View Poll Results: Your most often used is?

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  • Try Square

    6 10.17%
  • Hand Plane

    4 6.78%
  • Hand Saw

    2 3.39%
  • Router

    1 1.69%
  • Power saw

    4 6.78%
  • Other

    42 71.19%
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  1. #1
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    Default 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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    roughing gouge or skew chisel ( i mostly turn stuff )
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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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    I think it is hand plane for me. Actually the try square is pretty close too.
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    click pencil:eek:
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    Thumbs up

    Is a pencil a tool or a comsumable, a marking knife is a tool!

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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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    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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    Quote Originally Posted by Wood Borer
    . The tool most picked up or the tool in the hand for the longest accumulative time?
    The most picked up was where I was coming from Rob.

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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 )

    Mick
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    tomorrow you will have paid for it and not have it."

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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
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    tomorrow you will have paid for it and not have it."

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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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    Quote Originally Posted by craigb
    The most picked up was where I was coming from Rob.
    Mallet, pencil or marking gauge have to be seriously considered then.
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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.
    I may be weird, but I'm saving up to become eccentric.

    - Andy Mc

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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.
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    Rod

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