you cannot be everywhere at once.
Anyway, the bottom line in this serendipity is that we had an even trade and
we both ended up happy as pigs in mud and going down our individual slippery
slopes
Gotta love serendipity
Eric
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