Another couple of wee bargains from my local 2nd hand store.

[TRITON]

A very nice little gouge last time and this trip I get an old Elwell hand axe. Military issue/1950 and an even nicer Record No077A bullnose/chisel plane.
Princely sum of £35 the pair.

The axe is a good deal as its not a bit of standard rubbish. Well made and wel shaped, and not the original handle, which you can tell as the head has been put on upside down. Which make it a nice wee project to replace the short handle with something more forest axe length, at about 22".

Funny thing was during me buying it at one point im wearing a mask and holding up an axe. Not the usual sight in a shop that instills anything other than fear for the shopkeeper

I'll get some pics up later.

 

[Phil Pascoe]

Funny thing was during me buying it at only point I'm wearing a mask and holding up an axe. Not the usual sight in a shop that instills anything other than fear for the shopkeeper

rather reminded me of my grandmother some decades ago. She was slowly going a bit loopy, and a neighbour rang to tell me he'd seen her wandering up the road with a gallon of petrol and a felling axe. It transpired that she was going to the local garage to buy a gallon of paraffin and to ask if they could grind her axe for her.
(She gave me her felling axe when she was eighty five as she thought she'd have no further need for it.)

 

[Bod]

Just think, 2 years ago, walk into the Bank wearing a face mask, what would have happened?
Now, you get thrown out for not wearing one.

Bod

 

[Stanleymonkey]

I worked at a sports centre. Was dispatched to buy blanks for the starting pistol. (Pre-Dunblane and all the gun restrictions by a couple of years) Boss gave me his bank card and the starters gun to make sure I got the right stuff from a gun shop. Cycled to the bank first. Cashpoint bust so I went inside. Undid my rucksack to get the bank card and the pistol was on top of the bag. So close to a silent alarm being pushed! Eek

 

[TRITON]

Imagine if it had fallen out onto the counter

Complete transaction and exit the bank to find several armed police shouting at you.