I have a tool bag that's already a bit bloated which I carry onto all jobs and it's got in it a carefully selected 'A-list' of trusted tools that I know intimately and use regularly. For a tool to make it into this bag it would have to bring something really special to the party but once in a while I come across such a tool.... a tool that stands out ....a tool of quality and greatness... a tool that rises above other mere mortal tools and the day it happens is a good day, it's a day I want to share with others and hope they might share their similar days with me.

Don't get me wrong, most of the tools I'm going to feature here are simple, everyday and low tech hand tools, with many of them their greatness doesn't stand out to the untrained eye, it's more of a low key, understated superiority.

I also look forward to posts of tools of your own where you also share why they wowed you.