Newsletter Of the Pacific Northwest Tool 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 2 3 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 tools. 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 6 7 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. 8 9 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 10 11 12 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 drill presses, table saws, 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. 14 JUNE 2019 SAM HILL ESTATE AUCTION Lot# Description Price 3751 Bedrock 606C $70.00 3752 Stanley #29 transitional $25.00 3753 Stanley #8 $50.00 3754 Atkins mitre box saw $10.00 3755 Four #101 size block planes $40.00 3756 Gay's & Oak 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 square $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 plane $110.00 3775 Small razee $90.00 3776 Stanley #90 $45.00 3777 Stanley #92 $70.00 3778 Stanley #79 w/ fence $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" drawknife $30.00 3784 Millers Falls #88 fence $15.00 3785 Stanley #386 fence $30.00 3786 Bailey Victor