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262032 "Joseph Sullivan" <joe@j...> 2017‑03‑21 Re: I bought a Frankenplane. Yes I did
Scott:

Most of what the St. Vincent de Paul Society does involves working directly
with people, helping them pay their bills, counseling them, guiding them to
various sources of help, even driving them around town.  There may be a
national coordinator, but locally It is 100% volunteer -- not even a paid
admin.  The store you saw is kind of unusual for them, but would just be a
way to raise money for the primary missions.  They must have had people
break in and finally got sick of it.

The other thing is that if charities that do give money and goods have
physical locations, they tend to get physically overwhelmed by what really
amounts to a small group of the poor who can make it hard to bring in the
many others they are trying to serve.  V.dP. is not a homeless shelter,
although they have sympathy.

J

Joseph Sullivan

 
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From: OldTools [mailto:oldtools-bounces@s...] On Behalf Of scott
grandstaff
Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2017 2:11 AM
To: porch 
Subject: [OldTools] I bought a Frankenplane. Yes I did

    Well today I got the mixed honor of buying new tires for my car.
  I had hit a piece of concrete I couldn't see, and not only bent a rim but
ruined a tire.
Got a pretty nice junkyard wheel. (An online guy in Sac City.)

  And today, I limped it over the mountain....slowly......... to Medford 
(sometimes dreadford) Oregon.   Pretty good today, not dreadful at all. 
But then I kept far away from warehouse stores that cause me undue stress.
   The tires are going to mean a lot of Ramen in my
future....................
But on the other hand, driving home was a revelation!
   I kept thinking something must be wrong, it was so quiet and smooth and
grabby in the corners. heh :)

  Anyway I had a little time to kill.   I took a walk.
  Along the road I was walking, what do you recon? St Vincent De Paul!
Its a religious charity thing, only I had never seen any religious charity
like this.

    I first walked up from the back, before I even knew what the business
was, and there was razor wire. Actual razor wire!  I had to walk up and look
at it close, and touch it.  Razor wire in Medford Or?
It was underneath a layer of barbed wire?? at the top of the fence.
    Barbed wire you do see on some things, but I never saw razor wire in
person before. Ever
   I can't imagine what is so precious people would be desperate to get to,
a back porch / loading dock?  I peeked through the fence and saw some
neglected vacuum cleaners and stuff?
      Anyway, I rounded the building to the front door and saw whose
business it was.

   No standing, no sitting, no talking, no loitering, no pets, no food or
drink, (no breathing hard or blinking your eyes much?) ............. I swear
there must have been 9 different "no"s posted on the front of the building.
Backpacks or other bags will be checked at the door, and an attendant will
watch you!
     wow
  a charity built on donations, supposed to comfort the poor?  who are they
keeping out?

   On the other hand there were hand painted easter bunnies galore running
around and lots of really cute stuff painted on the windows.  
There was some hand lettering on the glass that was pretty nice too.
   It was all so odd.

   Anyway, in I go.
   I made a quick tour.  I can scan these kinds of places fast. I am an old
hand.
I found a neglected #4 Stanley (bench hand, Jeff) plane.   It was marked 
$25.
I also snagged a Henckels fully forged bread knife, a couple of mint
condition extra thick tee shirts, and a very long, very soft leather belt to
be made into a guitar strap later.  Didn't take long.
   I must have quick sifted 300 pieces of cutlery. Many bins.  Just
scattered in the bin with my fingers and rifled incredibly fast, totally 
not looking much.      Until............Oh............ that's forged   
heheheh
   Jumped out from the mob like neon.

   Honestly, after the welcome on the outside of the building, when I got to
the counter I haggled the plane down to $20.  I just did.  I really didn't
even think about it much.
  But I haggled strong (BROKEN HANDLE!! ) and made the clerk go "clear" 
from "Upstairs"       hahahahahahahaha

http://users.snowcrest.net/kitty/sgrandstaff/images/oldtools/type11.jpg

  Yup, those are three patent dates, low knob. A type 11. Seems to be an
extra heavy type 11 too. I have hoisted a lot of Stanley planes, and a
little heavier is a little heavier.
Its got the correct R&L iron. (About 1/2 of it is left, and its clean as a
whistle, along with the sparkly cap iron.)
    Except for a #9 stamped into the side of the plane (and the tote too),
the body is fully there and no pitting at all. The knob is fairly rockin
(after some polish) and I'll fix the tote. Its premium rosewood. 
All the screws are loose as a goose.  And under the mud, its roughly, just
about 100% paint.
     A rich dark overall patina to the unfinished iron parts that I wouldn't
think of disturbing.  (for my own use).  Others might want more polish, and
once I might have polished it.
But me now, well,
   I can't fake really rich patina.  I can polish anything. But I can't make
really sweet even patina on old cast iron.  And so if I get something pretty
I'll just keep it.

  It had the totally wrong lever cap in the plane.

http://users.snowcrest.net/kitty/sgrandstaff/images/oldtools/bedrocklevercap
.jpg

  hee hehehehe
This is the cap from an early roundside Bedrock #603.
  The ever fragile bottom corners of it are almost sharp, and once again,
nearly 100% paint.
     life is weird
       yours Scott

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    Scott Grandstaff
    Box 409 Happy Camp, Ca  96039
    scottg@s...
    http://www.snowcrest.net/kitty/sgrandstaff/
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