Xmas is coming. HOW MUCH?????????

[Splint Eastwood]

While Christmas shopping in London last week, I couldn't help myself but to pop into The Conran Shop in South Kensington. I saw lots of boys toys, and suddenly remembered, I wasn't there to buy for myself Drat.
But this caught my eye in the window, sorry the chair is in the way.........................

Lets see who can put a price on this????? Answers on a postcard please 8)

 

[ColeyS1]

Looks really good £2450 is my guess

 

[vally bar]

A snip at £9995.00

 

[mtr1]

I've seen this already, and it's an utter rip off considering the actual cost of the items that can be seen even with the Walnut case. But maybe there are a couple of Hotleys hidden in the drawers??

 

[henton49er]

I looked it up, but won't divulge the figure. Guesses so far are too low!!

 

[paulm]

Hmmm, I would guess, say, £12,000 ? :shock: :lol:

Cheers, Paul

 

[adidat]

http://www.benchmarkfurniture.com/furniture/products/toolboxes/the_cabinet_makers_toolbox/

just over a grands worth of tools, how can these rip off merchants exist, you could buy this set of tools sepratley and a hammer combination machine and some tuition for that price!
:evil: :evil:

adidat

 

[Steve Maskery]

Aw come on, everyone has to make a living!

My goodness me, I'm in the wrong game.
S

 

[Splint Eastwood]

Hmmm, I would guess, say, £12,000 ? :shock: :lol:

Cheers, Paul

WOW Paul, thats a brilliant guess :roll: You're absolutely right. Im in the wrong job :shock: (homer)

 

[Chems]

But surely anyone who would buy such a thing would know how to use the tools and therefore be able to knock up the cabinet for a tiny percent of the price? So how do they ever sell any? Is it purely to people who would use it as decoration?

 

[Doug B]

Is it purely to people who would use it as decoration?

Surely not :?:

 

[Chems]

I guess it must be because there are people out there who buy expensive planes just to collect them.

 

[Roughcut]

Perhaps they give you a nice looking carrier bag to take it home in?...........

 

[paulm]

It's hard to see the contents being worth more than say £3k, and the cabinet maybe £1.5 k, so even allowing for the retail mark up of maybe a third, it's still massively, massively overpriced unless I'm missing something ?

Can't help but think that someone paying that price would be a tad disappointed to be getting Narex and AI chisels for the sums of money involved, decent, functional bits of kit though they are !

Cheers, Paul

 

[Racers]

I would rather have the Eams chair, any one fancy working out the price of the tools and subtracting it from the total to find the price of the cabinet?

Pete

 

[AndyT]

I guess it would be bought as a gift rather than by the user. But just in case anyone's reading this and wondering what I'd like, (yea right!) I'd still prefer a second-hand one - like this one, sold at a David Stanley auction in 2004:

With the fancy box being a just-usable bench as well as a cupboard, the £1900 it fetched suddenly looks like good value!

 

[RogerP]

......... any one fancy working out the price of the tools and subtracting it from the total to find the price of the cabinet?
Pete

If anyone has the time an inclination ....

Ashley Iles set of 12 Bevel Edge Chisels
Ashley Iles set of 6 Carving Chisels
Narex set of Mortice Chisels 6mm-16mm

Estwing classic Claw Hammer
Pin Hammer
Sculptors Hardwood Carving Mallet
Benchmark Handmade Bog Oak Mallet

Lie Nielsen No 51/2 Jack Plane
Lie Nielsen No 4 Bronze Smoothing Plane
Lie Nielsen Block Plane
Lie Nielsen Medium Shoulder Plane
Lie Nielsen Spoke Shave Flat
Lie Nielsen Spoke Shave Curved
Lie Nielsen Cabinet Scraper Set
Clifton Burnisher

Lie Nielsen Crosscut TenonSaw
Lie Nielsen Ripcut Tenon Saw
Lie Nielsen Dovetail Saw
Victor Gent Saw
Japanese Dozuki-Me Saw
Coping Saw

Cabinet Screwdriver Set
Marking & Measuring
Japanese Try & Mitre Square
Four Fold Wooden Rule
Spring Calliper
Stanley 64 Rule 150mm, 300mm & 600mm
4 Piece Engineer Squares
Carpenters Pencils
Clifton Bradawl
Sabatier Ebony Marking Knives (Left & Right)
Richard Kell Dovetail Marker
Workshop Heaven Rosewood Combination Gauge
Workshop Heaven Rosewood Cutting Gauge

 

[AndyT]

......... any one fancy working out the price of the tools and subtracting it from the total to find the price of the cabinet?
Pete

If anyone has the time an inclination ....

Ashley Iles set of 12 Bevel Edge Chisels
Ashley Iles set of 6 Carving Chisels
Narex set of Mortice Chisels 6mm-16mm

Estwing classic Claw Hammer
Pin Hammer
Sculptors Hardwood Carving Mallet
Benchmark Handmade Bog Oak Mallet

Lie Nielsen No 51/2 Jack Plane
Lie Nielsen No 4 Bronze Smoothing Plane
Lie Nielsen Block Plane
Lie Nielsen Medium Shoulder Plane
Lie Nielsen Spoke Shave Flat
Lie Nielsen Spoke Shave Curved
Lie Nielsen Cabinet Scraper Set
Clifton Burnisher

Lie Nielsen Crosscut TenonSaw
Lie Nielsen Ripcut Tenon Saw
Lie Nielsen Dovetail Saw
Victor Gent Saw
Japanese Dozuki-Me Saw
Coping Saw

Cabinet Screwdriver Set
Marking & Measuring
Japanese Try & Mitre Square
Four Fold Wooden Rule
Spring Calliper
Stanley 64 Rule 150mm, 300mm & 600mm
4 Piece Engineer Squares
Carpenters Pencils
Clifton Bradawl
Sabatier Ebony Marking Knives (Left & Right)
Richard Kell Dovetail Marker
Workshop Heaven Rosewood Combination Gauge
Workshop Heaven Rosewood Cutting Gauge

Matthew! Paging Matthew!

(Where else you could buy all that lot in one go... ok maybe not the LN planes but most of it?)

 

[kmcleod]

On the other hand, there is always this as an option !

http://www.lie-nielsen.com/?pg=138

 

[Splint Eastwood]

......... any one fancy working out the price of the tools and subtracting it from the total to find the price of the cabinet?
Pete

If anyone has the time an inclination ....

Ashley Iles set of 12 Bevel Edge Chisels
Ashley Iles set of 6 Carving Chisels
Narex set of Mortice Chisels 6mm-16mm

Estwing classic Claw Hammer
Pin Hammer
Sculptors Hardwood Carving Mallet
Benchmark Handmade Bog Oak Mallet

Lie Nielsen No 51/2 Jack Plane
Lie Nielsen No 4 Bronze Smoothing Plane
Lie Nielsen Block Plane
Lie Nielsen Medium Shoulder Plane
Lie Nielsen Spoke Shave Flat
Lie Nielsen Spoke Shave Curved
Lie Nielsen Cabinet Scraper Set
Clifton Burnisher

Lie Nielsen Crosscut TenonSaw
Lie Nielsen Ripcut Tenon Saw
Lie Nielsen Dovetail Saw
Victor Gent Saw
Japanese Dozuki-Me Saw
Coping Saw

Cabinet Screwdriver Set
Marking & Measuring
Japanese Try & Mitre Square
Four Fold Wooden Rule
Spring Calliper
Stanley 64 Rule 150mm, 300mm & 600mm
4 Piece Engineer Squares
Carpenters Pencils
Clifton Bradawl
Sabatier Ebony Marking Knives (Left & Right)
Richard Kell Dovetail Marker
Workshop Heaven Rosewood Combination Gauge
Workshop Heaven Rosewood Cutting Gauge

Wow roger, I don't have to guess who you work for