Look what I found

[Mat D]

Spent yesterday in the workshop having a really good sort out of things I should have got rid of a long time ago ( It was either that or being dragged around the shops with the Wife!)
and in the bottom of a drawer I came across a pack of old ELU  router cutters which have never been used. Thinking back it must be at least 26 years ago when we bought them!

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They are that old that they don't even have the ball bearing guides at the bottom of them!

So I was thinking,  has anyone else come across a long lost purchase and re descovered it recently?
I have to say i can't bring myself to use them, maybe I'll just hang them up in the office as a reminder of the good old days?

Mat.

 

[Kev]

A full Incra fence setup that I purchased for a router table that I was going to build 18~19 years.

 

[fritter63]

A full Incra fence setup that I purchased for a router table that I was going to build 18~19 years.

at first I was shocked, then I remembered that 19 years ago, incra fence was only a $50 plastic jiggy thing, right?

Just today I found (sitting in plain sight on a hanging shelf) a 6"  three sided hook rule from Bridge City Toolworks. I have no recollection of buying it....

 

[Kev]

A full Incra fence setup that I purchased for a router table that I was going to build 18~19 years.

at first I was shocked, then I remembered that 19 years ago, incra fence was only a $50 plastic jiggy thing, right?

Just today I found (sitting in plain sight on a hanging shelf) a 6"  three sided hook rule from Bridge City Toolworks. I have no recollection of buying it....

Nope - full metal high accuracy job - I recall it costing over $800+ in Oz back then.

I'd got hold of the first of the Triton router tables prior and it was rubbish ... Hence I went shopping to make something better ... moments later the first little monster popped out and life got too complicated for many, many years.

(I'll takes some pics when I can - for historical purposes)

I also found a box of two dozen half inch carbitool router bits I'd given to my dad about ten years ago while my sister and I were sorting out his home - completely unused. Some truly awesome profiles.