Best Experience Related to Homemade Tools?

[kbalch]

For myself, I've found that my best experiences have been due more to what I was building (and the associated communities) than the tools themselves. That is, in the course of building an airplane kit (and part of another), restoring a classic motorcycle, and now working on a kit car, I've encountered the same sorts of great people in each niche.

It's always seemed to me that these various fields were all self-selecting for the same sorts of people: intelligent, independent, creative, and, invariably, friendly and helpful. I've made lifelong friends while working on each project and generally gotten more out of my participation than just the particular vehicle, itself.

So, too, with homemade tools - and HomemadeTools.net!

Ken