A man's tools are like a woman's jewels...

[Ultradog MN]

Won these jewels at the auction yesterday and picked them up this morning.
A big ol Jacobs® 20N chuck on a #3 morse taper arbor and some bling for my vise.
They make me want to dress up

 

[Steve in VA]

Won these jewels at the auction yesterday and picked them up this morning.
A big ol Jacobs® 20N chuck on a #3 morse taper arbor and some bling for my vise.
They make me want to dress up

Nice. Great scores

 

[Randyscottsboro]

Let the wife find out about all your jewels and you may lose your own, once said a wise man with a wife that had anger issues.

 

[Texasmark]

Won these jewels at the auction yesterday and picked them up this morning.
A big ol Jacobs® 20N chuck on a #3 morse taper arbor and some bling for my vise.
They make me want to dress up

On the subject matter of this post: My tools are necessary for my survival......I doubt any woman's jewels are necessary for her survival....maybe social position, but not survival......unless a thief wants them while she is wearing them......

 

[GChief]

So people are to serious all the time

 

[Lafox60147]

1893 Case Shaft Driven Threshing Machine. 12 Horse Sweep Power with all accessories. Good Condition

 

[circus]

Before stable currency jewelry was about the only way to preserve liquid wealth. Tools were about the only way to increase liquid wealth. Both kept you from starving in tough times. Looks like what's old is new again.

 

[drsportster]

I have Wilton jaws on every vise

 

[Texasmark]

I have Wilton jaws on every vise

Just curious: What are they and why do you have them on every vise?

 

[GChief]

Just a WAG for me, looks like "soft" jaws. My new vise came with hard silicone ones.

 

[Ultradog MN]

Just curious: What are they and why do you have them on every vise?

They're copper soft jaws and prevent marring on a finished piece you may be clamping.
You tap the straps into place so they fit your vise. They're easily removable if you aren't particular about the finish and want more grip on something.

 

[Sean Feeney]

Pirates wore earrings as practical survival tools and lucky charms. Gold hoops served as "funeral insurance" to pay for a proper burial if a body washed ashore.

 

[Hobo,NC]

I have invested a small fortune in tools they are my livelihood. I did not know till my wife passed she had invested the same in jewelry. Jewelry is worth scrap value : (

 

[GChief]

Jewelry is worth scrap value : (

Depends on the jewelry and where you try to sell it. We've got good luck selling jewelry

 

[drsportster]

Just curious: What are they and why do you have them on every vise?

It is a protective copper covering that snaps over the steel jaws for protection of squeezing parts

 

[Fred Werring]

I suggested to my wife during a discussion that my stuff...tools, tractors, things that go bang...would bring good money when the kids have the estate sale.
While her stuff would be sitting in cardboard boxes on a hay wagon as the auctioneer tried to get a dollar bid.

It's one of those things I decided to never bring up again

 

[Ultradog MN]

I suggested to my wife during a discussion that my stuff...tools, tractors, things that go bang...would bring good money when the kids have the estate sale.
While her stuff would be sitting in cardboard boxes on a hay wagon as the auctioneer tried to get a dollar bid.

It's one of those things I decided to never bring up again

I think most of us here would agree with you but it's a topic that's best left unsaid in polite company.
About a month ago my neighbor lady borrowed my hammer stapler and a box of staples "for an afternoon" and a week later hadn't returned it. I wondered about it so I texted her that bit about men's tools are like women's jewels and asked if she still had my stapler. She texted back: "Yes, it's safe. I'll bring it over after work."
I wonder if she would have forgotten if I had loaned her a matching brooch and earrings

 

[Texasmark]

Depends on the jewelry and where you try to sell it. We've got good luck selling jewelry

Maybe to an attendee at a "jewelry" show but not to a jeweler....get half what it's worth if you are lucky enough to get that. That's why I don't do much investing in Gold.

 

[GChief]

Maybe to an attendee at a "jewelry" show but not to a jeweler....get half what it's worth if you are lucky enough to get that. That's why I don't do much investing in Gold.

Probably depends on the jewelery shop and what they carry. Most of ours was bought by a shop, but they mostly do "high-end" antique jewelery.

 

[Hobo,NC]

As an example In my case it would be $79 what I call costume jewelry that has $10 worth of sterling silver (scrap value). The good stuff brought what she paid for it only because the value of gold went up. If you set on it 20,30,40 years and get your money back is that a good investment? This will fit the general population excluding the taco man : ).

The value of a tool I look at it as the cost to replace it I don't see something I don't need fit into that category YMMV.