way back when I was first starting out buying tools (in other words 
when I didn't know squat about nuttin') I attended an auction of a 
smallish cabinetmakers shop. The kind that lived in a garage out 
behind the house?

I was taken with looking at all the old Delta machinery and the boxes 
of hardware and handtools. One box contained some really rusty 
looking and strange looking planes. The crate went for about a 
hundred bucks... big money for me in those days.

In the box... and if memory serves the rust was just years of dirt 
accumulation...

One Knowles pattern fore plane
One Knowles pattern smooth plane

both with totes, blades, wedges and knobs intact.

If I could turn back time...

Gary
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Gary Roberts 
Dedham, MA...Antique tools, Old Books, Hong Kong cinema, what else is there?