Of my many Goldsmith Tools, these tools are special…They were either given to me (the first 3) or they were bought with my very low wages when I began as a Goldsmith way back in January 1986 ….. I had just turned 16. The pliers are of such good quality I wonder would they be as good if they were bought today. Technology has advanced but these basics are still used every day just as they were many hundred years before.