I Have no Idea about the Epstein Files

[MineralMan]

However I have a large assortment of Nicholson Bastard Files in the fourth drawer of my toolbox.

[Cirsium]

1. I knew it!

I always thought that Nicholson guy was a bastard! Now you have the files to prove it!

[MineralMan]

4. Those files will cost you, though...

[usonian]

2. Been released already

[MineralMan]

3. LOL! Mine are well-used, though so I can let them go for less money.

[usonian]

5. Going through my excess right now. I'm at the point where it's not that "I might need this some day". It's more like

"Why the hell would I want to do such a thing any more"

I have scaled back my woodworking ambitions to the thought of creating "Little Libraries", which I can do with minimal equipment.

And I also have hundreds of pounds of books to fill them. I found electronic versions of just about every book I bought in umptey-ump years.

Sounds like you wouldn't need them (a lot are woodworking and landscaping) and at 76, those are not so appealing any more, especially living solo.

Looking to make things (and life) better.

[MineralMan]

6. I left all of my stationary woodworking equipment in California

when we moved to Minnesota. The buyer of our house expressed an interest in them, so I bundled everything into the sale price and just walked away. Mind you, it was a comprehensive shop. You could do virtually anything in it. I had stopped doing that sort of thing a few years earlier, so it was no loss to me not to bring it to MN. I had no shop at our new home, so...

I did take my shop hand tool rolling toolbox. All of my automobile tools, plus a lot of other hand tools.

[usonian]

7. I'm in the Sierra Foothills. I have a small 8X15 shop that was already here when I bought the place. (it was empty)

A few things are always desirable. The DeWalt portable table saw is, well, portable (and has the best damn cut width adjustment) and a few others. (small).

Ten years of living here gives me a solid idea of what I actually needed all this time.

Of course, about zero CA homes have basements or attics, so the garage becomes a workshop, and I did that for many years, though my (now ex) wife never liked that at all.

If I could afford a home closer to civilization than the woods, it would have a two car garage, and I'd take the lot with me.

[MineralMan]

8. I designed and wrote DIY projects for

magazines like Popular Mechanics and Family Handyman. One of those projects was a 10'x12' indoor/outdoor workshop. The cover story for Family Handyman in the 1980s. I also did power tool reviews. So I had a surplus of shop tools. In 1987, though, I switched to writing about PCs and software, and quit doing DIY stuff.

Other than my own projects, I wasn't using all that equipment any more. I donated most of it to local schools, and just kept my favorites. By the time we moved to MN, I just wasn't using them.

Now, I'm 80 years old. I don't do any of that at all any more. It was very interesting, though.