Price shown at checkout at Amazon Australia
Researched, not tested. How we choose.
Opens Amazon Australia’s site in a new tab. You buy from them, at their price.
More for the shed dad · Father’s Day gifts · Christmas gifts · A birthday gifts
The dad who has rounded off a tap fitting and blamed the tap
Three sizes of Knipex Cobra water pump pliers, the push-button adjustable kind with a self-locking jaw that grips without slipping.
Cobras are the tool plumbers quietly show people, and once someone has used one the multigrips they grew up with feel like a compromise. Three sizes covers a tap, a radiator fitting and a stuck bolt, which is most of what goes wrong in a house.
View at Amazon Australia You buy from Amazon Australia, under their terms. We hold no stock and take no payment.
The dad who opens boxes with his car keys and has three blunt knives in the shed
Has a cutting edge. Total Tools sells it to over-18s only and verifies age at checkout.
The dad mid-renovation who keeps borrowing a 3m tape from the kitchen drawer
The dad who does his own car and plumbing jobs and currently balances a phone torch on the floor
The dad who works on cars or under the house and keeps running his phone flat using it as a torch
We will email you three weeks before Christmas, and three weeks before Father’s Day, with the shortlist already narrowed and the post still able to get there.
Two or three emails a year. Not a newsletter.
