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The dad who measures everything twice because the tape keeps folding
Eight metres of 32mm blade in a chrome case with a rubber grip, metric and imperial, model 5-33-891. The wide blade gives a long unsupported standout.
A wide blade means it stays rigid across a room, which is the difference between measuring alone and needing someone to hold the other end. Nobody buys themselves a good tape measure and everybody notices the difference the first time they use one.
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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.
