By Gareth Branwyn, MAKE – November 17, 2010 at 06:30PM
Image from “Knives & Multitools” section of Make: Ultimate Workshop and Tool Guide 2011
I don’t know about you, but I have an interest in tools that borders on the unnatural. I collect tools I rarely even use. If I gathered up all of the screwdrivers I own, for instance, it’d probably prove an alarming display. As I’ve commented here before, there’s something aspirational, hopeful, about tools, and acquiring them.Tools at least draw you a few inches closer to the task at hand. They’re you’re interface to making.
In this guide, we look at tools that are both fantasy wish list specials and practical tools that have stood the test of repeated use. Some are sexy and expensive, others more homely and affordable. We think every one of them is a winner as a potential gift for that active maker in your life — or for those who dream of more time for making, one acquired fetish object at a time.
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