A while ago...
I decided that I needed a woodworking plane. A bit of internet research suggested that the prevailing opinion, among the people who are properly into these things, is that sometime in the 70s they stopped making the blades for these out of metal and started making them out of cheese. They also stopped caring about little details, like whether the body is actually decently cast. So I went on eBay and bought an old one (50s). It is pretty nice and I have no reason to believe that it won't last me my entire life and probably well beyond.

Old tools for the win!
(flimflam_machine, Fri 5 Nov 2010, 11:21, 1 reply)

Further demonstration
of my point!
(Psymon_Spark Jesus Saves! The rest of you take 4d6 damage, Fri 5 Nov 2010, 11:40, closed)