The odd story of finding two 1947 Delta Bandsaws
The odd story of finding my two new-old favorite bandsaws…
It’s strange in the best of ways how life works out sometimes. A few months ago I’d built a scale-model 14” Delta, as a way to get to know “my favorite tool I don’t actually own yet”. I’d found one nearby over 3 years ago, being sold at a garage sale by a kind man who was quite ill, who openly told me he was not long for the world and would love to know his Delta ended up with someone who could appreciate it. He also had a rather strange, green antique drill press he talked endlessly about, which I mention here for a reason. His $500 asking-price on the Delta quickly became “$250, only if it’s for you”, and I would’ve gladly given him that if I didn’t happen to be broke at that moment. We parted ways and I’d planned to go back for it as soon as I could make it work.
Life happened, weeks became months, and by the time I made it back his way, he was no longer and the estate had been sold. Fast forward to just recently, when I saw a familiar strange, green antique drill press on Marketplace (a Canedy-Otto, for anyone curious), and message the seller, on the off-chance it's the same one... and the further off-chance he also ended up with the Delta. It was, and he did.
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