Selling Some Things

But not my very, very personal ones.

Over the last few decades I've accumulated more woodworking hand tools than perhaps I should, but there again, it's all been for the best of reasons. I have written to books, fifty articles for magazines, and then a thousand blog posts. Factor into that a thousand video episodes and stuff I cannot even remember through that half century, I'm feeling pretty good about the reasoning behind it. I have decided it's high time I started to sell of or sell on the majority of my excess, and will do so via eBay or wherever works best.

The tools I've bought through the years have been to both work with and try out but then too to help me in my research work, use for spares and then too to enhance my writing and filming, and then there are the tools I have used through three decades of hands-on classes for the woodworking schools in the UK and the US. I no longer need such an accumulated mass, so now it's time to do something about it. The expanse of tools goes all the way from Aldi and Lidl chisel sets to premium planes made in North America. I will post lists and individual tools periodically when I feel it's a good time to nudge things out of my way, but when they are gone, they will be gone. You should know this though, I'm not going into the selling tools for a living business.

My personal collection of tools will be included over these coming weeks and months. With hundreds to go, it could take a while. From my personal collection in planes I will be including some rarer versions like screw-stem plough planes, panel-raising planes and over 350 moulding planes. I have to be practical, and I definitely need to free up space.

Through the years I have made sure that my children, now all grown up of course, with the youngest aged 30, have the very best of all the woodworking tools they could ever need. And many an apprentices and close friend in woodworking too, by the by. Remember, my four boys came into the workshop from around age three and up and stayed there until they went to university and chose their occupations. My dad once said, "If you can work with your hands, you will never have a day without paying work." It has proved true. In sixty years of full-time, six-day weeks of furniture making, I have never known a single day without paid work.

I'll keep you posted here and update you on what is going out.