On Thu, 24 May 2007 07:44:27 GMT, Bob the Tomato
wrote:

Okay. New thread.

What is your favorite "classic" tool in the shop? You can interpret
"classic" to mean any number of things; I am going to interpret it as
meaning "they still make them the same way after 20+ years". But you
can interpret it differently if you like.

Mine would be the Porter Cable 505 half-sheet sander. Love it! It is
a bullet proof design and I don't think it could be improved much if
you tried.

Bob the Tomato

Perhaps not quite what you meant, but I get the warmest glow from
spending 15 mins restoring some "crappy old" chisel I bought for 50c
in a garage sale to a thing of beauty, and scary sharp