I told you all about my neighbor John. He is a hell of a good guy. He is the guy that had cancer surgery the day after I had surgery on my ankle last winter. We spent a fair amount of time together when we were convalescing from our respective surgeries.
A few weeks ago, I was up at John's place clearing out his fire break at the same time I was clearing ours. Another buddy of John's stopped by, Mr Taylor. (I cannot remember his first name). Apparently, Mr Taylor is a fairly renowned tool and die maker. He is also a hell of a nice guy but I never thought much about him after meeting him that day.
Mrs Inor was at the post office today and there was a package for me from Mr Taylor.
He had made me a set of brass setup blocks for my router and a set of 1-2-3 blocks! The 1-2-3 blocks are probably accurate to less than 1/10,000 inch and are definitely overkill for what I need in a wood shop, but damn! They are cool as hell and I can already think of a million uses for them. I have needed a new set of brass setup blocks for close to 10 years, but they are just one of those things that I never seemed to get around to getting for myself. (My old ones are all beat to shit from being carried around in my pockets, dropped, kicked under benches, etc.)
There are still quite a few damn good folks in the world!