Myself, I love taking an old rusty tool that hasn’t seen light in fifty years and bringing it back to life. That’s a happy tool when it is placed to wood again!
Nowadays I can afford better tools and when buying something new, I aim for the best I can afford, but on the other hand, I have quite a few tools still that I bought on a limited budget twenty years ago that still find use. Not always of course, but often if you treat a cheap tool as if it were the best, you’d be surprised what you can get out of it.
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