Too Many Tools ??..

[mikeGinSC]

I'm in the process of packing up my shop in preparation for moving my shop building. I didn't realize you could put so much cr@p in a 10x16 building! After packing up 5 large boxes with woodcarving and woodworking books and magazines, I started on the tools. I've packed up 5 or 6 18 gal. totes with tools. You can put a lot of hand tools in an 18 gal. tote. I also had several totes and large boxes filled with other books and junk accumulated over the years that is just too good to throw away. You all know what I'm talking about.

Anyway, after moving all these boxes and totes to another storage building, I started looking up in the rafters. Aww jeez...there are more tools left in here Three breast drills and a brace with the last bit I used still chucked up in it. Then there's the wood and templates I'd forgotten about. Rafters are a great place to store stuff out of the way until you need it. I usually forget I have it and buy or make another one. Found two frame saws I'd made a couple of years ago and forgot about. I now realize I also own an old K&E Leroy lettering template set. Looks complete except some of the paper sleeves are a little tattered. I've still got the tools of my trade to move too.

The moral of this story is...You cannot possibly have too many tools or too much junk...until you try to move it.

Mike G. in SC

PS. I still have my carving tools where I can get them. They're the only tools I haven't packed up.

[bigEd_H]

Too many tools? How could that be?!?

[JimPletcher]

To paraphrase the Hot Rodders feeling about chrome,

Some is good, more is better, and too much is never enough!

[carver33]

Sacrilege! There ain't no such thing as too many tools.

[William]

That old Leroy set is a collector now I did many a survey plat with K&E Leroy before going to a Max CADLINER about 20 years ago.

Bill
^V^

[btree50]

There is no such thing as too many tools! At least thats what I keep telling myself and my wife.
JimB

[Ed Redwine]

Remember...."He who dies with the most tools wins!"

[Kenny_S]

Remember he who dies with the most tools, wife will have a blast with the moey they bring!

Or he who dies with the most tools, Won't be using any!

Sorry Ed, I just had to.

[brent]

Originally Posted by carver33

Sacrilege! There ain't no such thing as too many tools.

Well spoken!!~

[brent]

The only other response should be............."MORE POWER". Tim the toolman said it all.