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Thread: The Colour of Money
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9th September 2013, 01:22 PM #1Jim
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The Colour of Money
The colour of a tool can have a powerful effect. Not that I believe certain colours will improve my creativity, temper or general well-being. It's the effect on my wallet that worries me especially when I'm in the middle of a crush at a market or car-boot sale. After all you have to make up your mind quickly or someone else might dive in and grab that tool. Four colours especially have a negative fiscal effect. It's black - could be a Stanley, blue - could be Record, red could be Marples and rust - could be really old so take a chance.
Get them home and find that they're cheap lookalikes or someone really has been creative with colour aided by a spray can. And the rust? Well it was thrown out into a damp shed for the simple reason it was a piece of garbage.
I've been caught with my share of pressed steel bodied planes and filigree chisels but sometimes, just sometimes, magic happens.Cheers,
Jim
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9th September 2013, 01:26 PM #2
and that is a teaser for what?
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9th September 2013, 01:32 PM #3Jim
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9th September 2013, 06:23 PM #4gravity is my co-pilot
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Isn't another name for those 'filigree chisels' poor man's damascus steel? Even Titans can look this way after the correct time in a bucket of water
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9th September 2013, 08:19 PM #5Senior Member
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To the glory of Titans
How can you talk of Titans in this way? They are sacred and the secret men's business of the Australian tool world. Begat by BHP on post war euphoria. Blessed by non other than Essington Lewis himself on the high altar of the Australian Steel indusrtry. Seeded from ores drawn from the bowels of the West Australian earth and taken by great ships to the East. Titans were first born at a two thousand degrees as liquid steel in the vulcan like blast furnaces of Newcastle. Hotter than the sun itself the old steel makers claim, hence the name Titan or Helios the sun god, who then appeared on the first decals. Once formed and shaped by great presses and hammers at the holy site in Hobart upon Derwent, the blades came into being. Mighty Tasmanian trees were felled and the handles were lovingly shaped by artisans to grace the blades. Chisel making 101 cry the critics but we know better. The Forties, Fifties, Sixties and even Seventies tradesmen of Australia have voted with their choice and have now moved on. We honour them, their labour and Titans as the tool that built Australia. Our noble purpose is to collect them, to preserve this great national heritage of men and sweat and tools and help pay collecting expenses by flogging our dupes.
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9th September 2013, 08:28 PM #6Jim
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Doggie, it's nice to know we're not hampered by sanity clauses.
Cheers,
Jim
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9th September 2013, 08:33 PM #7Retro Phrenologist
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The idea of them felling some great Tassie tree to make a chisel handle sounds just a tiny bit wasteful to me. Still, I guess the chips could have been processed into MDF.
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9th September 2013, 09:50 PM #8gravity is my co-pilot
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I stand beside you, shoulder-to-shoulder, saving that heritage, once tempered in the sweat of our forebears, and now held aloft so those aforementioned dupes can fall to their knees in awe (while reaching for their tightly rolled wads of patriotism).
Would you care for the three Titan firmers that I left forgotten for a month in a small tub of vinegar?
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9th September 2013, 10:29 PM #9Retro Phrenologist
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Crikey
I grew up in Mayfield and me dear old Dad slaved at the Steelworks (admin. building), I never knew all this went on.I just thought it smelt funny.____________________________________________________________
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9th September 2013, 10:34 PM #10gravity is my co-pilot
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9th September 2013, 10:44 PM #11Retro Phrenologist
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9th September 2013, 11:31 PM #12Jim
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Used to live in Sheffield. Now the furnaces at night, that really was the colour of money.
Cheers,
Jim