I have a LOT of tools, but a special one is a Stanley pry bar from the 1960’s. It was my dad’s. He was an airline pilot (absolutely NOT a carpenter) but somehow I ended up with it. What a tool. Beautiful spring steel. Fine at the edge and “lively,” not like the static/blunt pry bars that are available today. Nothing fancy, but I think of my dad every time I use it, and nothing currently made comes close.

“Perfection is Achieved Not When There Is Nothing More to Add, But When There Is Nothing Left to Take Away” Antoine de Saint-Exupery