The Douglas Gillis family of Chico, California USA have a tool store and have been selling automotive, construction, remodeling, homeowner and hobbyist tools since 1986.  As the result of selling tools for so many years, Doug has quite a bit of knowledge on a wide range of tool related topics.  He has an ax collection with many dozens of axes, including a head hunter ax from the Philippines, thousands of tools in the store, thousands of tools in his private collection and more stored.

We put up this tools blog in order to write articles of interest about tools and to answer questions people may have about their tools and tool use.