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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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 )
My most used tools are machine's that dont fit in the hand... I vote other!
Thread title shoud be most used "hand" tool...
I think it is hand plane for me. Actually the try square is pretty close too.
click pencil:eek:
Is a pencil a tool or a comsumable, a marking knife is a tool!
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 :o
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.
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:
REgards Lou:D:D:D
The most picked up was where I was coming from Rob.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wood Borer
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
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
Tape measure
I use it all the time - sometimes it's accurate sometimes it isn't
Should I get it calibrated ??
Mallet, pencil or marking gauge have to be seriously considered then.Quote:
Originally Posted by craigb
If not my tape measure, then it'd have to be my "sharpened nail in a handle."
Pencils disappear too quickly around here. :(
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.
A professional artist or even a housepainter would be extremely peeved if being told their brushes, etc. couldn't be deducted as "tools of trade." :D:DQuote:
Originally Posted by rodm
No matter how accurate a bandsaw, tablesaw, or whatever tool you use, it'd soon prove to be pretty useless without appropriate layout tools. Including squares, rulers, pencils and scribes.
My constant companion and most handled tool is home made - I call it my "doubtabout".
We've all had the message 'Measure twice. cut once', well I use my doubtabout to ensure I have time to rethink all moves, and there is no doubtabout it having saved me much frustration and embarassment.
Make one, and try it. Mine is a simple lenght of dowel painted bright yellow with even brighter red ends. I hold it from the time I unlock my Playroom.
Edit: Sorry. I vote 'Other'.
I voted for hand plane without giving it too much thought. On reflection - and having read through the posts above - I'd still vote the same way.
I reckon that I would use one of my hand planes every time I do any woodworking. Even if I don't need to use a plane for the particular task I'm working on, I nearly always just put a piece of wood in the vice and take a couple of swipes for the sheer pleasure!
I reckon that, as with standing and/or leaning and staring, it is a Code of Practice requirement to do something useless and unnecessary every time a bloke goes into the workshop.
Col
Definitely the pencil for me
Cheers Sam
G'day,
Tools I most use in progression are:
• ruler;
• pencil;
• square;
• bandsaw with dusty;
• jointer with dusty;
• face plate sander;
• sanding block; and
• paint brush.
and somewhere in between depending on what I'm doing:
• drill press; and
• lathe.
Yeah, I know it says hand tool but they're all held in your hand aren't they? ;)
I reckon I use my handsaws more than anything else, but now that I'm starting to use planes, they are fast becoming a close second and maybe a first.
I just love darksiding away :)
cheers
Wendy
measure twice, cut once. DAMN:mad: get another piece
measure three times, cut once DAMN again:mad: :mad: get another piece
Measure five times, cut oncehttp://www.woodworkforums.ubeaut.com...ons/icon14.gif
Gotta be the tape measure for me
IMO the workshop, the way it is laid out and organised to suit the working needs of its owner, is a tool in itself. At least in my case it is.:D
So I voted other.
Peter.
As a beginner woodie, I have been practicing my marking out/measuring, and I would have to say try square at this stage, with my chisels and hand saw a close second.
Looking forward to buying my first electron burner soon, hopefully at Brissy woodshow(not made my mind up what to buy yet!!)
Hey Doug. I've a mate who when challenged for cutting a length of steel too short replied, "It's my ****** steel, I'll cut where I want!", and this was not said with the intention of being funny.
The same bloke is sort of famous for saying, "The nearer we got, the farther she got away!"
soth
WHile I'm building the shed and stuff its my Wally 14.4 cordless and the Makita 24v for the heavy duty stuff.
Don i like the look of the saddle square. it looks robust and accurate, being solid and almost impossible to knock out of square. would be just the thing to eliminate parallex error when continuing a line around a piece of square or rectangular stock. where do you buy them?Quote:
Originally Posted by DPB
Oh, and, um, err, i think you could improve even further on accuracy in marking out if you buy a good pencil sharpenerhttp://www.woodworkforums.ubeaut.com...ons/icon14.gif
Doug, that's one of the reasons I love this tool. This is where I purchased mine. http://tinyurl.com/f2qnw They also sell a 45 degree saddle square.
roughing gouge
turning it's so addictive, followed closley by the dust extractor???
I must remember.......start extractor?? start lathe?? lol
either me hammer or the axe
I reckon I'd use my tape measure the most.
Regards,
Mirboo.
Bandaid:D
Regards from Perth
Derek
Leatherman Supertool...always on my belt, always reached for! :D To give an example of daily use: sharpen pencil, pliers to undo wingnut on easel, normal blade as marking knife, cut packing tape, awl to clean out MIG nozzle, screwdriver to access batteries, built-in ruler for emergency measuring instead of hoofing it 3 buildings away.
To be honest I'd be lost without it!
Cheers,
Steel rule. I've got 1 metre, 300mm and 150mm versions. Very handy for all sorts of jobs, even measuring ;)
Yer all liars. No-one's mentioned the moaning chair yet :D
Me little block plane. Lovely little brute and able to make tall mountains of shavings out of any lump of dead tree.
Richard
Vacuum cleaner - doesn't matter which tool I use, something has to get sucked up at the end.
Next - rubbish bin for the times when it's too big to be sucked up ( a mistake is just a bloody big shaving)
Marking knife, chisel, bandaids.
#1-Measuring devices, tapes, steel rules, verniers.(dozens of lufkin tapes lying around the shed and house:o just in case of an emergency measuring moment)
#2-Marking devices, scribe or pencils.(I've always used scribes made from keysteel)
#3-The venerable and much underated cordless drill(buy a really good one you'll never go back)
I make things, and I reckon like a lot of my fellow board denizens not necessarily just wooden stuff, so these three seem to be a constant must have at my side. At the moment I''m building a frankenstien four stroke motocross bike, and these three are still the most reached for, just as they were when I built two bedsides last year.
Im puzzled that only 5 out of 42 have said a square. Isnt it the first thing you grab to check the jointer fence before dressing the timber to start a project? then onto the saw to make sure the blade is square to rip and cross/cut, using it to mark shoulders on your dovetails or making sure the handplaned board is flat and square, or your tennons are ok, or the bandsaw table is square before you rip those boards, then checking all the way through every stage of a job to make sure its all square? Mine is in my pocket all day and gets used far more than any other thing i own. Maybe only five of us have square furniture:D