I would add my ancient Stanley router plane, not used often but priceless
when it's needed and of course my collection of card scrapers. The card
scraper is so damned useful...everything from rough stripping to glue
removal to final finishing of highly figured wood.
Dave
"Bob the Tomato" wrote in message
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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