On Nov 6, 8:40*pm, Dave Smith > wrote:
> brooklyn1 wrote:
> > A wonderful ole tyme spatula:
> >http://www.leevalley.com/garden/page...=2,40733,44734
>
> > A great stocking stuffer for that budding scientist:
> >http://www.leevalley.com/gifts/page....at=4,104,55972
>
> > Get those tiny brain cells FUNctioning:
> >http://www.leevalley.com/gifts/page....t=4,104,55972&...
>
> > Tis the season:
> >http://www.leevalley.com/wood/page.a...=1,46096,46100
>
> > Check out many more exciting reasonably priced gifts.
>
> > No connection, just a very satisfied customer.
>
> I have a love-hate relationship with Lee Valley/ It's like Ikea. You
> can't *go into that store to get something without picking up a lot of
> other stuff because they have so many good things and you won't find
> them anywhere else. A couple years ago I was refinishing a dresser and
> needed new drawer pulls. It was the natural place to go because they
> have a wide variety of drawer knobs and pulls. I found some that were
> basically the same as the ones I needed to replace. I needed 8 but they
> only had 4 in stock. They assured me that they could get me the other 2
> and mail them to me within a week. I paid for 8, took the 6 they had,
> and the other 2 were in my mail box two days later.- Hide quoted text -
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Amazing. I hadn't realised they had all those stores. I always think
of them as an Ottawa company.

I heard that one of their files (rasps?) for wood working used to sell
out very quickly as it was perfect for grating nutmeg.

John Kane Kingston ON Canada