It followed me home (Part 2)

rbeggs said:
My haul for the weekend.
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Why didn't you put them on the kitchen table for the pic?:D
 
🙊🙈🙉 man that's a lot of steel that won't end up in the scrapyard.

What's the deal with that little ball pein ?
 
jblyttle said:
My brother!

Seriously, I have made huge hauls over and over to the point where I have lost track of the best one, but I don't think that I have had a single haul that was much better than that, congrats!

Any Maine axes in there?
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Haha thanks jb, I've seen alot of yours and been envious. This was a two day estate auction and I hit the jackpot and I couldn't let them go. No Maine axes, mostly kelly perfect, plumb and keen kutter.
 
jblyttle said:
Today's finds, smaller quantity but all good stuff. $85 for everything, and yes ANOTHER 4" Parker vise. They seem to grow on trees around here.

There is a nice Craftsman boy's axe, an "M" boy's axe, an Emerson&Stevens Main wedge (love it) and a Mann Edge Lewistown PA Connie that is great except for mushrooming.

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Sweet Maine wedge.
 
quinton is correct, I thought we just recently established that photos of great finds like this were all to be taken with the tools on your dinning room table. What were you thinking rbeggs ?
 
Hickory n steel said:
That's a cool stamp on that little ball peen.
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That caught my eye too. Atha Tool Co. Found out a little more.
Square_peg said:
It's a name I associate with railroad tools - another passion of mine. Bought out by Stanley in 1913 but the name remained in used.

http://www.davistownmuseum.org/bioAtha.html


From a 1918 tool catalog:

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http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/s...THA-sledge-hammer-in-dads-barn?highlight=atha

1939 catalog:
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Claw hammer date unknown:
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The brand apparently was also used on ferrier tools, forging tools and:
JBLdom said:
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http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/s...ooking-for-axe-knowledge/page2?highlight=atha

Haven't figured out yet what's between the green lines on the OP ball pein:
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Bob
 
I think it might be "stanley" under the horseshoe on the ball pein.
As for the kitchen table...she helped me get about half of this stuff this weekend as their were two rings goin both days at the auction, so I might be pushing my luck if I tried the kitchen table trick haha!
 
A gunsmith friend asked if I would help him remodel his dining room as his wife had left him a couple of years earlier. So we pulled the window, gutted from the sill to the floor, rewired, and reinforced the floor. We moved the dining room table into his shop (garage), but we left all the chairs. Then we gathered all the guys and moved his metal lathe and milling machine through the opening into the dining room and reinstalled the window and closed the opening. His remodel allowed him to run his equipment, tend to a big pot of chili, get a beer from the fridge, and visit all of the guys who had the dining chairs to sit in. This was also a cost savings for him as the woodstove was in the next room and he did not have to heat the shop as much on those long cold Montana winters.
The male gender can really come up with some practical solutions. By the way, there has not been a woman set foot in Bill's house for about 20 years now.
 
Old Axeman said:
A gunsmith friend asked if I would help him remodel his dining room as his wife had left him a couple of years earlier. So we pulled the window, gutted from the sill to the floor, rewired, and reinforced the floor. We moved the dining room table into his shop (garage), but we left all the chairs. Then we gathered all the guys and moved his metal lathe and milling machine through the opening into the dining room and reinstalled the window and closed the opening. His remodel allowed him to run his equipment, tend to a big pot of chili, get a beer from the fridge, and visit all of the guys who had the dining chairs to sit in. This was also a cost savings for him as the woodstove was in the next room and he did not have to heat the shop as much on those long cold Montana winters.
The male gender can really come up with some practical solutions. By the way, there has not been a woman set foot in Bill's house for about 20 years now.
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As a builder, I can safely say men would still be living in caves if it were not for women.:p
 
Old Axeman said:
A gunsmith friend asked if I would help him remodel his dining room as his wife had left him a couple of years earlier. So we pulled the window, gutted from the sill to the floor, rewired, and reinforced the floor. We moved the dining room table into his shop (garage), but we left all the chairs. Then we gathered all the guys and moved his metal lathe and milling machine through the opening into the dining room and reinstalled the window and closed the opening. His remodel allowed him to run his equipment, tend to a big pot of chili, get a beer from the fridge, and visit all of the guys who had the dining chairs to sit in. This was also a cost savings for him as the woodstove was in the next room and he did not have to heat the shop as much on those long cold Montana winters.
The male gender can really come up with some practical solutions. By the way, there has not been a woman set foot in Bill's house for about 20 years now.
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I can honestly say that i have never, absolutely, ever been wrong since 1994 when my wife asked me to move out the morning after I took her out for our 23rd anniversary dinner! Just goes to show how things change, I'm now living in a cave (25' 5th wheel and 2 stick built rooms a barrel stove and my Bloodhound).
 
Old Axeman said:
. . .The male gender can really come up with some practical solutions. . .
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I don't know if I came up with a practical solution. It certainly would not be everybody's' cup of tea, but it works for me.

Awhile back I had my house added onto. The plan also included a pretty major remodeling of the existing house. Well, you guessed it, after the addition, but before the rest of the remodeling - divorce hit. I was determined to keep the house and property, and somehow did, but further work on the house came to an abrupt halt. Flashback to the early 1990's. I built a 26 x 30 pole barn to basically store "toys" in so no need for electricity etc. I always had it in the back of my mind that I would like to have a shop out there. I had a wood burning stove, some nice windows, and a six foot slider available. A partition and some insulation and I'd have it made. Anyway, back to the house project. Going with what I had planned would give me twice as much house as I need. The upstairs of the original house had three bedrooms. The plan was to combine two of the bedrooms into one master bedroom. The more I thought about it, the more I thought about using the two bedrooms for a shop/workroom as opposed to a big bedroom I had no use for. Besides the pole barn had no utilities, while I had everything I would need already available in the house (electricity, heat, water, a/c, windows, phone jacks, and cable outlets). So one day I did it. I knocked out the wall between the two bedrooms and gradually built up my shop. The downstairs is now finished and that's basically where I live.

I know, no pictures - it didn't happen. Here is a look into the shop from the living room.
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Please pardon the mess (it is usually better, but not much:D). Shop to living room
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Looking north
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Looking south
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Chilli and beer, however, requires a walk downstairs.

Bob
 
quinton said:
As a builder, I can safely say men would still be living in caves if it were not for women.:p
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Absolutely!

But here's a funny thing - women are easier to build for. Surprisingly they are better at making up their mind when it comes to building a house. The man knows he's going to get overruled anyway. And the women have no inclination to try to be more manly than their builder. I always liked building for women. And building for lawyers is good, too. But stay the heck away from doctors. Engineers can be hit and miss. The more involved the worse they are.
 
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