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[PedalsMcgrew]

Hi fellas,

Weird story, the postie knocked on the door this morning and handed me a large box full of woodworking tools. Old ones! VERY old ones. The local wheelwrights has closed down and they were chucking out loads of tools so he picked up a box of them and gave them to me.

In the box I found 5 of these....





3 different sizes, the others are bigger than this one pictured. I am assuming that these are spoke shaves but I know nothing! My question is are these worth anything? They're in good nick but the blades would need sorting on them (if that's possible?) Also found a very heavy block plane (missing it's blade) that seems like a nice thing.

Have I been given a box of useless tat (as I suspect) or do these have any use/value? I want to double check before I chuck them!

[Ayrtek Cricket]

old spokeshave....I have one similar that does a very good job taking off excess wood

[PedalsMcgrew]

Can they be 'refurbed'?

Actually, scrub that question.....I don't care! Are they worth anything? 

Hmmmm.........having looked on eBay it would seem the answer is no.................more tat for the shed then.

[johnnyw]

Very easy to refurb the spokeshaves. Take the blade out by gently tapping the bits that stick out the back with a hammer. You can then sharpen the blade and sand the wood down and it will look like new again.