Thread: What is your most used tool?

I reckon I'd use my tape measure the most.

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Mirboo.

Bandaid

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Derek

Leatherman Supertool...always on my belt, always reached for! 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

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 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

Originally Posted by Lignum

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? Maybe only five of us have square furniture

I get timber presquared, I don't even own an electric jointer, and can't envisage ever even needing one.
Furniture needs to be square:eek: , when did this happen:confused: ? who decreed this ? and why:confused: ?, cause none of my houses have had square corners .

Originally Posted by E. maculata

I...cause none of my houses have had square corners .

Arh, so you are the bloke that built 76 Dearness St. in Garbutt Townsville. :mad:

Boy was that place bent outta shape.

The tiles on the floor in the bathroom & toilet were square with one wall only. :eek:

Pencil.

Definitely a pencil. Usually a RED clutch pencil so I can see where it is at all times IF I accidentally put it down.

It's also known as my "Talking Stick" because I can't explain anything to anyone unless I have a pencil in my hand.

I use it to think out loud with as well, make marks, dig glue out of corners, and without the lead it's a handy pickup device for really tiny screws out of reading glasses and radios, (you know the kind that are too small to pick up by hand)

Cheers,

P

Originally Posted by bitingmidge

Pencil.

Definitely a pencil. Usually a RED clutch pencil so I can see where it is at all times IF I accidentally put it down.

It's also known as my "Talking Stick" because I can't explain anything to anyone unless I have a pencil in my hand.

I use it to think out loud with as well, make marks, dig glue out of corners, and without the lead it's a handy pickup device for really tiny screws out of reading glasses and radios, (you know the kind that are too small to pick up by hand)

Cheers,

P

But, Brother Midge .... if the screws have fallen out of your reading glasses into your radio, how do you keep your glasses on your nose so you can see to pick up the little screws with your clutch pencil? :confused:

Originally Posted by bitingmidge

....Definitely a pencil....

Did you hear about the constipate mathematician who worked it out with a pencil?