So I have to start off by admitting I have never rattled around anywhere beside the antique machinery forum, and I don't know enough about the site policy to know if this is an acceptable post so please accept my apologies in advance if this is the wrong place.
So to the point, my father set up a machine shop from the ground up in about 1985 for a company that had previously just done heavy fabricating (ship parts). As part of the process of outfitting the shop they bought several very large used machines in need of rebuilding and subsequently hired an old German friend of my family who was an expert hand scraper to recondition the way surfaces. Thinking they would do him a favor the owners bought a brand new biax scraper, flaker, and set of blades. The story still makes me chuckle, he politely picked up the scraper, looked at it and smiled, put it back in the box and never touched it again. He was dead set against power tools.
Aside from my father subsequently experimenting with them just to satisfy his curiosity, they were never used.
So that brings us to today, the machine shop was shut down in the downturn of '08 and last winter the roof collapsed. Because of my father's original involvement and my subsequent involvement with doing machining projects for them when the need arises I was involved with the salvage effort. One of the things I brought to my shop were the biax scraping tools (pulled them out of a cabinet buried under the rubble). I had originally thought I may play with them but ended up deciding they are just too valuable to collect dust at my shop. So after talking to the owner we agreed the best course of action is to sell them. I was originally thinking eBay, but then I remembered seeing some discussion of scraping on here and decided to see if there is any interest here before going the eBay route.
There is a model 7 ELM, a model HM 10, and a cutter set that I'm not really sure what tool it goes with. I'm not exaggerating when I say these are as close to show room quality new as it is possible to get without having locked them in a vault for the last 35 years.
So to the point, my father set up a machine shop from the ground up in about 1985 for a company that had previously just done heavy fabricating (ship parts). As part of the process of outfitting the shop they bought several very large used machines in need of rebuilding and subsequently hired an old German friend of my family who was an expert hand scraper to recondition the way surfaces. Thinking they would do him a favor the owners bought a brand new biax scraper, flaker, and set of blades. The story still makes me chuckle, he politely picked up the scraper, looked at it and smiled, put it back in the box and never touched it again. He was dead set against power tools.
Aside from my father subsequently experimenting with them just to satisfy his curiosity, they were never used.
So that brings us to today, the machine shop was shut down in the downturn of '08 and last winter the roof collapsed. Because of my father's original involvement and my subsequent involvement with doing machining projects for them when the need arises I was involved with the salvage effort. One of the things I brought to my shop were the biax scraping tools (pulled them out of a cabinet buried under the rubble). I had originally thought I may play with them but ended up deciding they are just too valuable to collect dust at my shop. So after talking to the owner we agreed the best course of action is to sell them. I was originally thinking eBay, but then I remembered seeing some discussion of scraping on here and decided to see if there is any interest here before going the eBay route.
There is a model 7 ELM, a model HM 10, and a cutter set that I'm not really sure what tool it goes with. I'm not exaggerating when I say these are as close to show room quality new as it is possible to get without having locked them in a vault for the last 35 years.
