Gary,
If a someone asks to borrow a prized chisel how would you politely decline the request?
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There are several options.
Go Shakespearean: What, you egg! Shag haired villain of treachery! [and then with a smile] Begone or I shall have to smite you!
Be helpful: Please, please I invite you. Here are all of my tools, including this my most prized chisel, the one I dote upon, the chisel I grab, for only the most important of cuts. The central chisel of my life. Please gaze upon it and upon them all and marvel at them as do I. But please please do not touch them. Look and marvel.
Finally, be direct: When I die, you may touch my tools. If you wish to die, then you may touch them now.
Good luck to you sir.
Gary Rogowski
Director
The Northwest Woodworking Studio
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