Continuing on Scott’s tool price remark.  It seem a lot of bored people found
tool collecting during COVID times.  The items targeted seem to be from a light
read of the internet “literature”.  Most sought after and most highly priced
were bedrocks, Stanley No. 1 and No. 2s.  And for no reason that I can
understand — router planes.  They don't exactly need to be precision instruments
and the performance of good one vs. a bad one isn’t a huge gap.  I think I may
have gloated here that I sold one on ebay for something like $380 that I paid
about $30 on the same venue.  Well the joke was on me in that that router was
soon selling for north of $800.  Bizarre.  There was a peak in the No. 1 frenzy
where  one of middling age, chipped out mouth, chip in the rear of the sole and
broken tote sold for around $2400.  I’ve had a No. 1 for a while and I’m sure I
paid more than it was worth a couple decades ago.  I was tracking this for a
while and thinking the price my fairly nice example would fetch was coming on
par with a nicely kitted out Oneway lathe. Way more fun than a shelf trinket.
Alas I did not act and that bit of insanity has passed.  In a very OCD way I
track tools on ebay way more that I should.  I agree prices are coming down the
other side of the curve.  Tools are posted with with prices that would have been
competitive a few month ago and are now getting no attention.

Kevin in Chantilly — baking briefly in the backyard heat with the hound, seeking
respite from the frozen hell of the house.