Ok, I need some tool-guy understanding and support here...I'm having a personal crisis.
I've been collecting cool old USA-made and Euro-made quality tools for years and years. But as I keep buying bargains on these used tools
one piece at a time at flea mkts, estate sales, etc, I have found it really tough to create complete sets. I have them sorted in bins by brand name....but there are LOTS of brand names, and every brand had changing styles, etc.
(following photo is several years old. I have MANY more tools sorted by brand now, overflowing these bins. PLUS I have the tools I work with day to day.)
Thus I recently decided to
make a list of all my tools by brand name, and try to make sets out of my random collections by buying only tools that were missing from "sets" that I had. But the task was too large, and I found I simply could not get it done. So then I asked myself...
how could I EVER hope to complete any "sets?" 
After much agonizing, I realized that I could keep "treasure hunting" for cool old quality tools
(my favorite hobby), but that I would have to make the decision to fill out sets of only a few brands for myself to keep.
All this is leading up to explaining my decision: I must fill out the sets of tools that I inherited from my Dad. He was my personal hero, and his tools are precious to me. To finance this, I MUST make the tough decision to sell off other tools that I really love. I'm going to create a classified ad on Garage Journal, and sell all the Plomb, Proto-Los Angeles, and Firestone tools that I have.
Don't hate me guys. I love these tools too. But I am determined to focus on only a few brands from now on.
Following are 4 photos of my collection. Soon I will post classified ads, with better photos, from closer views of the tools. If they don't sell here, I will put them on flea-bay.
Do you have any pictures of the other side of the ratchet?
. give me a minute, be right back
