Right, I'm a bit of a newbie by some standards having done the woodworking thing for only about 40 years! Practice doesn't always make perfect!
Now I am having a workshop sort out and in the process have found many old friends, ashamed to say forgotten at the back of a cupboard but fondly remembered as they re-appeared. Nothing special, a Makita hand sander, a Dewalt hand sander, a Bosch router etc etc.
The thing is that they have been forgotten as technology advanced over the may years, and for better or for worse, nearly every one of my tools is now Dewalt XR 18v (for better actually).
Please bear in mind that although my old stuff all works, it is all old and in monetary terms quite worthless, and also very grubby.
I have thought of charity shops, but they don't want it because it's not PAC tested.
Men's shed weren't interested, they had plenty already.
I have given stuff away for free in the past, but without exception the characters that arrive give me the creeps. I hate the way they scan my other stuff looking at what else might be available, often actually asking me if I have anything else or spot something and ask me if I want it? No, not pleasant.
I could polish it all up and stick it back in the cupboard, but ultimately that's going to be grief for someone else.
So what do people do with their old stuff?
Now I am having a workshop sort out and in the process have found many old friends, ashamed to say forgotten at the back of a cupboard but fondly remembered as they re-appeared. Nothing special, a Makita hand sander, a Dewalt hand sander, a Bosch router etc etc.
The thing is that they have been forgotten as technology advanced over the may years, and for better or for worse, nearly every one of my tools is now Dewalt XR 18v (for better actually).
Please bear in mind that although my old stuff all works, it is all old and in monetary terms quite worthless, and also very grubby.
I have thought of charity shops, but they don't want it because it's not PAC tested.
Men's shed weren't interested, they had plenty already.
I have given stuff away for free in the past, but without exception the characters that arrive give me the creeps. I hate the way they scan my other stuff looking at what else might be available, often actually asking me if I have anything else or spot something and ask me if I want it? No, not pleasant.
I could polish it all up and stick it back in the cupboard, but ultimately that's going to be grief for someone else.
So what do people do with their old stuff?
