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e drawer to fit the drawer bottom in then i nailed the bottom to drawer so that it would fit better and not fall in a couple of hours in the shop and the table is ready for another hundred years of service i m not going to do anything to the back stretcher to make it match the rest of the table i doubt no one will even notice it buying old tools on may 24 2026 may 24 2026 by mvflaim furnituremaker in antique tools leave a comment when you re looking at where to buy old tools you need to decide where to go when i started collecting tools back in the 1980s the main places were antique shows flea markets and antique malls even after all these years these are still the easiest places to find general woodworking tools at a good price you get to look at what you re buying to see how good the condition is then you can barter on the price if you want with the seller large antique shows and flea markets have hundreds of vendors during the show if you re looking for common planes chisels and saws this is the best place to be after buying tools for forty years this is still the primary place where i buy tools however since the 80s numerous other places to buy old tools have opened up mainly because of the internet ebay is by far the easiest way to find what type of tool you re looking for a simple quick search can lead you right to the type of tool you re looking for as well as its vintage prominent ebay sellers will take multiple pictures of the tool and include a solid description of what you re buying on ebay you can either wait for the auction to be over or simply buy it with a buy it now button ebay is where i ve been selling my restored tools for the past twenty years and will probably continue to do so for the next twenty antique tool sellers personal websites are also another resource they too will categorize their inventory into a search format so that you can easily find what you re looking for tool collector websites often sell tools that are in good to mint condition so little restoration may be needed with this the pricing on their tools will often be more than what certain ebay sellers will have but not always online classifieds like craigslist and facebook marketplace are another option in my experience using those platforms i ve i have found that sellers are often very vague in their description and only include one or two pictures of what they re selling i rarely buy tools through those two platforms as i don t like having to schedule a time to meet up with the seller and prices are often too high anyway along with facebook marketplace facebook tool groups is another way to buy old tools there are dozens of tool collecting groups on facebook that specialize everything from restoring workbenches to using stanley planes to collecting infill planes the members of the group will post pictures of the tools they want to sell along with their price there are also facebook groups where you can bid on tools like an auction or even swap tools for trade i have never bought anything from any of these groups as i have heard and seen too many scammers listing tools they don t even own just to take money from the buyer and split others may have had luck with these groups yard sales is another way to buy old tools however the yard sales around me are always filled with clothes and baby toys driving around town from a yard sale to yard sale is a painful way for me to spend a saturday afternoon unless it s a barn sale out in the country i generally skip any community yard sale with one very large exception the us 127 world s longest yard sale the us 127 world s longest yard sale runs from michigan to alabama on state route us 127 the first weekend of august this sale is hundreds of miles long and has thousands of vendors who set up from the thursday through sunday of the show in fact the sale is so large that many sellers will set up the weekend before the show even starts anything and everything is sold during this show every year i spend several days traveling up and down us 127 between ohio and tennessee looking for old tools some years i hit the jackpot others i get skunked only coming home with a handful of tools but the show is amazing i call it the super bowl of antique shows another good place to buy old tools is from tool collector associations the largest is the mid west tool collectors association but there are a few smaller regional assoctions like the ohio tool collectors and patina each association will have shows several times a year around the country where members meet up and show and sell their tools it s a great way to meet fellow tool collectors and learn about the tools they own it s one of the best ways to learn about old tools and how they work the most fun i have buying old tools is from antique tool auctions i prefer the live ones but their are a lot more that appear online that i participate in live auctions are full of action as the auctioneer bids out the tool to the gallery i get a rush trying to win something i ve been waiting several minutes to hit the auction block i m always hoping that i m the only one who wants the tool and in some cases that has happened but for the most part i have to bid against my fellow tool collectors i always have a set price of what i want to pay and also take into consideration if there is a buyers premium and tax taken on top of my bid buyers premium is a fee many auction companies will use in order to cover some of the cost of setting up the auction many times the buyers premium will be 10 15 however i ve seen some as high as 20 you ll need to be careful when bidding so you don t inadvertently overpay for your tool if a buyers premium is 15 and they charge tax i automatically adjust my bid fees to 20 in my head so if i m willing to pay 100 for a tool my max bid will be 80 00 80 00 bid 12 00 buyers premium 6 00 tax comes to 98 00 my first show on may 18 2026 by mvflaim furnituremaker in uncategorized leave a comment yesterday i did something that i have never done in 20 years of selling antique tools i set up a booth at the burlington antique show in burlington ky the reason for my booth was that my wife anita is down sizing her booth rentals at the new antique mall she is in she s been renting two rooms for the past few months while her sales have been phenomenal she found taking care of two rooms filling it up with antiques was too much to bear plus the majority of the sales were coming from the one room by the register the furniture she was selling in the back room she was getting off her facebook marketplace ads she told me she doesn t need to spend 400 a month in rent if she could just as easily sell it in the garage instead makes sense to me so saturday night we loaded some of the stuff that was still in the back room and shoved it in my truck to head to the antique show in the morning since i was going to work the show i decided to bring some of my tools with me and put them out for sale i decided to bring tools that were too big to ship i sell planes and smaller items on ebay all the time but shipping large items has always been a pain in the ass first it s hard to find a box to fit the tool and then it s hard to estimate total shipping if i don t have the box on hand i ve been burned more times than not when it comes to shipping big tools i woke up at 4 00am and headed out the door at 4 45 arriving at the fairgrounds at 5 30 am this gave me 30 minutes to unload and set up the booth i didn t have too much stuff as all i had was what i could fit in my pickup truck but hopefully i had enough to make it worth my time i put most of my tools on a white metal shelf anita had in her booth on top were big panel raising planes on the two shelves were smaller tools that i sold for 5 00 each i ve found over the past year that cheap tools don t sell well on ebay anymore the buyer will pay 5 00 for the tools but will spend 13 00 in shipping i mainly ship usps priority mail for the free boxes but i ve been rethinking about buying my own boxes and switching to ups the tool of the day was this stanley no 100 picture framers miter box i had 50 00 on it which was a steal even though i could probably sell it on ebay for more the shipping would be outrageous in fact i checked ebay recent sales and one sold for 50 00 with 120 00 in shipping no thanks i ll sell it here and let the buyer save the money i sat out all day sitting on my trucks tailgate and spoke to numerous customers everybody was nice and thankfully had cash i don t have venmo so cash was the only payment i would take i negotiated with customers all the time making sure they felt they were getting a good deal a lot of time if i had 20 00 on an item they would ask if i would take 15 00 i always said yes and never missed out on a sale my goal was to sell 400 for the day by 10 00 am i was close at 280 00 the 5 00 tool shelves were the most popular as customers were looking for deals people would look at the panel raiser planes but no one offered me anything for one anita s stuff was more popular with customers than my tools but i expected that most of my customers were women by noon i hit my goal as i surpassed 400 there were plenty of customers left still walking around so i was happy to still sit on my truck s tailgate nearing the end of the show a guy came back to look at the stanley no 100 miter box he asked me what my bottom price was for it i told him 40 00 and he took it it was a little less than what i really wanted for it but i was glad it was going to a good home in the end i sold 641 00 worth of stuff out of that 263 00 were my tools there was an old file cabinet and that white metal shelf that came home with me anita didn t want either one back in the garage so i took it to the recycling center this morning and got 18 25 in scrap metal for it doing the show was a lot of fun it was nice sitting out and relaxing a little bit and talking to people all day and making new friends i ll definitely do it again in fact i m considering buying an enclosed trailer so that i can bring more items with me in the future if i had a lot more inventory i think i could sell thousands of dollars during the show i know several people who do the same fine woodworking s first 10 issues on march 29 2026 march 29 2026 by mvflaim furnituremaker in workshop leave a comment this weekend i had the opportunity to buy the first ten issues of fine woodworking at an antique mall in northern ohio when i saw them laying on a magazine rack i couldn t believe what i was looking at even more so was the price of each issue a mere 0 50 each unbelievable when i got home i looked through the issues and read some of the articles the first issue of fine woodworking had an article near and dear to my heart hand planes with the caption the care and making of a misunderstood tool this shows you how this was the very beginning of a magazine dedicated to woodworking if the common woodworker thought of a hand plane as being a weird foreign object scanning the magazines i saw tage frid was an early contributor with several articles he wrote in first few issues along with frid there are articles by james krenov jere osgood and bruce hoadley a basic who s who of 20th century woodworkers the first issue had very few advertisements but the magazine quickly grew thicker in a couple of years as woodworking companies saw the opportunity to reach their audience by placing an ad in their pages it s interesting but a bit sad to see the companies that were thriving 50 years ago only to go bankrupt or be acquired over the years the issues are full of now defunct woodworking companies i m still in the process of reading all the articles but there is a wealth of knowledge with these issues the one thing i did notice is back in the early days the magazine focused a lot on wood carving and occasionally had articles on blacksmithing something that you would rarely find in today s issues i checked ebay to see what these magazines might be worth they re actually worth a lot less than i would have thought you can currently buy the first 12 issues for around 40 00 of course you can buy all the issues of fine woodworking online if you don t mind having a digital copy i m old school and still like holding a magazine in my hand instead of on my phone display cabinet on january 25 2026 january 25 2026 by mvflaim furnituremaker in furniture leave a comment anita got two new booths in the antique mall she sells in she went from having a small 8 x 10 l shaped booth to having two big rooms because of this she needed a big display cabinet for the back wall in one of her rooms she searched the internet and asked me if i could make this apothecary cabinet for her she wanted the piece to be made of a light colored wood but didn t want maple or poplar we went to lowes and bought a bunch of 1 12 s that were a light pine made in sweden being that they were from sweden i assume that it s the same pine that ikea uses in their furniture the first thing i did was make the legs by glueing up boards into a square there s a special lock miter router bit for this purpose but i have always heard that your stock has to be completely straight and flat in order for the bit to work well my boards were neither so i opted for 45 degree cuts and a lot of clamping pressure with band clamps and duct tape fortunately they came out fine after the legs were made i cut notches into them to fit the shelves then i wrapped the edge of the shelves with 1 1 4 pieces of wood on the end grain i used a little bit of glue and pocket screws for the wood movemnet the rest of the base was built with festool dominoes and glue i wanted robust drawers so i made those with handcut half blind dovetails it s a lot of fun cutting dovetails by hand and it really doesn t take too long once you get the hang of it i wanted to make sure that the drawers wouldn t bind so i made the drawers a 1 8 smaller in length and height so there would be a 1 16 gap all around i made sure the drawer runners were 1 16 proud of the opening and screwed them in place with pocket screws and glue once the base was made i focused on the top i wanted the sides to have a thicker panel in the middle of them so i glued up the 1 8 panels together i used as many clamps i could find and stuck newspaper between the two panels so they wouldn t stick together luckily when the panels dried i was left with two oversized panels for the sides of the cabinet i built the case with more dominoes and glue and created adjustable shelf supports with the scrap wood i had left over i love this technique for adjustable shelves you drill a 3 4 hole every 2 then you rip the piece in half on the table saw then for the support you add a 1 filler on the bottom of the support stick this way if you need your shelf 1 higher you simply flip over your shelf support i installed the back with more of the 1 8 thick panel wood and anita put a natural aging solution on the piece as she didn t ...