For our next tool-related conversation, I'd like to talk with you all about your "Touch? Die!" tools. These are the most precious and critical tools in your collection, the tools that you have an almost irrationally protective attitude towards. I call them "Touch? Die!" tools because I had a friend years ago who had a stamp that he'd use to mark certain tools. It read: Touch? Die! He was otherwise a very gentle, peaceful soul, so the intensity of this statement always struck me and made me realize how protective we can be over certain tools that we can't bear to lose, part with, or have damaged.