Well, guys, here's the current giggle from sunny Krimea, a part, under vehement protest, of Ukraine.

Etoarmour.com just started carrying some nifty tools for bending, shaping, and folding of your PE sets. So, being the owner and second in command after Jeff at warehouse....ooops, make that third in the command string, VCO, then Jeff, and then me....I had the maker send three different tools here, for a quality check and so I can actually do the PE on the Panther and finish the JT without going blind.

First off, these are very high quality tools, made of machined aircraft aluminium, well thought out, and work grand. Already tried them out this afternoon. Bending, rolling, folding, nip and tuck, all are easy as pie with these tools.

OK, parcel slams in to the ground in Kiev on 03 March, just 3 days after posting from the Left Coast. And there it sits. We received the parcel today, opened and inspected by Border Control, aka Customs. For two weeks, they had a number of expurts (yeah, I know the correct spelling, but...) trying to figure out what these were. Of course, I would aver that not a one of these International Border Control Agents and Expurts speaks a word of English. Go figure on that one. In the end, they duly made out the Official Document of Inspection, signed by the Expurts, all three of them, and countersigned, Official Stamped and verified by the local Chef de la Day of Border Control, in triplicate, ascertaining that this was indeed......A BLEEDIN' BOX OF METAL!!

Me and the little one still have tears in our eyes from laughter, as do our local gals at our tiny Post. Said local gals have never seen anything like tanks or tools therefore, but even they, village gals all of them, instantly recognized the "box of metal" as tools. When in the laughter I mentioned that I was going to frame and hang that document in the Tank Fabrik, they asked for, and were given, permission to make a copy of the document so they could hang it also.

At least the idio...I mean, the Agents, who had carefully unwrapped each and every part, and inspected same, did put them all back in their packets and boxes correctly..kinda...I could see their grubby little fingerprints on the tools and bags, and forwarded the parcel to yours truly.

[sm=lol.gif] Oh man, what a 'ruff' life you have there. [sm=lol.gif]


- Jeff

At least from time to time the antics of Officialdom provide a good belly laugh. That, and the beer, wine, cigs, and cigars are cheap and good quality. Petrol ain't though.

For what it's worth,
That looks like the hold-n-fold, "The Bug", and the rolling set from the Small Shop in the Pacific Northwest.

All I would add is I have owned "The Bug", The Small Shop's cutting set, and their rolling set for about 4-5 years, and they are top notch. Great tools, that are well thought out, nicely engineered, durable, and do exactly what they were designed to do all at a very resonable price. Anyone considering doing any PE work would be well served to get these from ETO!

But hey that's just my opinion!

Squid

Nailed on the head, Squid. All the tools are from Smallshop, very very high quality. Worked on the JT rear fenders with them yesterday, and they are grand to say the least.