Dream Tools--What do you yearn for?

[Col. Batguano]

Like most on this forum, I've built a few ML'ers over the years. With some of the basics, (bench, vices, lighting, files, gouges, sharpening stones) I go out there and get them when I need them. It's the price of entry. $20, $30, 40 isn't a budget buster (usually), but some of these things (or systems) are pretty dog gone expensive. It becomes a question of; "can I really justify the purchase price of $XXX with what I'm going to do with it? Will I use it enough?" Or, "if I get it, will that motivate me (or my domestic situation allow it) to use it enough?"

What are your dream tools that you are either saving for, or, wish you had? I can name about 4 that I wish I had, but am wrestling with the above. In my case, most are powered systems, (like a Lindsay pneumatic engraving set up) but not everything is.

 

[billraby]

I need to get a bandsaw and a lathe.

 

[JackP]

I need to get a bandsaw and a lathe.

I can remember dreaming of having a lathe and a milling machine. I ended up having my own machine shop for almost 30 years. I'm retired now and getting old, yesterday I gave my oldest son 3 milling machines and 4 lathes. I will still have access to them if I get the urge to make something. I hope you get your lathe Bill, then of course you will need a milling machine.

 

[garypl]

Always wanted to get a small metal lathe an/or milling machine. Just don’t have room to set them up now.

 

[Colonial Boy]

I have a couple of lathes and a bench drill, small band saw and lots of hand tools,
I fondly remember when I was the Machine Shop Foreman in ab Army Workshop unit.

 

[colimr]

13" Thickness planer, 9" band saw, 8" x 24" lathe

 

[andy52]

Lathe/milling machine combo and a micro torch.

 

[Phil Coffins]

A CNC mill and an EDM would be nice. That would allow me to make one or two parts a year at about $10,000 apiece!
And a TIG welder while I’m dreaming.

 

[Metalshaper]

A metal shaper! think they are just too cool and if nothing else I'd like to sit there and watch it work

 

[Rifleman1776]

I have a pretty complete wood working shop that has given me a lot of pleasure even though my skills never progress beyond moderate. Not sure if it qualifies as a 'machine' but these days I would love to have a quality photo slide scanner and photo quality printer. Have thousands of slides from my father and myself that are history but, I'm sure, will be discarded by my children after I pass over.

 

[Bucolic Buffalo]

I need a shop. A good workspace. Something more than my overcrowded carriage-house or front porch.

My most recent tool purchase is something I have wanted for a time. A Veritas Deluxe Honing Guide set. Maybe I can finally sharpen my chisels sharp enough.

 

[Larry (Omaha)]

Like most on this forum, I've built a few ML'ers over the years. With some of the basics, (bench, vices, lighting, files, gouges, sharpening stones) I go out there and get them when I need them. It's the price of entry. $20, $30, 40 isn't a budget buster (usually), but some of these things (or systems) are pretty dog gone expensive. It becomes a question of; "can I really justify the purchase price of $XXX with what I'm going to do with it? Will I use it enough?" Or, "if I get it, will that motivate me (or my domestic situation allow it) to use it enough?"

What are your dream tools that you are either saving for, or, wish you had? I can name about 4 that I wish I had, but am wrestling with the above. In my case, most are powered systems, (like a Lindsay pneumatic engraving set up) but not everything is.

It is too late now for this old man! I would somehow manage to keep my father's wood shop equipment with Delta 220 volt machinery. Having a family and work responsibilities, there was no place for the aforementioned. I had to sell for my mother which I could have had for free.
I should have purchase a metal cutting band saw years ago.
Larry

 

[Cruzatte]

While others are desirous of milling machines, lathes, etc., the tools I'd wish for are by comparison, quite pedestrian:

• a second, longer workbench equipped with supports to hold gunstocks
• an antique egg-beater drill
• a good draw knife
• engraving tools
• wood carving chisels
• a touch hole countersink to cone the touch hole from the interior

I think that should about do it. Modest, yes.

 

[sheriff john]

Just once, in the time I have left, a complete set of good quality hand tools and a machinist's vise.

 

[Robby]

A minion.
Robby

 

[Rod Man]

Lathe/milling machine combo and a micro torch.

And a nice Drill Press.

RM

 

[andy52]

And a nice Drill Press.

RM

That I already have..

 

[nhmoose]

CNC Mill, CNC Lathe & all the tools. Programmer female great legs in short skirt.. Dreaming here are we not?

 

[Kansas Jake]

I’m at the point we’re if hand tools and basic stuff won’t do it I’m not interested. No room, limited funds and sneaking older age have dampened those lusts.

 

[SmokepoleSam]

Cruzatte, I pm,d you.