re: tool collecting

I’m lucky in that I work a bit for a charity that sends refurbished (Note, not restored) tools to craftsmen in Africa. The tools are all donated and sometimes we get stuff in that is either awesome, aged and valuable or just plain strange. We often have competitions to see who can guess what a weirdly widget may have been used for. Quite often we never find out until we take it to a fair for sale. Invariably someone comes along and says,“Wow, I haven’t seen one of these since I worked….”

I have to admit if I had more money and more space I’d have less money and no space.