CALLING SPARKING CHIP

I’m going to have to decline this generous offer.


First off, SWMBO reviews my purchases of tools, well the purchases that she is aware of, and unfortunately the purchase of legacy tools such as an  Avometer or boxwood handled chisels tend to be questioned with comments such as “Well, are you really going to use them?”.


Secondly, I cannot move in my garage at the moment and need to spend a weekend decluttering before considering trying to get anything else in these.


So on this occasion I am going to let someone else have the joy of owning these treasured items, despite having been considered a tool junkie in the past.


One of my purchases that resulted in a severe raising of the eyebrows was a Stanley roofing square, I had a labourer working for me who managed to lose my imperial roofing square that I had had for many years, one evening some years later I was looking on the internet and realised that I could buy a proper Stanley imperial roofing square from a hardware store in the Midwest of America and have it posted to me for a very reasonable rate. About a week later my wife was handed a large L-shaped package wrapped in brown paper with my address on one arm and a line of American postage stamps on the other. The postman said to her that he was considering if he could feed it through our letter box if no one answered his knock on the door.


That purchase still gets commented on, as at that point in my life I hadn’t cut a timber roof for over ten years despite having done it regularly many years ago. To be fair though it is in my van and is a useful general setting out tool.

I’m going to have to decline this generous offer.


First off, SWMBO reviews my purchases of tools, well the purchases that she is aware of, and unfortunately the purchase of legacy tools such as an  Avometer or boxwood handled chisels tend to be questioned with comments such as “Well, are you really going to use them?”.


Secondly, I cannot move in my garage at the moment and need to spend a weekend decluttering before considering trying to get anything else in these.


So on this occasion I am going to let someone else have the joy of owning these treasured items, despite having been considered a tool junkie in the past.


One of my purchases that resulted in a severe raising of the eyebrows was a Stanley roofing square, I had a labourer working for me who managed to lose my imperial roofing square that I had had for many years, one evening some years later I was looking on the internet and realised that I could buy a proper Stanley imperial roofing square from a hardware store in the Midwest of America and have it posted to me for a very reasonable rate. About a week later my wife was handed a large L-shaped package wrapped in brown paper with my address on one arm and a line of American postage stamps on the other. The postman said to her that he was considering if he could feed it through our letter box if no one answered his knock on the door.


That purchase still gets commented on, as at that point in my life I hadn’t cut a timber roof for over ten years despite having done it regularly many years ago. To be fair though it is in my van and is a useful general setting out tool.