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Keep them all. I guarantee you if you miss one, you'll need it the
next day. I gave my son the tack-hammer that had belonged to my
grandfather, an upholsterer. An antique dealer who saw it had a hard
time letting go of it to hand it back to me. I still keep reaching
for it. I gave my son-in-law the small drill press I'd bought at a
farm auction thiry years ago. At the time I'd been told I'd payed too
much, but I felt not. It had belonged to his grandfather, then his
father. He didn't want it. I got it. It belongs to my S_I_L, and
daughter, and will be passed down again, I hope. Sure, you might not
use one or two, but why take the chance? They really don't make them
like that any more.



Priceless. My son-in-law will get the rest in a very few years as
well.

You are 1000% right. When my uncle passed away a few years back he left
me his tools. Uncle Joe and I were very close, and I loved the man like
a second father. I have upwards of 20 planes, LN and LV among them, but
the old Sargent smoother that he left me is unquestionably my favorite.
There isn't a time I use it that I don't think of him.

Glen