Santa brought me

[lowell holmes]

A $250 gift card to Lee Valley. Now I get to look around in their web site without guilt.
I just spent an hour looking. I need to think about it. You would think it would not take long,
but past purchases have been impulse driven. I think I will go to the shop and see what I am missing.

[Pat Barry]

Two LV dovetail saws, an antique Stanley 24 inch level, a digital caliper. Merry Christmas!

[Jim Koepke]

Sorry couldn't resist the chance to bring this up again:

On the twelfth day of Christmas my true love gave to me
twelve planes sticking molding, eleven braces turning, ten augers boring, nine gouges carving, eight chisels paring, seven gauges marking, six saws a sawing, FIVE SMOOTHING PLANES, four router bits, three try squares, two egg beater drills and A bright red tool that came from Woodpecker

Merry Christmas to all,

jtk

[Kevin Smira]

Incra miter express and 1000hd miter gauge. Also have a "spot" of money and credit at the big orange store.

[Dale Murray]

I received a printed copy of the email Noel Liogier sent my wife explaining, "I have forged your two rasps", and, "This week, I have to start to hand stitch them".

I think this letter will make receiving them in a few weeks all the better.

[Rob Luter]

A Lie-Nielsen #102 Block Plane and a $75 gift card for Ace Hardware.

[Robert McNaull]

I was spoiled this Christmas, I got the Lee Valley joinery saw set, Narex mortise chisels, and The Essential Woodworker book by Robert Wearing. I also have leftover lee valley gift card money that I think is going towards some PM-VII bench chisels.

Bob

[Jim Koepke]

I was spoiled this Christmas, I got the Lee Valley joinery saw set, Narex mortise chisels, and The Essential Woodworker book by Robert Wearing. I also have leftover lee valley gift card money that I think is going towards some PM-VII bench chisels.

Bob

NEW DUCK!!! :D

jtk

[Brian Holcombe]

You guys may think I've totally lost my mind, but what I really wanted (and santa does deliver!) were Oakley safety glasses. Wow, they're nice and I finally have glasses that are not a nuisance to wear.

[Tim Cooper Louisiana]

I've been using a pair of M frame Oakleys with clear glass as safety glasses for a year now. They are worth it. Unfortunately, I've reached the age where I need reading glasses. I've been looking at some Oakleys, but haven't convinced myself yet.

[Phil Mueller]

Brian, I don't think you've lost your mind at all. Comfortable eye protection that you will actually wear is a must in my book. While I don't remember any story of lost sight while using hand tools, freak accidents do happen all the time. Santa did you right.

In a somewhat related safety gift, I received wood carver's gloves to wear while using a chisel. I find these comfortable and leave me plenty of dexterity and feel. Hopefully will minimize the need for antiseptic, bandaids and stitches. Until the stupidity evolves to better discipline, they are a welcome protection.

[Bill Houghton]

A Buck Brothers chisel that I think is a patternmaker's chisel, found at an estate sale.

[Brian Holcombe]

Thanks gents, I've dodged a few bullets while chopping.

[Robert McNaull]

NEW DUCK!!! :D

jtk

:D I have been saving Christmas and birthday tool money for the last 2 years figuring out what I really need most to be more efficient/proficient with hand tools and filled some gaps where I didn't have the tool (saws and mortise chisels) and was substituting tools that I can't tell if it's lack of skills or just poor tools.

[Andy Nichols]

Hit the jackpot! With gift certificates for some LN offerings that I would not have normally purchased for myself, a LN 51, and a LN 8

The number 8 was out of stock so the anticipation builds--how long is the seemingly unanswerable question.....but
I'm a happy camper.



mos maiorum

[paul cottingham]

I had a friend show up at my house with a King lathe with a reeves drive (variable speed) he asked me to "store" it for him. Thats code for "its basically mine." Its a massive upgrade from what i was using before. Merry christmas to me and my turning buddy!

we are busy refining the rough bowls we already had turned on my old lathe (a Beaver) and roughing new ones. The hardest part was getting a 1"x12 thread adapter for my Oneway.