Lee Valley catalog *LINK*
Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA
>So, Rob's elves sent me the January tool-porn booklet (thanks, Rob and elves -- I'm curious what "source code UWDWK" means?). I haven't ever requested a catalog because I'm frantically paying off the house so I can retire earlier and play with all the toys I already own and don't want to impose on Rob when I know I won't be buying anything anytime soon, unless the lottery gods smile down on me, something they haven't done till yet.
Anyhow, getting back to the subject from my digression, there's a whole lot more lustworthy stuff there than the admittedly lustworthy planes and spokeshaves. The carpenter's pencil sharpener is far better than the design I see in the local lumberyards (which turns a carpenter's pencil into a regular one), for instance, but I'm particularly entertained by the glue condoms (see link below).
A lot of very, very clever, well-thought-out stuff. It's nice to see someone continuing to develop the tools that support the craft.
They're actually called "nozzle caps"