As some of you are aware, I am a bit of a scrounger of all items tool and woodworking related. OK, more than a bit... Closer to an auger than a bit actually, but I digress.
In my scrounging activities I have come across the following auction listing, which I think might appeal to many of our esteemed members, and probably to a bunch of the rest of you as well. And because I'm such a magnanimous, giving sort—who doesn't do any turning, or you guys would be SOL—I am making the membership aware of the event.
Here is a link to the image gallery for the auction:
http://www.auctionzip.com/cgi-bin/photopanel.cgi?listingid=2159272
You can easily navigate your way back to the details of the auction from that page, but you'll want to look at the pictures first.
The estate is of someone named Dean Amos; I do not know if he was a member here, but his work was quite sophisticated, and his tooling collection and wood stash were even more so. The auction takes place on Saturday August 23 in Sandy Ridge, which is very close to the Virginia border directly north of a line bisecting Winston Salem and Greensboro. Wind speeds may rea...
Sorry; not sure what happened there. Anyway, you should check it out, as there is some stuff I KNOW people here will want, including lots of bowl blanks, exotics, burls, all kinds of lathe tooling, carving gear, etc.
Enjoy!
K
In my scrounging activities I have come across the following auction listing, which I think might appeal to many of our esteemed members, and probably to a bunch of the rest of you as well. And because I'm such a magnanimous, giving sort—who doesn't do any turning, or you guys would be SOL—I am making the membership aware of the event.
Here is a link to the image gallery for the auction:
http://www.auctionzip.com/cgi-bin/photopanel.cgi?listingid=2159272
You can easily navigate your way back to the details of the auction from that page, but you'll want to look at the pictures first.
The estate is of someone named Dean Amos; I do not know if he was a member here, but his work was quite sophisticated, and his tooling collection and wood stash were even more so. The auction takes place on Saturday August 23 in Sandy Ridge, which is very close to the Virginia border directly north of a line bisecting Winston Salem and Greensboro. Wind speeds may rea...
Sorry; not sure what happened there. Anyway, you should check it out, as there is some stuff I KNOW people here will want, including lots of bowl blanks, exotics, burls, all kinds of lathe tooling, carving gear, etc.
Enjoy!
K