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Estate sale ($3): Plumb national pattern (2.5#) hatchet; Gransfor Bruk (1.1#) hatchet. The plumb handle looks the right color, but unsure as to whether they made a national pattern with a straight handle. First Gransfors Bruks found in the wild. The handle is stamped "STRO-BRO" and below it...

Estate sale ($15): Books and a game. The game is pretty cool. It's a series of interlocking cards that you use to build a fable.

Estate sale ($25): Benjamin 3100 BB gun. Knew it was going to need a new seal kit, but found out it takes a special tool to install, plus it needed a new pump lever spring. Just didn't have the gumption to do the work. Listed it for $140 on fleabay for parts and sold in minutes. Neat gun.

Estate sales ($216): Pfaff oil can, Dunlop 5244 vise; Stanley Four Square no. 5-1/4; Disston D-8 Dual Grip rip saw (Philada 1896-1917); Horner 150th anniversary and Chromonica 260 harmonicas; Zim Gar bongos; M126A1 Signal illumination ground red star parachute; Rockwell and Duncan Model 60...

Nice score. Dig the Palmgren machinist vise plus all the precision gear... for $50. That's definitely a U-****

Whoa that's a nice Hout drill box. Smaller ones show up at industrial auctions and I'm always surprised how much they go for. That's definitely a U **** for picking that up free.

Estate sale ($40): 22" Jet scroll saw (JWSS-22B) w/ OEM stand and pedal: Floor stand tools seem to hit some sort of ceiling and then they're all $40 regardless of manufacturer. I guess they're just not enough demand to actually figure out a price.

Just pulled the brains out of a Pfaff 360. I don't know why I'm a sucker for sewing machines. They're almost always gummed up as heck. Picked it up for $40 so not even that great a deal, but if I can get it going the daughter will be thrilled to have a machine that will embroider. We'll see.

You guys are cooking this week. Picked up this Hilti diamond core drilling system for $239 at an industrial auction: Hilti DD130 Drill; DD130-RIG; DD VP-U Vacuum pump. Whole thing powers up and holds a vacuum.

Nice rifflers all those carving files are super nice to have. That's a U **** on those alone, throw in the calipers and the no. 5 and that' a sweet haul.

Wow $20, man you **** on that haul. Ton's of nice and interesting precision gear. Keep us up to date on the Variac. Haven't found one yet, but they're sweet, along with all the other gear.

Industrial auction ($16): 14" Simplex 1-3/4" x 10" screw jack. 1st the Handyman jack and now a Simplex. Things come in waves.

"Now that's a knife". Well not quite that much knife, but still a lot of knife.

Estate sale ($18): 48" Handyman high lift jack (1921); German WWII M31 RZM FA2/34 canteen cover and cap (Heinrich Ritter, Eßlingen Württemberg, 1934); Camillus 7" Sword Brand Grand Canyon #1014 knife. Fun to find the jack. Normally, they're picked pretty quickly, but in this case the bulk of...

According to my daughter, "It is dressing up in reference to an existing IP". IP being, intellectual property. So Star War's conventions when you dress up in reference to a particular character, but not Renaissance Faire where you just portraying a time period and not a specific IP...