Everyday we sit down at our bench and pick up the tools in front of us without a though as to the condition of them.

Why not, at the end of each day, just spend ten minutes looking at the condition of your most used hand tools and check to see if they are in tip top condition. Do the points of your tweezers meet perfectly? Have you had a propblem with the jaws of your pliers marking the surface of a piece you were working on?