Thread: Collecting tools

Of course, you realise you've broken protocol and used the 'C' word .

Acceptable alternatives are "accumulate", "gather", "arsenal" etc.

Cheers, Vann.

Vann, what about charitable - rescuing those poor tools from people who obviously don't deserve to have them?
cheers,
Jim

Originally Posted by chook

..... But there is a "pleasure of ownership" to. A pleasure in knowing that I have converted some of my long work hours into beautifully made and useful items that give me pleasure just to look at and that will serve me and my descendents for many years to come.

Onya chook!

Oh yea, you got it bad!
Regards
John

The amount of time I actually spend in the workshop these days, I sometimes wonder if I shouldn't just call myself a tool collector...

Tool guardian, preserving the hardware of yesteryear for future generations....

Is there no counter to such words.

Where are the other halves, why are they not members of these forums to voice their opinons? Here is a topic that should be heated white hot with diverse conversation.


And then the moderators will come along to clean up and close the thread.

I'd love to see a pic of your cabinet !!

Like you, I really enjoy using quality tools. I don't get much time in the shop, but when I do I don't want to spend most of my time trying to set up tools that are not accurate, or produce less than quality results. Not to mention they are nice to look at !

Andy

"Nyaaaaaa. You've seen one saw, you've seen 'em all."


... ... Wash your mouth out!

It's very cool to acquire something amazing that others have looked after before you,
... but it is also good taking something neglected and returning it to a working condition.


Paul

Collector ... me...naaaah

Originally Posted by groeneaj

I'd love to see a pic of your cabinet !!

Like you, I really enjoy using quality tools. I don't get much time in the shop, but when I do I don't want to spend most of my time trying to set up tools that are not accurate, or produce less than quality results. Not to mention they are nice to look at !

Andy

For more than 30 years I have had a love of tools. I can remember the afternoon that it began. I needed a simple shelf to store a few computer disks and I cut and nailed (nailed!) a few bits of MDF together. I enjoyed it so much that I became addicted to cutting timber. Eventually I went to TAFE and obtained the qualifications to teach manual arts to high school students, which I did for a long time. What started with about 4 small pieces of MDF finished up with making whole buildings and houses full of furniture. But all the while my own personal tool collection was restricted by one small but difficult problem-money. We had children who insisted upon wearing clothes and eating food. But in recent years my family has grown up and now have families of their own. So that now I can finally afford to make regular purchases of high quality tools and machinery. But the downside is that now in my late 50's I have a job, which while good in itself, takes such vast amounts of time, that like you I do not get nearly as much time in my workshop as would like. So that now when my own personal workshop is in an excellent condition and getting better by the week, I find I have less time that ever to actually be in it.

Go figure that out.

Originally Posted by Colin62

The amount of time I actually spend in the workshop these days, I sometimes wonder if I shouldn't just call myself a tool collector...

What he said

Cheers, Vann.

Originally Posted by chook

...... But the downside is that now in my late 50's I have a job, which while good in itself, takes such vast amounts of time, that like you I do not get nearly as much time in my workshop as would like. So that now when my own personal workshop is in an excellent condition and getting better by the week, I find I have less time that ever to actually be in it.

Go figure that out.

Cheer up Chook - you should be able to chuck it in in a few more years, unless they keep jacking up the age when you can collect your super! I made sure I bought a couple of 'must-haves', like a decent new tablesaw, in my last couple of years of paid employment, and every time I use it I am ever so glad I did, so look on these last few years as preparing for the best sabbatical ever.....

Cheers,

Originally Posted by IanW

I made sure I bought a couple of 'must-haves', like a decent new tablesaw, in my last couple of years of paid employment, and every time I use it I am ever so glad I did, so look on these last few years as preparing for the best sabbatical ever.....

Cheers,

You have that in spades Ian as do those of us with more time on our hands.

Who said tool collecting became an insidious mind bending issue we love it that's why we do it to have that feel of a tool in your hands to challenge one aspect of tool use as opposed to another of the same ilk ...as in planes for example!

Sometimes it's that must have approach whether a unique handmade or one to flesh out a need in the shop to make that task all that more enjoyable but whatever the need it can be that desire to have as full a functioning shop as one can afford.

Cheers