Hi, my name is Clovis, and I have an addiction with tools...

[clovis]

I am not really sure of when this addiction started, or why.

If I had to guess, it started as a child. I loved helping Dad with a project as a kid.

I am not into all types of tools. I am not too much into power tools except my Milwaukee Sawzall.

My favorite fix is vintage Craftsman hand tools.

I also like Klein tools....how did I ever live without my side cuts?

Vise Grips, Klein, Crescent, old Stanley, and old Bluegrass tools are some of my favorites.

Rarely, if ever, do I get a fix on Chinese made tools.

I have a cool older Kennedy roll around with an 11 drawer top box and a two drawer intermediate box. I have a old, junky high quality roll around with six drawers, and a vintage 6 drawer Craftsman top box. I also have a Kennedy hip roof box, and about 6 other tools boxes, filled to the brim. Some of these are 3 drawer front boxes.

Yet with all this storage, I have run out of tool box room!!!!!

Sometimes I lay awake at night dreaming about the high quality Craftsman boxes they sell at Sears.

I have very little that are duplicate tools, save for vintage Craftsman sockets.

Tell us a little about your tools....what you love, or collect.

Yes, my name is Clovis, and I have an addiction to nice hand tools.

Clove

[Wingdo]

Oh I wish you lived close by... I have some old, old, old tools that would fit right in with a hobby such as yours! I love 'em, but hate it when a tool is never used... like a toy that is never played with, something just isn't right about it!

[woodsrunner]

My name is woodsrunner and I have the same addiction. My largest supplier is ebay. My favorite searches list includes
Buck bros
Buffalo forge
Champion
Craftsman
D.R. Barton
Dunlap
Goodell Pratt
Great Neck
Millers Falls
North bros
Sargent
Stanley
Witherby

That doesn't include favorite searches based on what a specific tool is called. I have a total of 41 favorite searches. 36 of them are tool related.

I too am running out of space. A 12 drawer craftsman chest sits on top of two internediate boxes. The stand they sit on has shelves filled with hand boxes filled with tools for various specialties such as plumbing. A band saw, bench grinder, miter box, drill press, two reloading presses and two vises sit on shelves above. They are all mounted on plywood bases that allow them to be fastened to my workbench using a common bolt pattern. The benchtop has threaded inserts sunk into it for this purpose. The workbench itself has three large drawers all filled with tools. Then there is a 6'x10' rented storage space that is mostly tools.

I keep telling the wife we need to buy a vacant lot nearby, so I can build a nice workshop. Right now I have to work in the driveway because the garage/shop is too full of stuff. Of course the stuff it's too full of is her stuff and the kids bikes!

[clovis]

Wingdo...time to start using those old tools, unless they are Mint in original box. I could always give them a new home, especially if they are feeling orphaned.

Woodsrunner....LOL....LOL...too funny!!!

I forgot about North Bros!!!! I LOVE my Yankee drills!!!!!!! I have a growing collection of those too. I bet I have 7 or 8 of them, mostly Yankee, but also a Goodell and a M-F. I also have one Buck chisel. My favorite chisel is a 1/78 slick, unmarked.

Clove

[ovendoctor]

you have a taste for quality tools

if ya keep running to wallyworld and buy china crap then you really need to get

right now in the shop I have combined my great grampa's,grandpa's,dad's and my tools [dad passed in mid june]

a lot of old hand tools and power tools

its getting hard to move arround in there [24x32 building]

I am in the process of cleaning out 20+ years of stuff from 2 buisness we ran

[WisJim]

I have a few hand tools, too--I like things for boring holes, so I have a hundred or more braces, 80+ breast drills 40 or 50 hand drills, lots and lots and lots of bits of all kinds, post drills, clamp-to-the-bench kind of hand cranked drills, and maybe even a cordless electric drill around somewhere. Of course, I have planes and saws, too, but only a hundred or more of each of them.

[bqz]

My name is Bob and I can quit anytime I want to...I just don't want to
have a Little bit of ever thing but have been eying some of the bigger stuff.
Just like ever thing else it starts small and then you graduate.....I wonder if craftsman has a rehab center??

[Blu3duk]

I too have that little known addiction to finely crafted tools that time really does not hurt and only makes a person wonder how we transpired to these cheaply made tools everyone ends up with at some point in time [mine came from auctions and pawn shops where there was at least one tool in the mix I wanted]

I do have retired tools that I really dont want to use but once in awhile I know they are right for the job and they get to feel special [tools have feelings too dont they?] like my 1923 Keystone adjustable wrench, semi retired, it travels in my tool box so I can let other enthusiasts and those who are addicted to tools admire it [not to be uppity] and my 1958 8 inch lineman pliers [ya know they used to stamp dates on tools] and my 1925 Jennings folding draw knife is not retired, but does have its own shelf to sit on in the shop [ok I have a couple other tools sitting with it currently to keep it from being lonely]

I have a couple old Park tool boxes that are over filled but not abused, picked up here and there over the years some were neglected and left to sit on a pawn shop shelf waiting to be picked up and made useful again by some one with an addiction to tools and many such are probably left over the world, waiting for a person like those of us who admit to such a penchant of helping keep those tools from being lonely.

William [whose addiction is held in check at the moment by his wife who sez in order to buy more tools something has to be sold first..... like that is gonna happen]

[Wingdo]

[QUOTE=clovis]Wingdo...time to start using those old tools, unless they are Mint in original box. I could always give them a new home, especially if they are feeling orphaned.

Buddy, my body has about cashed in it's last penny pop bottle! I have nobody that would know, or even care to know, what half of them do! I'll dig them all up and you come and get 'em!

Wing

[clovis]

What part of Kentucky?

I live in Indiana, 90 miles from Louisville.

Let me know....I am serious if you are!!!!

I have been needing an excuse to get to Kentucky...I need a vacation, or even a night away!!!!!!

Clove

[woodsrunner]

So, today is my day off. I'm out paying bills and at one point decide to visit The Salvation Army store, to see if they have any pants to wear at work. I wander around and don't find any dress pants my size that meet works dress code. I wander the store and just as I'm about to leave realize they have moved stuff to the area that used to be ladies shoes. A bunch of lamps and appliances is what I find. Then peaking out from behind this really nasty 1970's lamp I see a round wooden handle peeking at me. If you can't read that green tag it says $3.99 and yes it is a Stanley Bailey #4. And the iron is even sharp and ready to go!



Now you want to know what a tool adiction is? When you have to semi retire because of health issues, so you get a part time job in a hardware store! That's why the SA for pants. Dress code says dress pants. Paint mixer and bagged concrete assure they don't stay "dress" for long.

[woodsrunner]

[QUOTE=Wingdo]

Originally Posted by clovis

Wingdo...time to start using those old tools, unless they are Mint in original box. I could always give them a new home, especially if they are feeling orphaned.

Buddy, my body has about cashed in it's last penny pop bottle! I have nobody that would know, or even care to know, what half of them do! I'll dig them all up and you come and get 'em!

Wing

You wouldn't have a hand cranked drill press would you? I've been looking for one of the ones that bench mount.

[clovis]

Woodsrunner,

Nice score!!!!!

A Stanley #4 is partially to blame for this addiction. It was the first plane I got.

You are making me want to get another tool fix!!!!!!!!!

Why can't I find deals like that!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

Clove

[Wingdo]

I haven't forgotten you guys... I'm just not going outside for a while longer. I'll dig around as soon as I can and let you know what I find. A scrap metal collector was out over this past spring, so we'll see what's left in a few more days.

Wing