A catalogue that'll keep you awake at night

charlie b · 2004-07-11T05:57:23+00:00

The following IS NOT Spam (tm) and I have no connectionof any commercial sort with Dick Fine Tools, though Ihave been to their store in Metten and did buy some handtools from them. A couple of years back I was planning a trip to Europe withmy son and asked about places to get woodworking hand tools.Someone suggested I check out Dick Fine Tools in Metten,northeast of Munich. Using a tool excursion as an excuseto try out the Auto Bahn (sp?) and to find out what it felt like to drive at 120 -130 mph, we took off to Mettenintending to acquire some Two Cherries bench chiselsand some Stubai carving chisels.Alas, Dr. Rudolf Dick had gotten into Japanese Gardeningand was dealing almost exclusively in Japanese tools.Bummer. But the guy up front, who didn't speak English,was very polite and helpful as translated by my son whodoes speak German. Got a couple of Japanese chisels anda tenon marking gauge just to be polite (and the pricesweren't bad either) and asked where we might find Two Cherries chisels. Turns out they were on pegboards at the Borg type "home center" just down theroad a kilometer or two.Before leaving Dick Fine Tools I filled out a card toreceive their catalogue. Well, the 2004/2006 catalogue arrived today (Saturday) and has occupieda good part of the day and will, no doubt, keep meup tonight and probably eat up some of Sunday aswell.If you like the Garrett Wade and Lee Valley cataloguesyou'll love the Dick Fine Tools catalogue. ALL in color. large format, glossy paper, hard paperback cover and loaded with photos, descriptions and explanations,along with prices in Euros, of every kind of woodworking hand tool, clamp, knife etc.. you can think of - and some you probably didn't even knowexisted. This is definitely a bedside or coffee table book, which, if taken to bed to browsebefore dropping off to dream about the toolsyou've looked at, WILL KEEP YOU AWAKE atnight because each page will capture and holdyour attention until you've looked at and...

Jul 11, 2004 23 Replies

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Mark Jerde 22 years ago

Works fine for me. MS Internet Exploder 6 on WinXP Pro.

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George 22 years ago

I just got my new L-N catalog today. A sleepless night ahead. Much whining and begging for weeks....

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Charlie Self 22 years ago

Ow. I just got a new camera and have to have at least one new studio flash unit. No matter how much I whine and beg, there's nothing there for the fun stuff.

Charlie Self "Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others." Ambrose Bierce

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J. Clarke 22 years ago

Me too--Konqueror/Linux. And if it works with Konqueror it'll work with just about anything.

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