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Good Morning all, picked up a nice pile of woodworking tools this weekend, and while trying to research value I stumbled across this site- I’m sure all the salty scavengers know this one, but as a newbie it really helps me hone my eye to what folks are buying…
– oh boy been on the site for some time now, dang rabbit hole…
trying to find a sold value for these- no luck
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Neat website. I’ve bookmarked it.
I did find a website discussing the history of P & C tools:
Here is one chisel that sold on eBay for $7.99:
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I am a woodworker and lover of hand tools. Without knowing much about P&C, these chisels look like inexpensive contemporary Buck Chisels available at box stores: https://www.homedepot.com/p/Buck-Bros-Professional-Wood-Chisel-Set-3-Piece-40603/100067444
These inexpensive chisel sets are usually priced between $10 and $30Unless you can make the case through research that these chisels are significantly better than similar chisels that are sold by the orange box, you are likely going to find your price capped at around $10 to $20 (including shipping).
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My opinion: the problem with inexpensive chisels for fine wood working is that they are not flat backed which makes it nearly impossible to attain and maintain 90 degree angles on mortises and such. (You can make them flat backed with hours of labor per chisel). They also either dull too quickly or are too difficult to sharpen and have brittle edges that can easily chip. Cheap chisels are appropriate for banging around in a tool box and getting used as an everything tool (knife, screwdriver, chisel for a lock set, etc), but little else.
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Thanks for the info on the chisels- I found this and thought they may be worth something…
https://picclick.com/P-C-Tools-Chisel-1-4-No1670-Permaloid-Red-Handle-261401205895.html
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The website I linked to earlier gave a short history of the company. I only glanced through it, but it said that the company’s quality was reduced at some point – maybe in the 40’s? If you can figure out the date of the tools, maybe using the logo, perhaps you can figure out which factory they were made in.
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Cool site, I’ll definitely be flipping through it. Some thoughts though:
-We work with whatever the tide washes up. Researching what to look for is a kind of top-down approach to scavenging; best is to research what you find, which could be literally anything whatsoever.
-This site is very much about the high-dollar single item, whereas as scavengers quantity is often just as important.-
I agree with you to some extent, Simplico — researching what you find definitely makes the most sense. That said, this site — which is totally new to me, and I’m very excited about — could be a nice addition to the research/knowledge base. I just browsed the top selling midcentury collectibles (or whatever they’re calling that category) and learned about some bakelite/faturan umbrella handles that would not have been on my radar otherwise. Now I’ll be sure to look through the umbrella stand at the next estate sale. I wouldn’t spend a ton of time in this rabbit hole (which it surely is) but it’s a great place for ‘incidental learning.’
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Habnab, “Incidental learning”….I like that phrase! I do a lot of that—-and it does help me when I’m scavenging. It’s not so much that I’m actively searching for a certain something, it’s more like I may recognize something I should look up that, in the past, I wouldn’t have looked up because I wouldn’t have thought it was worth the trouble.
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