What do you want for Christmas ? I was asked a couple of weeks ago. I answered, A cartridge overall length gauge please, but not a mass produced one, it would be much nicer if Father Christmas brought me a Shed2P gauge.

The postman knocked on the door this morning, asked for my signature, then handed me this little white packet with a Shed sticker on the outside. It was supposed to be passed over, to be wrapped up and saved under the tree until Christmas day. That will still happen, but I couldn't resist having a little peek first ...

Oh, it looks absolutely exquisite. A shiny measuring tool that is also a work of art and probably made to finer tolerances than my shooting will ever reveal. I was about to try out the way the two parts self align on the calipers when I got caught. "Just checking it didn't get damaged in the post". Now I have to wait until Christmas day to have a play.