Newsletter Of the Pacific Northwest Collectors Volume XXXVI December 2019 No 3

Meeting Dates 1

Dues for 2020 2

BITW Registration Form 4

August Meeting Notes 5 Scholarship Report 6

October Meeting Notes 8

November Meeting Notes 10 Scholarship Report 11

Disposing of your Tool Collection Bill Racine 13

Auction Results 15

Estate Items for Sale 25

Collectors Inventory Form 27

Advertizing 28

Pictures by Tim Cook & Jim Halloran

2020 Meeting Schedule

January 11, Washington

February 15, Oregon

March 14, Washington

April 4, Oregon

May 16, Washington

June 6, Oregon Flea Market

August 13 – 15, Washington Best in the West

September 12, Oregon

October 10, Washington Jerry Lane’s

November 14, Oregon

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4 August 10, 2019 Meeting Notes

Meeting held at Bill Racine’s in Hillsboro OR. President Racine opened the meeting with introduction of officers and volunteers.

New Members were Rick Redden,Ty Vanorden,

Treasurer’s Reports: by Bill Racine $14,924.11 in General Fund $ 3,652.17 in Scholarship Fund (thanks to 2 generous donations!) $ 1,500.00 in Best in the West Fund

Announcements: Tool Sale Fee – Remember to pay 2% for all sales of .

Old Business: Scholarship – Following discussion a motion was made by Steve Crow to have Mike Hyink continue to evaluate scholarship applications as he has in the past. Motion carried.

New Business: BITW 2020 to be held at LaQuinta Inn,Tacoma WA. Contract has been signed. See the registration form on page xx or download from the website.

Newsletter – Jim Halloran is our new Newsletter Editor. A committee consisting of Jacob Norton Steve Broderick, Jack Birky Doug Siemens, Jim Halloran, Steve Johnson, and Chuck Guilford will study future of the newsletter and report back to the club. 2018 cost to mail the newsletter was $5,314.26.

For the Good of the Order: Flea Market held in June, about 155 members attended. Next flea market June 2020.

New Club Mailing Address: PNTC, PO Box 1858, Beaverton OR 97075

Today’s schedule: 10:00 meeting; 10:30 open sales; 11:30 auction; 12:00 lunch; Includes cake for Jack Birky’s years of service as newsletter editor 12:45 auction

Motion to charge $5 per sales table starting in July passed in Oregon and Washington. .Steve Crow will collect.

Thanks to: Steve Crow for installing a handrail on stairs at Bill Racine’s. Jerry and Diane Lane for hosting July meeting! Great food too!

October meeting – possible road closure. If so, go past Tile Flat Rd to Clark Hill Rd.

Nominating Committee volunteers needed to compile list of officers for 2020. Contact Bill Racine if you can volunteer. Vince Bogard, Oregon Secretary 5

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October 12, 2019 Meeting Notes

Introduction of officers and volunteers – Bill Racine

New Members and Guests

Treasurers Report – Doug Siemans

General Fund $15,019.95 Scholarship Fund $3,652.17 (Thanks to Grace Scotts generous $4,000 donation honoring husband Eion Best in the West $1,500.00

Newsletter Committee – Jim Halloran

The Committee developed the following options:

1.Put the newsletter on the website. Leave it unrestricted. Anyone could view. 2.Put the newsletter on the website. Password access, only members can view. 3. Put the newsletter on a separate website, with password access. 4. Do a direct email of the newsletter as an attachment

The committee recommended options 1, and 4 for consideration by the membership at large.

A motion was proposed, seconded, and passed to put the newsletter on the unrestricted website, and to do a direct email of the newsletter as an attachment. The motion was amended to place the maps, and list of officers contact information in a separate part of the website, for security.

Good of the Order

Last Meeting Date : November 9, Washington

Motion to charge $5 per sales table. Motion passed in Oregon and Washington, starting in July. Steve Crowe will collect.

Todays Schedule: 10:00 Meeting 10:30 Open Sales 11:30 Auction 12:00 Lunch (Chilli Dogs, Potato Salad, Apple Crisp & Ice Cream. 12:50 Auction

Nominating Committee for new term of officers: Darrell Six, Steve Broderick, Jack Birky, and Steve Crow.

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November 9, 2019 Meeting Notes

Introduce Officers

Introduce volunteers

New Members Jeremy Palenchar, Quenton Corn, John Bolcer, Noah Oldham, Hannah Todd, Michael Alm. Welcome All!

Treasurers Report – Steve Brodrick General Fund $15,956.45 Scholarship Fund $5,152.17 (Thanks to Grace Scotts generous $4,000 donation honoring husband Eion Best in the West $2,172.00

Announcements Please pay your 2020 dues today so Steve can get new name tags made. Don’t forget: 2% for all tool sales due Old Business Scholarship Status – Michael Hyink See below BITW update -Registration forms are on the website - Conrad

New Business Newsletter committee – Steve Broderick, Steve Johnson, Doug Siemans, Jim Halloran, Jack Birky, Chuck Guilford, Jacob Norton.

Motion made and passed in Washington to adopt Options 1 & 4 . Also passed in Oregon in September. Committee made recommendations to “sanitize” the newsletter, i.e., maps, and contact information of officers would be moved to a secure part of the website

Nominating Committee - Darrell Six, Steve Broderick, Jack Birky and Steve Crow. Slate of officers Nominations from the floor Election in January.

Good of the Order Meeting dates for 2020 - See page xx this newsletter

Todays Schedule: 10:00 Meeting 10:30 Theme of the day 11:00 Open sales

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Editors Note: I asked bill to write about the process and the amount of time and effort required preparing and organizing for our tool auctions. While Bill doesn’t get specific about the hours involved; you can easily read between the lines, and see there is a considerable effort by Bill and the other volunteers who help him JH

Disposing of Your Tool Collection

By Bill Racine

Now here is a subject that we will all have to think about sooner or later. I have been asked to describe the procedure our Pacific Northwest Tool Collectors club goes through in disposing of collections offered to us. I hope this narrative will answer many of your questions and perhaps give you inspiration.

I am sure you wonder what exactly will happen to your tools should you choose to use the club to dispose of them; this narrative is here to help you with those questions.

At our regular meetings, we often have auctions of tools donated or entrusted to our club for disposal. This gives members and non-members an avenue for disposing of their collection and having it go to others who want and will appreciate all their collecting efforts.

I am often called when someone is interested in letting go of their tools. If that person or estate is in the Portland or surrounding area, I will go to them to see what they have and let them know the best way of handling their collection. If the tools are in the Seattle area, there are members there to do the same. If it is determined that an auction is the way to go, I will pick up the tools—which I can always use help loading and unloading those boxes—and bring them to my place, PNTC’s usual Oregon meeting location. This usually takes a whole and sometimes be it a very long day. I then lay out all the tools on tables, arrange them into about 50 to 75 lots per auction, and tag them with lot numbers. This takes any many hours over two, three, even four days, depending on the number of tools. Lots consists of one tool or a group of tools—depending on their value.

After all the organization is completed, I write a manifest describing each lot. After carrying all the lots upstairs, I then store them until laying them out again for preview by members early on the day of the auction. This takes hours and hours again.

13 Our club’s auction team from then on runs the show. Our computer team records the prices realized, makes a manifest showing those prices, and the final total is then printed out. That evening after the meeting I take the totals and deduct the club’s commission (15% for members and 20% for non-members). I immediately write a check to the seller and send it along with a copy of the manifest showing the realized prices. This and other loose ends take up another two hours. When a member’s larger collection auctions for over $10,000, from that mark on the club’s commission drops to 10 percent.

PNTC does not dispose the larger tools such as presses, table , radial arm saws, etc.

Please note: In picking up a seller’s collection, I am always in need of help in loading and unloading the boxes. If you have questions, I may be contacted at (503) 628-1488. Our club is happy to help.

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Lot# Description Price 3751 Bedrock 606C $70.00 3752 Stanley #29 transitional $25.00 3753 Stanley #8 $50.00 3754 Atkins $10.00 3755 Four #101 size block planes $40.00 3756 Gay's & Leaf $15.00 3757 Disston #7 saw $24.00 3758 Stanley #6 $20.00 3759 Stanley #4 $30.00 3760 Wards #45 w/ irons $70.00 3761 Yankee brace $24.00 3762 Capitol saw works $20.00 3763 Swan hollow auger IOB $50.00 3764 Stanley #140 $55.00 3765 Stanley #45 $90.00 3766 Stanley #112 $90.00 3767 Stanley #4-1/2 $45.00 3768 TD take-down $30.00 3769 Stanley #40 $40.00 3770 Bedrock 608 $105.00 3771 Bedrock 607C $50.00 3772 Bedrock 605-1/2 $120.00 3773 Keen Kutter #5C $35.00 3774 Smoothing $110.00 3775 Small razee $90.00 3776 Stanley #90 $45.00 3777 Stanley #92 $70.00 3778 Stanley #79 w/ $40.00 3779 Two small brass planes $40.00 3780 Trammel points $25.00 3781 Greenlee screwdriver IOB $25.00 3782 Cook's patent level $35.00 3783 14" $30.00 3784 Millers Falls #88 fence $15.00 3785 Stanley #386 fence $30.00 3786 Bailey Victor #8 size $140.00 3787 Gage G5 $45.00

15 JUNE 2019 SAM HILL ESTATE AUCTION

Lot# Description Price 3788 Harvey Peace handsaw $55.00 3789 Walter book +1 $50.00 3790 Two Eric Sloane books +1 $20.00 3791 Stanley #33 $15.00 3792 Stanley #8C $80.00 3793 Bedrock #605 $55.00 3794 Disston D100 $30.00 3795 Bailey Victor #6 $40.00 3796 Atkins #70 saw $90.00 3797 Keen Kutter #8 $75.00 3798 Bedrock #607 $90.00 3799 Bailey Victor #8 $75.00

16 JUNE 2019 GUNNARSON ESTATE AUCTION

Lot# Description Price 3852 Vintage door hardware $5.00 3853 Miscellaneous fishing $2.00 3855 Rules & measuring lot $6.00 3856 $5.00 3857 Mini $2.00 3858 Screwdrivers $2.00 3859 Lots of screwdrivers $6.00 3860 blades $14.00 3861 Sharp tools $3.00 3862 Hardware $6.00 3863 Drill bits $14.00 3864 Screwdriver bits $10.00 3865 Paddle bits $5.00 3866 Vintage bits $5.00 3867 Pliers lot $12.00 3868 Hammer lot $9.00 3869 Wrench lot $5.00 3870 Wrench lot including Ford $20.00 3871 Lathe tooling $18.00 3872 Cold $5.00 3873 Scraper lot $1.00 3874 Stanley scrapers lot $22.00 3875 Scraper parts lot $10.00 3876 Punches lot $10.00 3877 Tool literature $10.00 3878 Tool literature including Delta $11.00 3879 Tool literature $4.00 3880 Stanley books $18.00 3881 Miscellaneous tool books $5.00 3882 Tool books $14.00 3883 Starrett & Lufkin catalogs $8.00 3884 Huther Saw catalog +1 $5.00 3885 Catalogs $20.00 3886 Audel set $10.00 3887 Stanley & Sargent books $28.00 3888 books $14.00

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Lot# Description Price 3889 Folding drawknife $18.00 3890 Tool rolls $10.00 3891 Carving tools $12.00 3892 Saw tools $5.00 3893 Saws $10.00 3894 Saw vices & miscellaneous $5.00 3895 saw blades $10.00 3896 Millers Falls hacksaw $18.00 3897 Hacksaw lot $5.00 3898 Levels $12.00 3899 Plane irons $10.00 3900 Plane parts $5.00 3901 Plane wood parts $2.00 3902 irons $5.00 3903 Block plane parts $1.00 3904 lot $6.00 3905 Chisel lot $8.00 3906 Chisel lot $10.00 3907 Chisel lot $5.00 3908 Stone lot $18.00 3909 Wood plane, miscellaneous $3.00 3910 Leather tools $13.00 3911 Plane parts $2.00 3912 Keen Kutter #5 body $5.00 3913 Drill bits in roll $27.00 3914 Drill bits in roll $12.00 3915 Three $10.00 3916 Knife lot $28.00 3917 $34.00 3918 Drills & drill plate $5.00 3919 Squares & miscellaneous $10.00 3920 Food chopper, large $26.00 3921 Machinist tools $26.00 3922 Duby & Shinn square $20.00 3923 Clean Cut head $22.00 3924 Lathe tool set & misc $18.00 3925 Glass cutters $35.00

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JUNE 2019 GUNNARSON ESTATE AUCTION

Lot# Description Price 3926 Two hatchets w/ sheaths $25.00 3927 Two saw filer hammers $35.00 3928 Unusual hammer $10.00 3929 Tiny ball peen hammer $12.00 3930 Blue Pt hammer $26.00 3931 Butterfly hammer $10.00 3932 Two Stanley #5 note irons $16.00 3933 Falcon & Russian planes $20.00 3934 Stanley #5 & #51 $20.00 3935 Two Stanley #78 $10.00 3936 Wards #78 in box $25.00 3937 British $30.00 3938 Sash router $18.00 3939 Two Stanley #48 $40.00 3940 Stanley #148 $40.00 3941 Stanley 34-1/4 rule $11.00 3942 Sugar nippers $5.00 3943 Boston wrench $55.00 3944 Plane parts $10.00 3945 Router $16.00 3946 Stanley level $10.00 3947 Stanley #95 $40.00 3948 Stanley #144-1/2 no iron $20.00 3949 plane $45.00 3950 Rabbet plane $55.00

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AUGUST 2019 SWARTZ AUCTION

Lot# Description Price 3380 Stanley Bailey #7 $35.00 3381 Misc, clamps, hammer $5.00 3382 Pipe wrenches, puller, misc $3.00 3383 Hammers $30.00 3384 Books $15.00 3385 Misc, hacksaws, pipe $4.00 3386 Rules $2.00 3387 Braces, Miscellaneous $2.00 3388 Soldering irons $2.00 3389 planes $22.00 3390 Molding planes $40.00 3391 Books $45.00 Knives, Keen Kutter hatchet,other hatchet $9.00 3392 heads 3394 Pipe wrenches $6.00 3395 Screwdrivers $1.00 3396 Molding planes $20.00 3397 Molding planes $45.00 3398 Three shaves $5.00 3399 Hammers, pipe cutter $5.00 3400 Flexible $20.00 3401 Drill bits $6.00 3402 Planes $5.00 3403 Hammers $12.00 3404 Books $50.00 3405 Molding planes $15.00 3406 Soldering irons $5.00 3407 Transitional planes $10.00 3408 Stanley Bailey #7 $25.00 3409 Billiard balls, yard sticks $20.00 3410 Planes $11.00 3411 square, pipe wrench, stamp set, $5.00 3414 Books $7.00 3415 Two pipe wrenches, two hammers $20.00 3416 Molding planes $16.00 3417 Hammers $24.00 3418 Hammers $10.00 3419 Soldering irons $12.00

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Lot# Description Price

3420 Molding planes $44.00 3421 Books $12.00 3422 Hammers $10.00 3423 Blow force torch(new), $5.00 3424 Books, Stanley Tools by Walter $40.00 3425 Nail pullers $10.00 3426 Torches, Miscellaneous $5.00 3427 Wood drill bits $26.00 3428 Molding planes $35.00 3429 Gun kit $20.00 3430 Barrel plane $18.00 3431 Stanley Bailey #7 $40.00 3432 Bedrock #608c $110.00 8493 & Handles $45.00 8494 Atkins saw $25.00 8495 Atkins #54 Saw $18.00 8496 Disston #7 Saw $22.00 8497 Richardson Bros. Saw $45.00

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OCTOBER 2019 WARREN AUCTION

Lot # Description Price 300 Two corner braces $22.00 301 Block planes $5.00 302 Marking gauges $12.00 303 Braces $10.00 304 Braces $22.00 305 Books $18.00 306 Books $14.00 307 Books $36.00 308 Books $20.00 309 Braces $58.00 310 Brill bits $20.00 311 Braces $10.00 312 Valve tools $10.00 313 Miscellaneous $7.00 314 Books $25.00 315 Books $35.00 316 Books $10.00 317 Books $40.00 318 Books $10.00 319 Miscellaneous $55.00 320 Drills $10.00 321 Miscellaneous $12.00 322 Braces $65.00 323 Braces $25.00 324 Yankee drill bits $14.00 325 Wrenches $5.00 326 Drafting tools $11.00 327 Push drills $5.00 328 Yankee drills $10.00 329 Spoke shaves, wrench $25.00 330 Price guides $10.00 331 Books $30.00 332 Books $45.00 333 Books $50.00

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OCTOBER 2019 WARREN AUCTION

Lot # Description Price 334 Braces $7.00 335 Braces $60.00 336 Nosing plane, molding plane $16.00 337 Tongue & plane, molding plane $60.00 338 Books $50.00 339 Books $15.00 340 Books $30.00 341 Yankee drill, Union #24, Stanley#40 $30.00 342 Butt gauges $10.00 343 Spoke shaves $30.00 344 Drill bits $9.00 345 Scraper, spoke shaves $45.00 346 Hollow augers $65.00 347 Braces $40.00 348 Hollow augers $50.00 349 Braces $35.00 350 ? $310.00

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