Norris Spiers Infill Smoothing Plane on eBay. How high will it get?

and how hi are you going to go to buy it (L,m,a,o,)

-- Robert Laddusaw and no I am not smarter then a fifth grader ( and no I canot spell so if it is a problem don't read it ))

If you look at the bidding history, it looks like there are 2 people who really want it.

-- Rich, Cedar Rapids, IA - I'm a woodworker. I don't create beauty, I reveal it.

Oh, man, fellas don’t mention Ebay. I’ve dropped a small fortune there. I hadn’t been there in 6 months and and after you posted this I’m there as we speak. I’ve bought and sold there but mostly bought. It can be habit forming.

-- If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. Henry David Thoreau

Haha, I sometimes use ebay as a form of entertainment. The other day I started watching a block of Brazilian Rosewood 14” square X around 3” thick. The bidding started at like $14. I was like holy crap, maybe nobody else will see this and I can snag it up fairly cheap. Well obviously some other people saw it too. It sold for $188 and some change. It was still fun to watch. You get those folks that wait till there is 20 seconds left and jump in there with a high bid so you don’t have time to bid again,haha. Needless to say, I am easily amused.

-- -Zeke- "I hate to rush off, but I gotta go see a man about a log"

Brand new, unused, unopened it says in the description.

Reading below, it says a client used it to smooth a small board and then returned it…

Seems a little steep to me for a modern version of the original…

The way I read it, it isn’t a Norris Spiers, but a copy.

-- Randy "You are judged as much by the questions you ask as the answers you give..."

Come on it’s a plane! What make it worth that kind of money? Does it really plane n times better than your LV or LN plane? Some people must have more money than they know what to do with…I’ll gladly sell them any of my tools for 3 or 4 times what I paid for them.

-- "Checking for square? what madness is this! The cabinet is square because I will it to be so!" Jeremy Greiner LJ Topic#20953 2011 Feb 2

Mark, I will send it to you for a trial run for a week if I win it… :)

We all place value on different things…

The new owners of a colt (out of one of my mares) turned down $350,000 just a couple of weeks ago…

-- Randy "You are judged as much by the questions you ask as the answers you give..."

If you go to the makers website you will see the same plane for $950
http://www.gabardiandson.com/index_files/Page317.htm

-- Don in San Diego, Ca.

Guess that was enough:-) Thought you guys might get a kick out of that.

-- "some old things are lovely, warm still with life ... of the forgotten men who made them." - D.H. Lawrence Wake Up America!! Please read; http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/01/26-0

Man ohhhh man that some green for a plane!

-- Ken, "Everyday above ground is a good day!"

Jusfine,

Don’t send it to me I might like it and have to eat my words and find $1100!

-- "Checking for square? what madness is this! The cabinet is square because I will it to be so!" Jeremy Greiner LJ Topic#20953 2011 Feb 2