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Pal is 60 at the weekend and I was going to buy a wee gift. He retired this week and like a bit of gardening and is going to have a go at building a camper.
So what low cost gift that he'd never buy himself but becomes essential do you suggest?
C&H are off limits.
Tools for building the camper?
Not the big things, all the little things you never bother buying. Small clamps, the little screw drivers you get in Christmas Crackers but proper ones, a good wire cutter/stripper, a box of 100 Stanley knife blades etc etc
What does low cost mean in your thinking roughly?
What does low cost mean in your thinking roughly?
Beat me to it. "Low cost" is relative.
I'd be chuffed to bits with a set of Wera allen keys, they're about thirty quid.
Gold option = Niwaki Golden Spade
Silver option = Wera Tool Check Plus
Bronze option = Bronze Hand Trowel
Beat me to it. “Low cost” is relative.
I’d be chuffed to bits with a set of Wera allen keys, they’re about thirty quid.
Yeah, I was feeling flush the year before last, and my best mate is really into his cooking, but I noticed he has a really ratty set of kitchen knives so I found a £40 AUS10 japanese steel utility /small chefs) knife...
He's still over the moon with it, uses it every day and has learned how to sharpen it...so that was money well spent!
Set of quality mixed length ratchet straps.
Needed for a million jobs building a camper and collecting stuff to build said camper.
I'd be well happy with that as gift...
He’s still over the moon with it, uses it every day and has learned how to sharpen it…so that was money well spent!
It's funny sometimes. My leaving gift on departing from my first Tech job in the 1990s was a Swiss Army Knife. I thought "that's a nice idea but I'll probably never used it." It then got used almost daily for the subsequent 25 years or so until it went missing one day (I strongly suspect that someone lifted it after I left it lying around at work).
C&H are off limits.
Spice and a dvd of Womb Raider then.
You probably wanted cheaper than this, but it would probably become his most-used tool if he's not got one already.
86 02 250 | Knipex Plier Wrench, 250 mm Overall, Angled, Straight Tip, 52mm Jaw | RS (rs-online.com)
I nice little set of garden snips.
Folding.
Wander round see something you fancy *snip* cutting taken, happy memory of gift received.
Edit: forget the folding... https://workshopheaven.com/nigiri-japanese-snips-carbon-steel/ plus a little leather sheath made by yourself.
Personally I don't think knipex and stuff would impress me as a gift. If I needed knipex I would just buy them, same with Allen keys. Like cougars example it's the gift you don't know you need that constantly reminds you of the point in ime that gets my heart all a flutter.
Niwaki (referred to above); Greenwood direct; Wolf Garten handle with one tool - he can then buy more interchangeable tools.
Wolf Garten handle with one tool – he can then buy more interchangeable tools.
That's actually a good shout. I got the scarifying rake as at the time it was the cheapest t scariest scarifier I could find. It's a serious bit of quality. Now I have a couple of exrat tool heads and not a pile of tangled tools.
How about a nice classy tee-shirt, the ladies will swarm him like flies to a ****
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