Richard:  If you come to the US, please let me know, and we'll meet up and check
out Tony's environs. If he'll have us, I mean...I'll have to travel several
thousand miles, same as you. It'll be worth it, though...

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

    On Sunday, May 1, 2022, 04:27:00 AM PDT, Richard Wilson 
wrote:
 
 Just to back this up, 

I too appreciate the reports - and photo’s.  Never likely to get there in
person, but I can almost smell the rust and oil from the reporting.


I may have said so in the last century, but you know how fast time flies when
Galoot time time is involved…



Richard Wilson
Yorkshireman Galoot
now in Northumbria, but expecting a passing galoot to visit, so I ought to tidy
the workshop (also known as making enough space to put your feet on the floor)



 


> On 30 Apr 2022, at 23:56, gary allan may via groups.io
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> Hi Tony---
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>  I haven't told you---not in this century---how much I appreciate your sale-
touring posts, so I'm telling you now: I always get a special warm feeling when
I see an OldTools heading that tells me you're going tool hunting. Never fails
to make my day.
> 
>                      thanks a bunch, yr pl gam in OlyWA/USA
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>    On Friday, April 29, 2022, 10:57:15 AM PDT, Tony Seo via groups.io
 wrote:
> 
> Today was the start of the Spring 2022 Kutztown Antiques Extravaganza
> and for me was the first big show of the year.  The weather was clear,
> but a little cool to start with, but it warmed up a touch during the
> walk around.
> 
> We got there later than I had hoped and the line to get it was pretty long.
> 
> http://oldetoolshop.com/jointer/bffiles/2022/kutztownspring04292022f1.JPG
> 
> And kept on going.
> 
> http://oldetoolshop.com/jointer/bffiles/2022/kutztownspring04292022f2.JPG
> 
> There are 2 covered pavilions here.  It's mostly jewelry and higher end
> antiques, but once in a while some good stuff shows up there.
> 
> http://oldetoolshop.com/jointer/bffiles/2022/kutztownspring04292022f3.JPG
> 
> It was a beautiful day.
> 
> http://oldetoolshop.com/jointer/bffiles/2022/kutztownspring04292022f4.JPG
> 
> Pickings weren't great, but overall not too bad, I've had worse days
> there.  I got a pretty nice Estwing hatchet with the original sheath, a
> 3" try square, an original CW mainspring vise, a Stanley boxwood
> mortising gage, a neat turned steel plumb bob, an early Stanley 9 1/2
> block plane, the cap is toast, but the body looks to be good, a cast
> iron bed key or wrench, a small archimedian drill, a 1/8" Sandusky side
> bead plane, and a 6" combination square, with a Brown & Sharpe rule and
> a Starrett head.
> 
> http://oldetoolshop.com/jointer/bffiles/2022/kutztownspring04292022t1.JPG
> 
> On the hammer side of things, I got a blacksmith square hole drift
> punch, a small saw setting hammer, a small cross peen hammer head, a
> Stortz Philadelphia slate roofer's hammer, and 3 cobblers hammers.
> 
> http://oldetoolshop.com/jointer/bffiles/2022/kutztownspring04292022t2.JPG
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> And now it's time for the real work to begin.
> 
> Tony (a picking and a plundering...
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Yorkshireman Galoot
in the most northerly county, farther north even than Yorkshire
IT #300