1-absolutely most useful alrounder for everthing= my makita 14.4V ultimate cordless drill/driver bought ’04 paid $550 two 3.0 amphere batteries (originals) last a while (although starting to show age and use now)
has been used for 2 house reno’s, building furniture, mechanical duties with sockets and screwbits attached, everything, my wrists love it, i love it out torques my mates dewalt 18V that cost him more and he uses them for a living.
2- makes life so much easier on hard tasks= my hare & forbes sliding panelsaw, rebuilding a house? buy one…not building at all.. buy one anyway, and smile, get rid of your poxy Mitre/drop saws and sawbenches all now redundant then put a router table on one side of it and viola a everything workshop for the budding cabinetmaker/chippie, allround handybloke.
3-emotional favourites= My strictly user hand planes that are still part of my working tools from the rocking horse pooh #60 & a half low angle lane from 1898, my so smooth to use stanley sweetheart #7, to the almost complete collection of Aussie Pope/Falcon wood planes from the 1940s and the nightmare routing plane that only a complete idiot would try and use on aussie timbers (Duh) more than once.
4-reliability and know them like the back of my hand=the sidchrome socket set I bought when i was 15, only one socket broken and all still in the original case.
Mr Blue
