Confessions Of a Tool Addict

lol…Hello…my name is Don and I am a tool addict..next.

-- Don S.E. OK

Is there any one out there?

-- Drink once, cut twice. New website up.... lazylarrywoodworks.com.au

Jing’s laddie join the club. I too am addicted .l O L Alistair

-- excuse my typing as I have a form of parkinsons disease

I luv a good true confessions of a tool addict. I just bought a new Grex pinner off a dealer getting out of the business. Sweet deal. I try to limit my small purchases (say less than $100 to once a month), medium purchase say $100 to $500 to every 3 to 6 months (more like 6 months), and larger purchases (for me say $750 to $1,500) to once a year, and maybe 18 months. Otherwise I would have, could have spent $10,000 this year alone! I look at it this way, if you buy a good quality used tool at a good price, you can always sell it for 80% of what you paid. Kinda like a long term tool rental. Like a friend says, I drink, I fall down, what’s the problem.

-- david roberts, houston area, "A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but that has never been a problem for me."

If i go a month without spending $500 on tools, it’s because I’m fishing(my other addiction)and that’s no cheaper.

-- Junior -Quality is never an accident-it is the reward for the effort involved.

I still buy tools and occasionally machines too. when I see something I like I sell my older machine and add to the price and upgrade, but now I am settling out a bit and have most of what I need plus a few duiplicates too sometimes .Does it stop me from still getting this and that from time to time” no no no , it does not ” Buying and setting up/altering your shop to accomodate new machines /tools, is for me half the fun . Otherwise it would be everything in one box ,or a machine with everything attached like a swiss penknife which requires a virtual rebuild everytime you want to change it over to do the next part of the project.The answer to that idea is a sterling ” no no no ” It’s much better over a life time if required to buy a tool for each project that’s the way of the real toolaholic. LOL Alistair

-- excuse my typing as I have a form of parkinsons disease

Kent, I am a wood scrap addict. I also discovered I am a sanding addict. I think a tools addict is probably an upgraded addiction for me.

I think that tool addict affliction may be covered under ” Obamacare” unless the government decides your too old!
If your to old (59) you should suffer with the pain or die because the elderly need to quit being selfish and not use up all the health-care! Sorry for the political rant!
I’m spanky and I am a tool addict also!

-- spanky46 -- Never enough clamps...Never enough tools...Never enough time.

I don’t have time to read this… I’m too busy tool shopping… she shops, I shop… just in different departments and stores. Like mtkate… I went from wood scrap collecting to sanding addiction… now the big boy tools…
I may have to sell my boat… I had to join a support group… that backfired… Mason-Dixon Woodworkers just encouraged me.

-- Al H. - small shop, small projects...

aww….it ain’t no addiction…I can quit anytime I want

-- Gary, DeKalb Texas

i’m not really a tool addict ,
i’m a bigger shop addict !

-- david ,new mexico ,allheart

Does calling the local tool shop a toy shop count LOL…........ i think i’m addicted well my wife says i am LOL….........

Andy

-- cut it saw it scrap it

I refuse to believe I’m a tool addict.
Tools are the ability to do a job I could not otherwise do.
The more tools I have, the more ability I have.
You are only a tool addict if the PURSUIT of tools takes precedent over the USE of tools! Until I spend a week (or a day) without using my tools, then maybe I’ll join Toolaholics Anonymous. That is, if I don’t get distracted by a project on the way…

-- You know.... I think that old wood needs to be furniture.

Hello my name is Blkcherry and I a tool addict…and its only getting worst. BeachedBones you’re living in denial…LOL…what a way to go!!!....Blkcherry

I am curious how I can write off tools as business expenses… hmmm… looks for catalog

-- San Diego, CA US Navy

This is really an interesting story! But all through it, just sounds you are very HAPPY! And that is the most important thing!
I am just curious, does your wife read your blog???

-- Junji Sugita from Japan, http://tetra.blog12.fc2.com/

From another tool addict, thanks for sharing.

-- Grumpy - "Always look on the bright side of life"- Monty Python

Hey Kent great blog
I’m not an addict even though I asked my wife if we could empty the house to put tools in.

-- Jim from Heirloom Woodshop, custom furniture ,maker, woodworking school, heirloomwoodshop.com

The only thing that I know that works is get layoff and don’t work for awhile, but then it only slows it down.

-- Woodisit

I would like to know where a good place to sell a nice collection of wonderful old woodworking tools is! I have recently acquired several tools, all are clean and in good to excellent vintage/antique condition. I have pictures of them. If you have any suggestions, please email me at fuzzyparker@yahoo.com.
Thanks,
Sara

-- sara, Los Angeles, California

haha… how appropriate, someone would try and sell tools to a bunch of old tool addicts.

Now, if im correct, shouldn’t we get the first one from you for free tiglet? you know, to make sure it’s good stuff :P

-- San Diego, CA US Navy

No, dear, you cannot empty the house to put tools in… not, no, never! Really, I mean it! Seriously, no!

-- annie

A1jim…................your NOT a tool addict? Bull….............who has all them routers?

I’ll admit it….......I’m a tool and scrap wood addict. There.Now you have it.

-- Jerry--A man can never have enough tools or clamps

i checked it out guys ,
she does have a couple of old wooden planes .
and lots of jewelry .

-- david ,new mexico ,allheart

That’s not even the half of it, David. I have not even photographed the last batch I got!
I will get busy and take pics and show you what else I have….I’m busy waiting for the sunset having a coldie right now…..hangin’ down on our 1959 Chinese Junk from HongKong (now THIS is a woodworking project! ha ha) in Marina del Rey.
I am open for any offers, and would love to just have someone make me a deal on the whole batch.

-- sara, Los Angeles, California

If you go to my online shop, skip all the girly stuff and click on “Guy Stuff and Fishing” on the upper right hand side…........

-- sara, Los Angeles, California

man i understand your pain those tiny little block planes i never new i needed one till my boss gave me one now i go out of my way to figure out ways to use ( as a cabinet maker in australi there is now wood in kitchen cupbouards anymore) so i now use it as a glue scraper i use it to flush mdf, trim laminate (even though they have little routers to do this job) and i got to love this litle plane so much i figured i had to by one for home to keep my stanley # 3, 5 and 7 company

so i blame them block pains i mean planes for all my anguish although i still finde every excuse possible to lovingly hold and carress them

Yes ill come out of the closset I AM A TOOL ADDICT

Hooky (from down under)

-- Happiness is a way of travel , not a destination (Roy Goodman)

Jerry (cabinetmaster)...you beat me to it…..I was about to jump ALL OVER Jim…..we have to watch him and help him come to grips with his addiction….I mean come on man…you have fifty routers, and then say “I am not a addict”...tsk tsk. You need some serious intervention my friend.

Jerry…I say you and I just go to Jim’s shop and help him stop “COLD TURKEY”...I bring my truck (and trailer) you bring yours….and we help him by just hauling away that terrible addiction (all of those tools he is so addicted to) all at one time, give him a cold beer to help with the withdraws he will have, a good slap on the back…and send him on his way !!!!...Believe me…in time, he will thank us.

-- Don S.E. OK

My wife, whom I call SWBMT (She Who Buys Me Tools), has called my bluff, trumped my ace, settled my hash.
I used to tease her, saying, “Honey, I wish I COULD make that for you, but I don’t have a _ (fill in the blank with a tool name)”.
She then proceded, over a few years to buy me many exotic tools, and in doing so, became my Enabler, my Pusher, if you please.
I’m ashamed of my weakness, but I can’t stop.
Even less expensive tools sing the siren’s song. I just dialed in a jig for doing dovetail joinery with a router. Of course, I had to have yet another router for that (I’m glad to say, I’m not as router addicted as A1Jim).
But, please don’t intervene! I’ll find a way to live with this affliction. Perhaps, to be happy in it.
Don’t pity me.
Don’t pity me.
(Hmmmmmm. Sounds like a song, doesn’t it?)

All the best to all you tool-junkies out there!
Don

-- If a man says something in the forest and there's no woman to hear it, is he still wrong?

OK Don and Jerry I’m hiring a security guy right away and activating the electrified shop door handle too.
I guy has a couple routers and right away you think he needs help. This is way to emotional I need to visit my nearest tool store to calm down.

-- Jim from Heirloom Woodshop, custom furniture ,maker, woodworking school, heirloomwoodshop.com

I like the electrified shop door handle idea…I don’t know if they make shock collars big enough to go around a man’s neck. If anyone knows where to get one, my husband could use one.

-- sara, Los Angeles, California

LOL….Ok Jim….we will wait and see if you can handle this on your own !!! But be warned….we are watching !!!

-- Don S.E. OK

Post of the month:

Patron said, checked it out guys , she does have a couple of old wooden planes . and lots of jewelry .

Howls

-- david roberts, houston area, "A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but that has never been a problem for me."

What’s realy criminal is that, I have introduced my son “who is a doctor ” to tools and now he has a garage full of them so is he addicted too like me ? I guess so ! What have I done ? Poor boy now he’s in for a lifetime of buying. lucky devil LOLAlistair

-- excuse my typing as I have a form of parkinsons disease

Wow! I had no idea this disease was so wide spread. I know there’s no cure,———but who cares.

tiglet.. Shame on you! Kinda of easy pickins, trying to sell tools to these poor guys as they deal with this horrible addiction. That would be like selling dope at a crack house.

-- Kent Shepherd * The goal is-----More Tools!

Dope what’s that Kent? I’ve led a sheltered lifeLOL don’t you mean dope for gluing wood balsa etc LOL Alistair

-- excuse my typing as I have a form of parkinsons disease

Kent, I guess we need to start our own “TA” meetings to combat this sickness.

-- Don S.E. OK

Don K—Great idea. We can have the meetings at my ”Tool Store” (gee, and I got on to tiglet)

-- Kent Shepherd * The goal is-----More Tools!

Don K—Great idea. We can have the meetings at my ”Tool Store” (gee, and I got on to tiglet)

LOL…no kidding you may be accused of being a pusher !!!

(Figured I better add a “K” to my name since we now have about 4 “Don’s” now)

-- Don S.E. OK

I’m sure the local woodcraft store will lend out their class room for our TA meetings and for attending you’ll get a 10 percent off coupon. Maybe we could get Lee Valley and Lie Nielsen to provide refreshments and free shipping coupons. Hey I think this could work let me know what you addicts think….Blkcherry

blackcherry,
I like the way you think !!!! Get the pushers to provide the refreshments…sounds like a plan to me !!!

-- Don S.E. OK

Cookies, anyone!!!

New hotline for tool addicts

1-800-BUY-TOOL——(just kidding)

-- Kent Shepherd * The goal is-----More Tools!

I have a better Idea buy tools and send them to BUY TOOLS FOR JIM.COM OR JUST MAIL THEM TO PO BOX GIM ME TOOLS. But wait Kent can have a contest to see who can send Jim the most tools yah that’s the ticket yah. Sorry I’ve got to go take my anti tool meds and calm down. Remember I’m not a addict really I’m not.

-- Jim from Heirloom Woodshop, custom furniture ,maker, woodworking school, heirloomwoodshop.com

Yeah, right!

Me too.

No, really I’m not.

Not much anyway!

-- If a man says something in the forest and there's no woman to hear it, is he still wrong?

Jim, Get control man! ——-You’re in denial, and it’s got to stop. You desperately need intervention. How about if I come get all of your tools so you won’t be right in the middle of so much temptation.

Your “Friend”
Kent

-- Kent Shepherd * The goal is-----More Tools!

NO NO NO Kent !!!!!, I said I would help him by taking away his temptations. I can’t let you risk the temptation yourself…it may knock you off the wagon….I will take the risk and take away all those terrible tools and fight off the temptation myself. Of course I can’t let them fall into disrepair…so I will use them and keep them in working order until Jim comes to terms with his addiction.

-- Don S.E. OK

Wow Don!———- What a guy!!!——I’m deeply touched by your compassion
There should be more people in the world like you.

-- Kent Shepherd * The goal is-----More Tools!

LOL !!!

-- Don S.E. OK

Ha HA HA ha ha ha hah ah ah ah

-- If a man says something in the forest and there's no woman to hear it, is he still wrong?

Happy to help you get on the wagon – just have those family purchases sent my way and I’ll care for them in your stead… ;-0

-- Its never too late to have a happy childhood. But the second one is up to you and no one else.

In order to help you leave your life of sin, I will come load up all of your tools this weekend. At least I have a key to your shop, that way you won’t need to be there. That should help spare you the agony of watching your “precious” go to a better home.

I shall go change the lock now!

-- Kent Shepherd * The goal is-----More Tools!

It’s for your own good. Someday you will thank me for helping you overcome your problem!