Retro Tool Lover Gifts

Cylinder mower

'Little Yank' Calf Puller.

'Big audio gear is coming back!'

Swiss army hospital...'scalpel...'

"In the old days, we had to constantly feed the screensaver."

'I don't care what the Hares have. Dial-Up is good enough for us!'

'A cousin to the hammerhead, here we see the allusive, yet, handy, multi-use shark.'

The original paperless office

A bridge builder using an organic blow torch.

"He loves his leaf blower."

'Someday TVs will be in big boxes on the floor.'

STILL LIVES - Bolt: 'It's like we were made for one another!'

A hammer in his den enjoying a cigar and port with his collection of trophy thumbs above his head.

"Of course I know how to use a chainsaw!"

'Sure you won 'Contractor of the Decade' five times, McWit, but what have you done lately?'

'Where do I put the batteries?'

The Hammer

CLEAR!

Backlash industries: makers of the macro-chip, bigger, slower..and it even makes mistakes

'This is a letter opener, from the days before faxes and email. I just sold it online after I listed it as a vintage communication device.'

A crab with a utility knife claw

"So, how did the audition go?" "Great! I really nailed it."

'I've found a spade I like Julia...'

'We never had all these labour-saving devices in my young day!'

Before the development of the microchip, attempts to build a laptop computer were largely unsuccessful.

"The new computer is great, but we can't get rid of the old one. It knows too much."

Library Computer Center: Cybrarian

"You'll have to excuse my Stuart. He's just showing off his new drill.

"If I can't use a calculator, may I use my Dad's old slide-rule?"

'I feel like I'm in a rut, too!'

'Just as we finally get the industrial revolution down pat, we find ourselves in the middle of the electronic revolution.'

Technological advances within the office.

Telephone line ends up buried in the ground with a headstone.

Man has thrown his computer aside and is writing on a typewriter.

'Now you know where you left your tools.'