Laugh or cry?

I know. I was in an antique shop last week and saw a similar display (minus the planes).

-- Sweeping up sawdust in Texas

Ain’t no accounting for lack of taste.
Bill

-- bill@magraphics.us

That is cruel and unusual punishment for the tools. I would buy it for the tools. Give them a good home with lots of TLC.

-- Regret- the feeling you get just after you do something really stupid.

What is worrisome to me is that this kind of “shabby tool chic” might catch on and before long we’ll be competing with the home decor crowd for old tools.

-- "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." - Mark Twain

That reminds me of a hand-crafted box that I saw being sold online that used a Stanley 386 jointer plane fence as a hinge for the lid.

-- More tools, fewer machines.

Ha, I’ve seen that exact one a few times on CL … I’ve been tempted as well, wonder what the condition of them are…

-- Mos - Twin Cities, MN -- Stanley #45 Evangelist - www.youtube.com/MosquitoMods

I don’t want to encourage them to do it again. I think if I were to buy it, I would tell them point blank that I was going to dismantle it and maybe even do it in front of them, while admonishing them to quit ruining perfectly good tools.

-- "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." - Mark Twain

Okay that was just mean! how can people be so cruel ! :(

-- Steve - Wasilla, Alaska

Hah, gotta love the baby blue brace. I wonder if that is a bedrock #4 If so, well worth the price. I wonder how they attached the planes to the board, let’s hope that they didn’t drill holes through the casting.

-- Bondo Gaposis

who would think that looks good? Its just un-natural.

-- There is nothing like the sound of a well tuned hand plane. - http://timetestedtools.wordpress.com (timetestedtools at hotmail dot c0m)

there otta be a law, there is for everything else… just a damn shame to treat tools like that.. somebody needs a good slap up side the head..the slapping line starts to the left.. all aboard…Papa

-- Papa@papaswoodworking.com