What to get for a fellas 40th birthday?

[mic-d]

I have a erm... friend, yeah that's it, a friend, who's turning 40 soon and he has no idea what he wants. SWMBO is pressuring me for what I, ah I mean he might like but this is tough.
SWMBO: New electric razor?
Me, I mean him: "old one still works"
SWMBO: fly rod?
him "wouldn't use it in Brisbane west much"
SWMBO: "radio controlled plane"
him: might be fun, for the first week, gonna be a dust gatherer.
him : a boat?
SWMBO: sarcastic laugh
He thinks he'd like to hold out a bit longer b4 getting a set of Japanese chisels but SWMBO is happy to spend that much on him :eek: (i'm not sure there isn't something going on between them)
No other tools I want that I can currently afford or fit in my meagre space, He!, he!, I mean he can fit in. So over to you lot. Any ideas for gifts <=$600
for a fella turning 40? You don't need to know me, just after ideas, and one of you might just have one crazy enough for me to like.

Cheers

Michael
I mean him to like doh.

[Auld Bassoon]

A nice LN plane perhaps, such as their Anniversary smoothing plane: see here

[Stuart]

A Jet planer


Some HNT Gordon Planes


Viagra

[craigb]

I'm with Steve. Get a LN plane.
You'll have it for the rest of your life and you'll never forget who gave it to you.

I got a LA smoother for my 50th. It's still my favorite handtool.

[Skew ChiDAMN!!]

A good mattress for the bed and tools/materials to convert your household steps into ramps... now that you've hit 40, it won't be long before you learn to really appreciate 'em!

[Bluegum]

Damn this means I have decisions like this to look forward to as I climb the ladder to 40....:eek: :eek:

[Bodgy]

I always buy Grecian 2000, for mates that hit 40.

50 yrs sees a pack of incontinence pads.

60, well no call as yet, but maybe something creative will come to me.

Incidentally, there's a set of 8 used Nip chisels on EPay for $100 last time I looked.

[ian]

a LN plane, I'd suggest something more upmarket but, beside your mate being 41 before it arrived, there'd be nothing to look forward to when he turns 50 )

set of LN chisels

get Colin Clenton or Chris Vesper to make a matched set of layout tools: 90° square, mitre square, cutting guage, mortise guage, sliding bevel, small layout square, scratch awl, etc


ian

[Tonyz]

clothing with parrots on, ..... ahhh droool

Tonto

[Tex B]

A nice LN plane perhaps, such as their Anniversary smoothing plane: see here

Makes me want to turn 40 again. Maybe 50? 48?

Tex

[Harry72]

How about $600 of nice wood... make his own present!

[Ikkyu]

clothing with parrots on, ..... ahhh droool

Tonto

There is just something really weird about what you just said.

Ikkyu

[masoth]

Pyrograph tool - branch out and try something new.

soth

[mic-d]

Thanks fellas for the ideas! SWMBO says no to the LN plane since I am 3/4 way thru tuning a set of old Stanleys. The 4 1/2 is working beautifully too. If I get the viagra, I probably have to get the new matress and ramps immediately :eek:
Grecian 2000 is not a bad idea, if I can use it on my beard. I thought this would be the only hair on my head by the time I turned 40, but my ears and nose seem to be going out in sympathy to the noggin. It's sprouting in all sorts of unwanted places.

The LN chisels might be good. I've been waiting to hear from someone about a comparison to japanese chisels.

Cheers
Michael

[craigb]

The LN chisels might be good. I've been waiting to hear from someone about a comparison to japanese chisels.

I can't compare them to Jap chisels because I don't own any Jap ones but the LN bevel edge chisels are the duck's guts!

I love using mine.

Beutifully made, superbly balanced and they really hold an edge.