Sometimes a couple of crazy deep pocket buyers will make a crazy price 
on most anything.

    Some things stay at a ridiculous price point for years. People drive 
up the price because they thought it was rare, and even after dozens to 
hundreds are found,
  the silly price stays because people got used to thinking they were 
valuable.


But more fun are "holes" in the market.
     I am about to fall --into-- the earth,
  from the iron that has landed in my possession these past few years.
   Its chisels. Its a hole you can drive a D8 Cat into!

Since the current generation is deadlock dumbface frozen onto new retail 
tools.
(OMG not every minute they are 2000 born every second.....)

And since a bunch of modern manufacturers have figured out that a pound 
or two of steel makes a buttload of little 4" blade wood chisels, that 
they can sell for tippy top dollar.....

Nobody is looking for old chisels.
    You can have the best chisels ever made for almost nothing if you hunt

I am traditionally the poorest / cheapest guy on the list. Always true, 
still is.
Mostly the last year alone, I was able to get these for about 1/10the 
price of facetious catalog retail.
   (That dinky little thing in front is a direct copy of a Stanley 750, 
same size nearly all the new chisels mimic.)

http://users.snowcrest.net/kitty/sgrandstaff/images/oldtools/cranknecks.JPG

Built for hard work
http://users.snowcrest.net/kitty/sgrandstaff/images/oldtools/paringwand2.JPG

Last years scores. Also dirt cheap
http://users.snowcrest.net/kitty/sgrandstaff/images/oldtools/chisels2018f.jpg

I am letting the cat out of the bag.  I almost have enough now
   yours Scott

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