While tools are inherently useful, they vary in their quality and character. Most older tools seem to be of higher quality and greater character and some really old tools seem to transcend the plane of great character into the realm of extraordinary wonder. Only a few things I’ve picked up along the way have this quality and one is a set of 6 vintage L.S. Starrett jeweller screwdrivers. As I apply these tools to modern tasks like prying open electronics assembled by robots and changing the batteries of toy robots, I wonder what past lives they’ve lived. I daydream about where they’ve been and what they’ve done and how they were thought of by their previous owners, all of whom I picture being elderly tinkerers. It’s impossible not to admire their age and beauty and timeless utility and I hope they stay in our family for at least a couple generations before they’re passed on.
