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273962 Ed Minch <edminch3@g...> 2021‑06‑18 Anvil
Just left the basement of a woman I met at a garage sale.  She commented on my
Avanti and we struck up a conversation - new reason to drive an interesting car.
She lives with her 93 old dad in the house she grew up in in rural MD.  Her dad
had a constrcution company and the basement was FULL of stuff.  Not much of
interest - things like a whole 45 gallon bucket full of channelocks or
screwdrivers, but I did find a stgraight pre WWII Victory saw with close to a
full depth plate, if not full depth, I few of the orange Jorgenson bar clamops I
use, a very nice early Stanly 98 marking gauge, 3 Arkansas stones brand new in
their boxes - soft, hard, and black.

She has 3 items I thought might garner some interest from all y'all

A cabinetmakers bench - 24” X 84” (approx) with a tool trough along the back of
the top.  It has a face vice and and end vice each with a great big wood screw.
It was covered in more crap than I wanted to move, but it looked about average
in wear, working vices, and very sturdy base.  He dad said he wants $500 for it.

A vice out of a local blacksmith shop her dad got in the 60’s.  It has a maker’s
mark up high on one side - stamped large letters in a straigh line  ??????  with
BROOKLYNNY in a smiling curve just below.  Faintly seems to have more letter in
a frowing curve above.  My guess is 200 lbs.  The plate on top has one slightly
rounded edge.  She did not have a price in mind.

A machinists tool chest - tall, metal, lots of drawers, a ton (literally) of
contents.  Starrett, B+S, Mitotoyo (SP?), lots of gauges and micrometers.  I
didn't price anything out of it

She is located on Maryand’s Eastern Shore, an hour from the Annapolis Bay Bridge
or 45 minutes from Wilmington DE

Let me know if you have any interest

Ed Minch
273963 gtgrouch@r... 2021‑06‑18 Re: Anvil
----------------------------------------------------
 Let me know if you have any interest

 Ed Minch

Interest!? Heck yeah! You have an Avanti!?!?

Not 'xactly my type of tools though. Thanks for sharing, GK
Albion NY

	-----------------------------------------From: "Ed Minch" 
To: "porch"
Cc: 
Sent: Friday June 18 2021 4:04:08PM
Subject: [oldtools] Anvil

 Just left the basement of a woman I met at a garage sale. She
commented on my Avanti and we struck up a conversation - new reason to
drive an interesting car. She lives with her 93 old dad in the house
she grew up in in rural MD. Her dad had a constrcution company and the
basement was FULL of stuff. Not much of interest - things like a whole
45 gallon bucket full of channelocks or screwdrivers, but I did find a
stgraight pre WWII Victory saw with close to a full depth plate, if
not full depth, I few of the orange Jorgenson bar clamops I use, a
very nice early Stanly 98 marking gauge, 3 Arkansas stones brand new
in their boxes - soft, hard, and black.

 She has 3 items I thought might garner some interest from all y'all

 A cabinetmakers bench - 24” X 84” (approx) with a tool trough
along the back of the top. It has a face vice and and end vice each
with a great big wood screw. It was covered in more crap than I wanted
to move, but it looked about average in wear, working vices, and very
sturdy base. He dad said he wants $500 for it.

 A vice out of a local blacksmith shop her dad got in the 60’s. It
has a maker’s mark up high on one side - stamped large letters in a
straigh line ?????? with BROOKLYNNY in a smiling curve just below.
Faintly seems to have more letter in a frowing curve above. My guess
is 200 lbs. The plate on top has one slightly rounded edge. She did
not have a price in mind.

 A machinists tool chest - tall, metal, lots of drawers, a ton
(literally) of contents. Starrett, B+S, Mitotoyo (SP?), lots of gauges
and micrometers. I didn't price anything out of it

 She is located on Maryand’s Eastern Shore, an hour from the
Annapolis Bay Bridge or 45 minutes from Wilmington DE

 Let me know if you have any interest

 Ed Minch

 



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273966 Bill Kasper <dragon01list@g...> 2021‑06‑18 Re: Anvil
ed, vice or anvil?  you wrote vice, but sounds like you're describing a hay
budden anvil (they're brooklyn's most famous anvil sons).

a 200 lb hay budden in good nick (good condition, paddy) would set you back
something on the order of $800-$1200 on the open market, if not a scoche
more, here in hahafornia.  out east, where anvils are thick on the ground
(except around todd's home region) they may go easily for the lower end.  i
paid $600 for my 196 lb. peter wright a few years back during the Great
Rise of the Anvil Prices.

best,
bill
felton, ca
273967 Ed Minch <edminch3@g...> 2021‑06‑18 Re: Anvil
Thanks Bill

I am in the thick of Todd territory here.  I am priveleged to see his collection
of about 40 of them (add in the 1000 saws, the 50 leg vices, and on and on, and
it is truly inspiring)

Ed
273968 Larry Holland 2021‑06‑19 Re: Anvil
I’ve got a Hay Budden.  Acquired it some 20 odd years ago, along with a hand
crank forge, hand crank blower & post drill.  Won’t say how much I payed for the
lot, but I didn’t have to take out my wallet.
Meep, meep…..

Dutch, in Menlo WA
273969 gary allan may 2021‑06‑19 Re: Anvil
Hiya Ed---
  I'd love to know how you passed up a 'whole 45 gallon bucket of channellocks
or screwdrivers'---I know I'd've died trying to get them home.
  Tooling an Avanti, eh?  Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.  
                   best to you and all your women, and your grandson---gam in
OlyWA USA
                      


How horrible it is to have so many people killed!---And what a blessing one
cares for none of them!
Jane Austen 

    On Friday, June 18, 2021, 01:31:00 PM PDT, gtgrouch@r... 
wrote:
 
 ----------------------------------------------------
 Let me know if you have any interest

 Ed Minch

Interest!? Heck yeah! You have an Avanti!?!?

Not 'xactly my type of tools though. Thanks for sharing, GK
Albion NY

    -----------------------------------------From: "Ed Minch" 
To: "porch"
Cc: 
Sent: Friday June 18 2021 4:04:08PM
Subject: [oldtools] Anvil

 Just left the basement of a woman I met at a garage sale. She
commented on my Avanti and we struck up a conversation - new reason to
drive an interesting car. She lives with her 93 old dad in the house
she grew up in in rural MD. Her dad had a constrcution company and the
basement was FULL of stuff. Not much of interest - things like a whole
45 gallon bucket full of channelocks or screwdrivers, but I did find a
stgraight pre WWII Victory saw with close to a full depth plate, if
not full depth, I few of the orange Jorgenson bar clamops I use, a
very nice early Stanly 98 marking gauge, 3 Arkansas stones brand new
in their boxes - soft, hard, and black.

 She has 3 items I thought might garner some interest from all y'all

 A cabinetmakers bench - 24” X 84” (approx) with a tool trough
along the back of the top. It has a face vice and and end vice each
with a great big wood screw. It was covered in more crap than I wanted
to move, but it looked about average in wear, working vices, and very
sturdy base. He dad said he wants $500 for it.

 A vice out of a local blacksmith shop her dad got in the 60’s. It
has a maker’s mark up high on one side - stamped large letters in a
straigh line ?????? with BROOKLYNNY in a smiling curve just below.
Faintly seems to have more letter in a frowing curve above. My guess
is 200 lbs. The plate on top has one slightly rounded edge. She did
not have a price in mind.

 A machinists tool chest - tall, metal, lots of drawers, a ton
(literally) of contents. Starrett, B+S, Mitotoyo (SP?), lots of gauges
and micrometers. I didn't price anything out of it

 She is located on Maryand’s Eastern Shore, an hour from the
Annapolis Bay Bridge or 45 minutes from Wilmington DE

 Let me know if you have any interest

 Ed Minch

 



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273970 CheekyGeek <cheekygeek@g...> 2021‑06‑19 Re: Anvil
Love the Avanti.That is a LITERAL drive-by gloat!  What year is it? There
was an old lady in Grand Island (Nebraska) that had a gold one she used as
her daily driver. Saw her shopping with it many times. I can hardly think
of parking in a parking lot with one (or being on the street in one with
today's distracted drivers)!

Darren Addy
Kearney, NE




On Fri, Jun 18, 2021 at 3:04 PM Ed Minch  wrote:

> Just left the basement of a woman I met at a garage sale.  She commented
> on my Avanti and we struck up a conversation - new reason to drive an
> interesting car.  She lives with her 93 old dad in the house she grew up in
> in rural MD.  Her dad had a constrcution company and the basement was FULL
> of stuff.  Not much of interest - things like a whole 45 gallon bucket full
> of channelocks or screwdrivers, but I did find a stgraight pre WWII Victory
> saw with close to a full depth plate, if not full depth, I few of the
> orange Jorgenson bar clamops I use, a very nice early Stanly 98 marking
> gauge, 3 Arkansas stones brand new in their boxes - soft, hard, and black.
>
> She has 3 items I thought might garner some interest from all y'all
>
> A cabinetmakers bench - 24” X 84” (approx) with a tool trough along the
> back of the top.  It has a face vice and and end vice each with a great big
> wood screw.  It was covered in more crap than I wanted to move, but it
> looked about average in wear, working vices, and very sturdy base.  He dad
> said he wants $500 for it.
>
> A vice out of a local blacksmith shop her dad got in the 60’s.  It has a
> maker’s mark up high on one side - stamped large letters in a straigh line
> ??????  with BROOKLYNNY in a smiling curve just below.  Faintly seems to
> have more letter in a frowing curve above.  My guess is 200 lbs.  The plate
> on top has one slightly rounded edge.  She did not have a price in mind.
>
> A machinists tool chest - tall, metal, lots of drawers, a ton (literally)
> of contents.  Starrett, B+S, Mitotoyo (SP?), lots of gauges and
> micrometers.  I didn't price anything out of it
>
> She is located on Maryand’s Eastern Shore, an hour from the Annapolis Bay
> Bridge or 45 minutes from Wilmington DE
>
> Let me know if you have any interest
>
> Ed Minch
>
>
> 
>
>
>

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273971 gtgrouch@r... 2021‑06‑19 Re: Anvil
Back in the 1970s, speed radar involved more than small handheld
devices. A friend was a state trooper at the time, and he was assigned
to a team that set up a large, elaborate radar trap, run by a grizzled
old sargent - a real veteran. 

Well, after most of a quiet afternoon, they spotted a car coming in.
At 120mph or 200kph for our metric friends, but far, far above any
posted speed limit in the entire state. Well they deployed the chase
cars and stopped the vehicle. It was a Studebaker Avanti. 

When the sargent heard this, he was struggling with disbelief.
Studebaker was not known for high performance cars, after all. So, he
walked over to the Avanti, told the driver to turn around, and
instructed him to come back through the radar zone, and do it as fast
as he could. 

The Avanti came back through. This time it was clocked at 130mph. 

They wrote him a ticket for 130 in a 55 zone. 

He beat it in court because he simply did what he was instructed to do
by a duly-sworn law officer.

(Obligatory old tool content: you know some Studebakers had wooden
dash boards!)

	-----------------------------------------From: "CheekyGeek" 
To: "Ed Minch"
Cc: "porch"
Sent: Saturday June 19 2021 3:14:22PM
Subject: Re: [oldtools] Anvil

 Love the Avanti.That is a LITERAL drive-by gloat! What year is it?
There
 was an old lady in Grand Island (Nebraska) that had a gold one she
used as
 her daily driver. Saw her shopping with it many times. I can hardly
think
 of parking in a parking lot with one (or being on the street in one
with
 today's distracted drivers)!

 Darren Addy
 Kearney, NE

 On Fri, Jun 18, 2021 at 3:04 PM Ed Minch  wrote:

 > Just left the basement of a woman I met at a garage sale. She
commented
 > on my Avanti and we struck up a conversation - new reason to drive
an
 > interesting car. She lives with her 93 old dad in the house she
grew up in
 > in rural MD. Her dad had a constrcution company and the basement
was FULL
 > of stuff. Not much of interest - things like a whole 45 gallon
bucket full
 > of channelocks or screwdrivers, but I did find a stgraight pre WWII
Victory
 > saw with close to a full depth plate, if not full depth, I few of
the
 > orange Jorgenson bar clamops I use, a very nice early Stanly 98
marking
 > gauge, 3 Arkansas stones brand new in their boxes - soft, hard, and
black.
 >
 > She has 3 items I thought might garner some interest from all y'all
 >
 > A cabinetmakers bench - 24” X 84” (approx) with a tool trough
along the
 > back of the top. It has a face vice and and end vice each with a
great big
 > wood screw. It was covered in more crap than I wanted to move, but
it
 > looked about average in wear, working vices, and very sturdy base.
He dad
 > said he wants $500 for it.
 >
 > A vice out of a local blacksmith shop her dad got in the 60’s. It
has a
 > maker’s mark up high on one side - stamped large letters in a
straigh line
 > ?????? with BROOKLYNNY in a smiling curve just below. Faintly seems
to
 > have more letter in a frowing curve above. My guess is 200 lbs. The
plate
 > on top has one slightly rounded edge. She did not have a price in
mind.
 >
 > A machinists tool chest - tall, metal, lots of drawers, a ton
(literally)
 > of contents. Starrett, B+S, Mitotoyo (SP?), lots of gauges and
 > micrometers. I didn't price anything out of it
 >
 > She is located on Maryand’s Eastern Shore, an hour from the
Annapolis Bay
 > Bridge or 45 minutes from Wilmington DE
 >
 > Let me know if you have any interest
 >
 > Ed Minch
 >
 >
 >
 >
 >
 >

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273972 Ed Minch <edminch3@g...> 2021‑06‑19 Re: Anvil
It’s an ’81 - Made with left over parts - ’59 Lark Frame, kingpin front end,
mid-50’s Jaguar disc brakes, etc,  but I can't mention that it has a carburator.

Ed
273973 Ed Minch <edminch3@g...> 2021‑06‑19 Re: Anvil
Not only wooden dashboards, Studebaker started making Conestoga wagons in the
1870’s - they were galoots.  The twin turbo version of the ’63 Avanti was the
fastest production car in the world at 171 MPH, and with suspension changes and
a HP boost it did 196.  I wouldn't dare go over 90 in mine.  Sorry Chris

Ed Minch
273976 Tim Pendleton <tpendleton@g...> 2021‑06‑20 Re: Anvil
Ed,
Try using the British spelling of that component; it might make it past the
censors...

Tim
273984 Larry Ruebush <lrt@m...> 2021‑06‑21 Re: Anvil
Studebaker Made large delvery wagons, in fact Studebaker build the basic wagon
that the Budweiser Hitch uses. They have several wagon, but at least two are
based on Studebaker gears
273985 Michael Blair <branson2@s...> 2021‑06‑21 Re: Anvil
Studebaker was a waaay old company.  There's a painting of the
Studebaker shop done in 1855, with Studebaker Sr standing in
shirtsleeves but a top hat.  There's also a drawing (done in 1893) of
the shop in 1850
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Original_Studebaker_Wagon_Shop_1850.png)
.
 More information here: https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=94507 

The rest of the story starts in the Gold Rush:  Wheel barrow races are
still called Studebaker races. 

https://www.edcgov.us/landing/Living/Stories/pages/wheelbarrow_johnny.aspx


Mike in Woodland

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