Another Grizzly thread...

[Van Huskey]

It's not the Grizzly catalogue I have a problem with, it's the Lee Valley Tools catalogue.

True tool porn.............Regards, Rod.

Ain't that the truth! Hardly a page in it I don't "need" something from.

My only complaint about the Grizzly catalog is the 2011 one isn't here yet.

[Dan Karachio]

Though probably not designed to be, it is perhaps the ultimate in bathroom reading. However, the Lee Valley catalogs are also great material for a similar purpose.

[David Helm]

Though probably not designed to be, it is perhaps the ultimate in bathroom reading. However, the Lee Valley catalogs are also great material for a similar purpose.

I expect they are all designed to be bathroom reading. It's exactly how they grab us. It would be a shame though for pages to be used for backside extraction in an outhouse (maybe the metalworking pages)!

[Mike Cruz]

Bill, he just did...

[Doug Carpenter]

It is big by design. That way if you drop it; it is simply too big to go into the toilet.

[Randy Dutkiewicz]

I have a serious bone to pick with Grizzly, and I think it needs to be out in the open.

Their catalogs are freakin' huge! I don't have that kind of time in my life to peruse so many cool toys, and I certainly don't have the money to pick more than a smattering for my collection. Grizzly is a tool tease, and it's high time someone called them out on it. I think I've spent a good 10-15 minutes per night the last two weeks looking through the book page by page, and I'm only 2/3rds of the way through. I feel Grizzly owes me some money for another highlighter or two... mine is running out of ink.

Amy is giving me some serious stink eye every time the cap comes off of the highlighter (though I could be imagining it from my contact high with the highlighter's solvent). I had to flip past entire sections of the catalog because I knew there was no way I could fit the tools in the workshop. One wall was destroyed to get the Stinger in, I don't believe I can swing that hammer again.

Shiraz? You've been marked. Slim your catalog selection before my credit cards burst into flames.

Dan,
I couldn't agree with you more! I don't know how many weekend nights my catalog has practically turned itself into my pillow for the night! I've fallen asleep on that HUGE catalog so many times that I believe I have some of the print marked on my forehead! Shiraz is the devil My wife is like yours too - she tells me I love the catalog and my tools more than I do her....obviously that's not true (hmmmmmmmmmmmm..........)

[Jaze Derr]

Dan,
I couldn't agree with you more! I don't know how many weekend nights my catalog has practically turned itself into my pillow for the night! I've fallen asleep on that HUGE catalog so many times that I believe I have some of the print marked on my forehead! Shiraz is the devil My wife is like yours too - she tells me I love the catalog and my tools more than I do her....obviously that's not true (hmmmmmmmmmmmm..........)

"obviously that's not ENTIRELY true"

There, fixed that for you

[Randall Clark]

David,
You read that whole thing in the bathroom? I got just one piece of advice: More fiber in your diet my friend!

[Peter Quinn]

Hmmm, I feel about the Grizzly catalogue how I feel about the menu at my local diner. Its way too long, there is a lot of repetition disguised as choice, its never the best food I've eaten but it has yet to poison me. I can however afford to feed the entire family there without working overtime that week or selling a kidney. Not once have I drooled on its pages.

Now that darn Felder literature. Those folks are nasty. Who gave them my number? Oh, right, I did. The catalogue is thin, the major choices are few, the expensive options are many, and every thing in there makes me drool a bit. Ok, sometimes a lot. I'd curse the Lee Valley catalogue but at least I can actually AFFORD to own some of the things in there, just not all of them at once.

[Don Bullock]

Does this mean the new one is out?

I don't have mine yet!

[Chip Lindley]

Nice try Dan! Amy looking over your shoulder as you type that?? lol!

Try multi-tasking! Peruse your too-thick Grizzly catalog while sitting on the pot! The highlighter fumes will serve as air freshener and Amy will be none the wiser. That is, until you build an elegant hardwood magazine rack for the bathroom!

Addendum: There are many of younger generations who never saw a Sears & Roebuck or J.C. Penney general catalog! (those multi-tasked in the outhouse in quite a quite different way) They make the Griz offering look like the grocery insert of a Wednesday newspaper!

[Aaron Berk]

Why did you guys have to mention the NEW catalog!!
Just when I was getting comfy with the one I have.
I whittled my reading times down to about 10min each session.
When I get a new one, I'm back up to 45-60 min read times.

Here we go again

[Kevin W Johnson]

I feel your pain...I married an "Amy" that does the same thing!

Should have married a Heather!!! My wife was out in the shop the other evening, and commented on my lack of space, telling me that i need to add on to it. She's awesome!!

[Dave Lehnert]

Am I the only one with a collection of about 10 years of old Grizzly catalogs?

Just thought they would be a great reference for someone 50 years from now.

[Cody Colston]

Am I the only one with a collection of about 10 years of old Grizzly catalogs?

Uh, probably.

Do you also save your old phone books?