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Self guided gouge

Emiliano Achaval

Emiliano Achaval

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EF9A9DE9-3D0F-4BC9-8825-73E7BD624F15.jpeg Looking around Ebay found a gouge that for the price they are charging I think that it's a self guided tool, all you do is set it on the bed of the lathe, and when you come back a few hours later, the bowl is done, the shop is clean and maybe even she managed to pack the bowl for shipping.... Wonder who would buy a Carter and sons for that price?
 
Doug Rasmussen said:
hat's the point of this posting?
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Gave me a laugh!

My first introduction to eBay - I was working for DoD and we had three enterprising airmen getting free stuff from the National Cryptologic Museum and selling it on eBay with a fluffed up narrative that made it sound like it had been misappropriated from the vaults of CIA and NSA.
Do we give them a promotion for ingenuity or an Article 15?
In the end we told them there was a lifetime limit on free stuff for each visitor and congratulated them on their short run as eBay oligarchs.
 
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381.33 or 144.95, regular price, there is no difference to me realitively. Both prices are out of line.

I bought most of my tools 20 years ago when most turning tools were m2 costing between 20-60 dollars. Today the prices in our niche market are absolutely out of control. I find it difficult to offer guidance to newbies.
It is also hard to find value, for example, in a steel rod with a piece of carbide attached costing 135 bucks. Without guidance, a newbie may feel the need to purchase 3 shapes and 3 sizes.

So buyer beware of your unscrupulous Ebay vendors and your friendly woodturning catalogues.
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Post was intended as a laugh and as buyers beware and maybe as a what the heck is that person thinking trying to rob a fellow woodturner. I know everyone here would never buy that tool for that prize. EBay is great, you have to know what you want and what you are willing to pay. Aloha
 
P. T. Barnum- There's a sucker born every minute. Read about his life and see how he made money not illegally but taking advantage of people's curiosity.
I'll stick with my HF tool set and my Benjamin's Best bowl gouge.
 
hockenbery said:
Gave me a laugh!

My first introduction to eBay - I was working for DoD and we had three enterprising airmen getting free stuff from the National Cryptologic Museum and selling it on eBay with a fluffed up narrative that made it sound like it had been misappropriated from the vaults of CIA and NSA.
Do we give them a promotion for ingenuity or an Article 15?
In the end we told them there was a lifetime limit on free stuff for each visitor and congratulated them on their short run as eBay oligarchs.
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Haha now I will doubt every Ebay sell... That's a funny story!
 
Well I just made my own Cole Jaws, Segment Sled, Stave Sled that sets like a 5" sine bar and a Band saw sled for cutting Celtic Knot blanks and the whole shebang didn't cost more than 20 bucks. Sure couldn't justify that gouge price. Its really a GOUGE.
 
Dennis Weiner said:
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381.33 or 144.95, regular price, there is no difference to me realitively. Both prices are out of line.

I bought most of my tools 20 years ago when most turning tools were m2 costing between 20-60 dollars. Today the prices in our niche market are absolutely out of control. I find it difficult to offer guidance to newbies.
It is also hard to find value, for example, in a steel rod with a piece of carbide attached costing 135 bucks. Without guidance, a newbie may feel the need to purchase 3 shapes and 3 sizes.

So buyer beware of your unscrupulous Ebay vendors and your friendly woodturning catalogues.
<End Rant>
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I remember when I used to think, and tell my wife, that I was one tool away from greatness... She stopped believing me after a few gouges, she caught on kind of fast...
 
Bill Boehme said:
I hope you feel better now after getting that off your chest, Dennis. Twenty years ago is a long time. :D I was still working and my hobby was flat woodworking. Making round stuff on a lathe wasn't even on my radar. Funny how things evolve.
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I actually do feel better. Back then, I bought a lot of tools cause I loved to buy and collect them. It kept me interested in a hobby I had little or no time for. Retired, I no longer can keep up the collecting. . I now enjoy making a lot of the tools I would have bought. So yes, funny how things evolve.

To be fair to the tool makers, a 60 buck gouge in 1998 using the US gov CPI inflation calculator would be $104 in April 2018. That’s reasonabley close to our marketplace.
 
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