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16th April 2006, 11:25 PM #1
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What is your most used tool?
O.K. which tool do you find most often in your hand? (yes, leave the double entendre out of it )
For me, it's the try square.
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16th April 2006, 11:26 PM #2
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roughing gouge or skew chisel ( i mostly turn stuff )
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16th April 2006, 11:44 PM #3
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My most used tools are machine's that dont fit in the hand... I vote other!
Thread title shoud be most used "hand" tool.......................................................................
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16th April 2006, 11:53 PM #4
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I think it is hand plane for me. Actually the try square is pretty close too.
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16th April 2006, 11:59 PM #5
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click pencil:eek:
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17th April 2006, 12:03 AM #6
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Is a pencil a tool or a comsumable, a marking knife is a tool!
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17th April 2006, 12:03 AM #7
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This is a hard question Craig. The tool most picked up or the tool in the hand for the longest accumulative time? No double meanings intended
I use my chisels, marking gauge and planes on most jobs along with the squares, pencil, marking awl and dovetail marking template. I use my RAS and bandsaw quite a bit and my electric router but they are mainly used for breaking down and shaping larger pieces of timber.
A lot of time is used also on the whiteboard and paper if you can call those tools.
Yesterday I spent a fair bit of time on a cheap SCMS I bought.
The time spent was setting it up so it was square and half accurate. It will be used when I do those love jobs away from the shed such as some skirting boards for my cousin tomorrow morning and his bookcase in a few weeks/months time. Noisy savage dusty thing but it does the job near enough.
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17th April 2006, 12:09 AM #8
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MArking - Incra Rule
Drilling - Drill Driver
Cutting - Block Plane
Pounding - MAllet
MAchine - Dust extractor
ME - Hands (You'd think Brain would be first here ............But No!) :eek:
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17th April 2006, 12:18 AM #9
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The most picked up was where I was coming from Rob.
Originally Posted by Wood Borer
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17th April 2006, 12:21 AM #10
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Well, not in my hands, but I'm at my sliding panel saw for up to 8 hours a day (gets pretty bloody monotonous
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tomorrow you will have paid for it and not have it."
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17th April 2006, 12:29 AM #11
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Most picked up? that would have to be a tape measure - there's about a dozen of them around the shed, one in the front of the ute, two in the house and a couple in my carry all.
Mick"If you need a machine today and don't buy it,
tomorrow you will have paid for it and not have it."
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17th April 2006, 12:29 AM #12
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Tape measure
I use it all the time - sometimes it's accurate sometimes it isn't
Should I get it calibrated ??People make mistakes...
That's why they put erasers on the end of pencils
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17th April 2006, 12:40 AM #13
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Mallet, pencil or marking gauge have to be seriously considered then. Originally Posted by craigb
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17th April 2006, 01:58 AM #14
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If not my tape measure, then it'd have to be my "sharpened nail in a handle."
Pencils disappear too quickly around here.
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17th April 2006, 03:38 AM #15
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It would be the cordless drill.
As a matter of interest is a marking or measuring instrument a tool? A quick search pulled up this definition of a tool.
A tool is, among other things, a device that provides a mechanical or mental advantage in accomplishing a task. Most tools employ some form of simple machine, or a combination of them. For example, a hammer simply functions as a lever with the fulcrum (pivot point) being the hand of the user. The further out from the pivot point, the more force is transmitted along the lever. A sword combines a lever and a wedge.
Not trying to be smart but I am interested to hear opinions.Cheers,
Rod
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