Thread: The start of my tool collecting and restoring

Originally Posted by Nads

Here is the start of my tool collecting, most are off Ebay and all need work.
Is there such a thing as having too many brace bits? hehehe

Not if you are boringgeoff

Whether they are of any use is another question.

[QUOTE=Nads;1680098]Here is the start of my tool collecting, most are off Ebay and all need work.Is there such a thing as having too many brace bits? hehehe[/QUOTE

]Call me old fashioned and perhaps a tad straight laced but why are you taking these tools to bed with you, it seems a little forward to me. Like I've heard of "tool love" but never really been involved. Mainly because of a paucity of imagination and oppotunity more than lack need. I can only guess at what one would get up to with these tools. The augers and bitts suggest a bracing session although perhaps boring with so many of them and ratchets always scare me. Likewise a number 55 seems about 14 cutters short of a real good time. I think I see an application for the turnscrews. The moulding planes are have me at a blank although I could be convinced to get in the groove. The eggbeaters are interesting too. . Anyway good luck with the "collecting" and keep them warm and cosy.

You are building a good collection there! I too have fallen victim to collecting tools and fixing then up, I have been doing a few planes and chisels. More to use them rather then just for display them.

Keep collecting and have fun!

You have been busy.
I'm not seeing a collection of chisels in that lot.

Peter

The reason I have them in a bedroom is not a kinky tool fetish, its the spare room and the wife doesn't care.
My shed is too small for anything else.
I was thinking of a chisel collection also, but I want to use these tools not just look at how pretty they are.
So I would invest in a new set of chisels on day

Hi Nads,
Was the hehehe at the end of your post a maniacal cackle? If the answer is no, then you haven't got anywhere enough bits, you need thousands more, catagorise them by brand,type,fine/coarse lead screw, sell all your other tools so that you can buy more bits, subscribe to "Bits Weekly" and join a tool club near you. Mount displays at shows and fairs (Perth Wood Show, on right now Claremont Show Grounds, come and say "G'day" to the HTPS WA guys) and BORE people senseless with long winded dissertations on the virtues/faults of any given type of BIT.
Finally, regardless of what envious people like Doggie might say, it is quite alright to take your bits to bed (you might even get a BIT on the side).

Hehehe.................Geoff.

Here is my collection of 'fixeruppers'

Tools