Acquired 2 sanders and a large natural coticule at an unadvertised estate sale.

This weekend while talking to a friend, I asked him if he knew of anyone that may have a belt sander or any sharpening stones for sale.

He said he knew of a guy that was selling off the items in his fathers garage and to go there right then as he was only going to be there for a little while.

When I pulled up there was a larger truck there and I asked if this was an estate sale? The man replied, No not exactly, are you looking for something in particular? I took a quick gander and said that I would be interested in the belt sander/disk sander combo(Belsaw), the 1" belt sander grinder(also a Belsaw) and any sharpening stones he may have.

Well after we struck a deal on the sanders he remembered a sharpening stone and returned with this rock. I am very excited to have found this one because I really love the shaves I get off of the coticules that I own.

Sorry no pics of the sanders yet.

The coticule measures 10 x 2 1/8 x 1, A natural combo. It came in a wood box that did not have any markings on it. The stone next to it is a vintage glued coticule 6 x 1 3/8.

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I need to start finding better Estate sales...geesh thats HUGE.

Good Gravy. Not only is that thing humongous surface-wise, it's thick...really thick.

Here's an idea: cut a hole in the middle of it for a sink, put it in your kitchen, and you'd have a kitchen countertop you could hone your knives on!

Actually, you'd have a kitchen countertop you could hone windmill blades on.

Very nice score. Congratulations!