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We went "shopping" at a series of yard sales along a stretch of Indiana highway. These are becoming more common all of the time. There is one each year along US 40 east-west across the state and other states.
The one we hit Friday was a section of Indiana 38 between Noblesville IN and New Castle IN. We hit it about the middle and went east. Not the best batch of sales we have ever hit but OK. We pretty much write off the expense as entertainment. We are prone to take Sunday drives (any day of the week) so these things become Sunday drives with stops.
I only bought a few things Friday, things that grabbed me were few. These Highway sales tend to draw a lot of vendors who rent a space from folks along the road and set up with either cheap new crap or over priced antiques.

At one of the better sales I spotted this Shopsmith miter gauge for $3. I told Diana that the tapered setscrew in the bar lock would cost me that much to order. Then near it I spotted this orange tote thingy tagged at $4. including contents. For those superstitious folks this thing is 13"x13"x13"... The rest of the pics are of the included contents minus some odd trash that didn't make it past the waste basket and two pieces of small rope about 20' long. This last one is a new aftermarket seat belt with the instructions still stapled to the end of the belt. Maybe I should install it on my woodshop stool. and the other thing I first thought might be a barn peg but the taper is nothing like the ones in any of my timber frame barns. Then I picked it up and decided that it was someones garden dibble. If it wasn't it is now.
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You did great on your "sale" finds. You can tell your wife the Mark V miter is an especially good deal as the tapered set screw price has gone up to $6.86. It can be handy to have an extra Miter around, sometimes two is better than one.
As for the tote that's a nice clamp and worth more than the $4 paid for the tote and contents. If the saws have life left in them that a bonus.

Those seatbelts are great for a bar stool if you have a friend with a habit of sipping too long.

garys wrote:Those seatbelts are great for a bar stool if you have a friend with a habit of sipping too long.

So you want to make it possible for that friend to SIT&SIP longer?

Who pray tell is refilling said friend's glass.

Looks like you got a Disston No. 12 saw, or any of the clones, which were all the best you could buy in the day!

Chris

Most of us call these "hand saws" now but when I was growing up they were often called "panel saws". Now if you do a search for a "panel saw" you get them but also a lot of pictures of sheet goods cutting saws.
We also generally speak of the "handle" on a panel hand saw but I used to hear the word "tote" a lot, just like on a plane.
I once saw a very good show (It might have been Roy Underhill) where they carefully explained each of the tiny details of the saw and its handle and why they were there. I have been trying to remember the function of the deep notch in the top of many of the old school handles but so far I can't recall and have not found anything. I keep thinking it was for a carpenter's pencil but I can't remember the other point.
These two panel saws are generally in decent shape and the teeth look and feel sharp and well set.
The Keyhole saw is a recent Stanley. The little panel saw is crude and toy like with a very small grip but with awfully big teeth for a toy.
The saw with a the black plastic handle with the metal side plates says "Made in Sweden" on the handle.
The older saw says on the blade "Newark Saw, Newark NJ, Cast steel, Warranted. The medallion screw says "Warranted Superior" As you can see in the picture below the tote has been broken both top and bottom and has been crudely patched. Note that this is the patch's good side... I have not decided yet what approach I want to take to this poor patch.
I have 20 some-odd panel saws many of which need cleaning and going over as well as maybe 16 or so key-hole saws, a few with the panel style tote and many of my back-saws have such a tote. No other saw I have has a tote of this style even though some of them are quite old.

Pretty cool!

Here is how I selectively milled one of those beautiful double-loop totes for a chipped "horn" repair (clamp removed for visibility). This was a Disston No. 12. Simonds and Atkins also had similar high-end models. Plus the Warranted Superior private-label ones...

Who doesn't love garage sales? I do love them for sure! I've been in the US for the past 3 years, and garage sales were such a new thing for me.