On 23 Apr 2003 at 21:29, Jason Starbird wrote:

> Hello to All Galoots! I've been lurking around the porch now for about
> two months

Welcome aboard!

> I think I may have the mother of all gloats, and that was enough to
> get me started collecting.

> I went out the door with a near mint #1 for $48.15.

> So, that's my best gloat i have. A hard one to top I'll admit.

Well, certainly respectable gloat indeed! I can't top it personally, but
I know one Galoot who can - although he's been absent from the Porch for
a long time - I think marriage and work pressures got the best of him...

Many Galoots will likely remember several years ago when Walter Barry
got a #1 smoother at an estate sale for the princely sum of $5.

It wasn't "mint" but it wasn't dogmeat either. A tough one to beat.

> Since then, I've amassed about 30 -40 hand planes, mostly all metal.
> 602- 608 bedrocks. 1, 3-8 Bailey's. Never have gotten #2 yet
> though....A nice 66 hand beader. In the box, 45. LN 112. A nice 40. A
> 100 1/2 from a fellow Galoot. Levels, Trammel points, catalogs, rules,
> etc....I try to get only tools that I can and will use, but occasionly
> get others if it's a good deal. I want to learn to use a scraper
> better, actually how to burnish better. I do all of my sharpening on a
> set of Japanese waterstones, with a Veritas honing guide. I have yet
> to find one or make a guide that fits the wide blade on my 608.

That right there sounds pretty gloat-worthy! Whole line up of
Bedrocks? Sheesh.

>  It's a pleasure to share the porch with you all!!

It's a pleasure to have you aboard! Pull up a rocker and set a spell...

- Bill Taggart