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80969 Roger Books books+oldtools@j... 2000‑07‑14 Re: Cleaning and refinishing wooden planes
On 14-Jul-00 at 09:05, Smith, Ray  (GOT) (RayT.Smith@m...
wrote:
>
>    Looks like good advice from Eric. Adding any type of oil finish
will
> permanently change the look of a plane, and can adversely affect
resale
> value if you ever plan to get rid of any of your planes. Whenever I go
to a
> MWTCA meet, I avoid oiled and refinished woodies like the plague,
unless
> there is one I just have to own, and can't find another in the entire
tool
> show. Even then, I hate to buy one with an altered finish.

Cool, that means I, who am looking for strictly user tools and has this
strange motto of "function before form" should look at the oiled stuff
as the steenking c*ll*ct*rs won't be wanting to use them in an attempt
to emulate Cracker Barrel.

To each his own. :)

Roger



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