What would YOU do if?

[dicktimber]

Your next door neighbor, who isn't a woodie or DIY sort of guy, but has a pint with you down the pub, and the wifes get on well, came round and asked to borrow your chisels and a plane, to do some DIY or fit a door?

:evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil:

Mike

 

[TrimTheKing]

I might lend him my crappy ALDI chisels and a cheap stanley plane I have, but definitely not the good stuff, no matter how good a mate.

Hell, I won't even lend my dad my good stuff! Seriously! :lol:

Cheers

Mark

 

[wizer]

if you're close enough to have a pint with then I'd tell him the truth, that your tools cost a lot of money and are dear to you. He can use them in your workshop under your supervision or he can buy himself a set.

 

[PeterBassett]

Ask him for a go on his wife "Cus it's the same thing" :lol: :lol:

 

[dicktimber]

wizer,
shame on you and it being easter and all!!!!

After I sorted out an OLD chisel......he asked me what he should hit it with.
So I gave him my Lee nielson No5 plane....he's not much into DIY at all and I couldn't find my bloo...y mallet, so I thought.....,what the heck it's Easter?'
what does it matter, his wife is really nice, and he does have a way with words, and those cigarettes he smokes make you forget all your troubles during this recession.

He'll be returning them this evening. They should be alright, shouldn't they?

Mike

 

[Woodmagnet]

I would tell him the truth, "I never lend my tools
out because i spent a lot of money them but I
will come round and help you with the job if you
don't mind" :wink:

 

[9fingers]

I lent my mitre saw to the guy next door for a minor trimming job a while back.

The guy is a qualified GP and now a Prof at Southampton Uni so you would think reasonably smart but he brought it back having sawn through the power lead! Maybe being a medic he feels invincible
He now knows he is not up to DIY, so now I do little jobs for him and get paid in nice wine! Suits me and the saw did not take long to repair.

Bob

 

[ByronBlack]

I have a simple rule when it comes to my tools: Never lend them to anyone other than close family who realise if they brake it, they pay for it.

I would (and have done) simply tell him you don't have any chisels as you lent them to someone else and never got them back

 

[FogggyTown]

Depends on the size of the deposit he's willing to leave until he returns them.

 

[user 5053]

I'd tell him to stop wasting his money down the pub and buy some tools himself.

 

[Night Train]

The only tools I lend out are specialist tools to my students under supervision. It gives them a chance to try of odd tools before committing to buy.

If asked by a 'neighbour' I will tell them how much the tool cost and how precious it is to me and my ability to work.
I will then offer to help them do the job, if we get on well enough, using mostly their own tools.

I did have a friend who asked to borrow a chisel. I showed him how sharp it was and that was enough to scare him off asking again.

 

[OPJ]

Chisels wouldn't be a problem for me as I try to keep a 'cheap set' spare for all first and second fix work anyway. But, asking to borrow a plane... Well, that would rifle a few feathers on this site, wouldn't it!! :shock: :wink:

 

[chippy1970]

I hate it when someone asks to borrow something from me I nearly always get caught when I am not expecting it and cannot think of an excuse not to lend them out. Then I moan about it for the next few hours :lol: I should just be blunt and say no.

I must say though I never lend any of my expensive tools out.

 

[wizer]

I'm very good at saying no. Ask my missus

 

[woodbloke]

I think I'd only lend tools to someone I trust implicitly, such as certain very good friends on this forum. Neighbours...no, simple - Rob

 

[MikeG.]

I think "can I borrow your tools?" is normally code for "can you come and do this job for me please?"......and I would rather do the job than lend the tools.

I lent my neighbour two centre punches at the weekend, thinking that nothing could go wrong there.......and, yep, he brought around 2 new ones in their packets a couple of days later having trashed both of mine.

Go and hang the man's door for him....everyone will benefit!!

Mike

 

[dexter]

`Never lend your tools to anyone, especially ----ing plumbers` was what I was told when I was an apprentice.

Dex

 

[TrimTheKing]

How does the old saying go, 'Ne'er a borrower, nor a lender be.'.

I don't generally live my life by this as I'm a generous person in general, but at the same time I am fastidious in how I look after my belongings regardless of their monetary value. It upsets me when others do not value items at the same level that I do, particularly when the item belongs to me, so after being bitten a few times I would rather say no and explain why than face the confrontation that would follow should someone bring something of mine back in anything other than the condition in which it was lent.

Grumpy? Me? Never

Cheers

Mark

 

[dicktimber]

So are you all saying the WAR YEARS meant nothing?

Remember Aunt Doris lending your Mum her darning needle, so you went to school in socks that your big toe didn't peep out of the end.Or your Dad borrowing that metal shoe thingie with like three sets of flat feet on it to put a new sole on your school shoes, or even borrowing next doors jam pan?......
Mind you my mate wanted to borrow my lambourginnnnnnnie last week.....but I told him to catch the bus!

And consider this.....
There are people who buy expensive, and I mean expensive woodworking tools and never use them...they make display cabinets for them and have them lacquered, with their serial numbers kept logged in books.

No they aren't train spotters...woodies.....!!!
I know it's unbelievable.....

So anyone reconsidering lending a chisel to the neighbor????

Mike

I just love you lot!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Digit]

All my neighbours are elderly ladies! :lol:

Roy.