Well, there’s some treasure.

I’ve just bought a deceased patternmaker’s tools – two lovely mahogany dovetailed chests containing sets of trays and drawers, packed with a lifetime tradesman’s collection of chisels, planes, turning tools and various marking, scribing and cutting ‘stuff’. The usual junk, of course, but some really great tools. Nothing younger than about 1960 in the whole collection, most of it pre-WW2, I’d guess.

I’ll keep the bulk of it, and the two chests will sit in my shop and get daily use. The long cast steel British-made patternmakers’s chisels with boxwood handles are a real find, and the reason why I bought the whole lot. There’s a lovely set of little round-bottomed wooden planes of a style that I’ve never seen before – not the conventional ’rounds’, but squater and shorter. The irons are British, so I’m assuming the planes are British as well.

However, I’m not posting to brag (and I paid a fair price, so no need to brag), but to ask advice about how to dispose of a set of 10 turning tools also in the collection. I don’t turn, and want to sell these tools. I know about eBay and other on-line auction sites, and also understand that there are specialised tool sites. However, I thought I’d start here. Is there a market for top quality British cast-steel turning tools (round ends, square ends, v-shaped ends, various sizes, hefty beech and boxwood handles)?

Malcolm