So this week I installed some cabinets in a new restaurant in
Rochester and somehow or another my favorite hammer disappeared. It's
a small Craftsman brand hammer with a red rubber head on one side and
a yellow plastic head on the other. It sits in the hamer loop of my
Carhartt pants all day every day while I'm in the shop and I guess I
didn't realize just how much I used it. It's perfect for tapping
parts into alignment and I absolutely can't live without it now. So I
sprung for the additional $10 and got myself another. Peace has been
restored in my universe. Just thought I'd mention it because it's
such a handy tool and I'd recommend it to any woodworker.
JP
On Mar 21, 1:34=A0am, "Lee Michaels" <leemichaels*[email protected]>
wrote:
> "Larry Jaques" =A0wrote
>
> > Aw, yer taste is all in yer mouth, Swingy. =A0I have a lovely little pa=
l
> > in my Victorinox Classic SD. Handy toothpick, tweezers (works on metal
> > and wood splinters), small knife, scissors, nail file. I use it daily.
> > I also have chisels, drawknives, box cutters, linoleum cutters,
> > machetes, and half a dozen other blades for other things. Twine,
> > boxes, nails, teeth, and splinters? This one is just -made- for it,
> > and small enough to fit in my pocket without a single problem. I've
> > used one for at least 35 years. (none lost came back, either.)
>
> I have the same knife. I have gone through several of them. =A0My wife ha=
s
> washed a couple of them too. But they still work OK.
>
> Ia addition to being a small multipurpose tool, I use it to open letters =
and
> packages. And its most important function, I can trim nose, ear and musta=
che
> hair with it!
>
> Try doing that with a big ole pocket knife.
MY Dutch Army Knife has a small motor which holds a routerbit and the
battery also powers small wheels which makes the DAK travel across a 4
x 8 sheet cutting out patterns via GPS and ordinary uploaded G-code
files....AND it has toothpik.
"allen476" wrote
Mine is an old, beat up, half broken 16' tape measure. It has a small
body that I like. I haven't seen any like it until I went to the BORG
last week. They actually had them but packaged with a larger 25'. I
might breakdown and buy it and give the 25' away.
=================
I have a big monstosity of a tape that my wife got for me. It is a bright,
neon color. I found the perfect use for it.
I leave it in the house on top of an enertainment center. My wife can locate
it, doesn't lose it and can measure anything she wants with it.
She doesn't steal my regular tape measures and has something big and
colorful enough, she doesn't lose it.
"Jay Pique" wrote:
> So this week I installed some cabinets in a new restaurant in
> Rochester and somehow or another my favorite hammer disappeared.
-----------------------------------
For years I would pass out small screwdrivers with a magnet in the top
to prospects when I made a sales call.
Would caution the person receiving the screwdriver that it contained a
pair of invisible legs and would get up and walk away when they
weren't looking.
A lot of screwdrivers disappeared, but NBD, gave me an excuse to make
another sales call.
Lew
"Leon" <[email protected]> wrote in
news:[email protected]:
>
> "Steve Turner" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>>
>> Yep, and no matter how long you put off buying the replacement, the
>> old one won't turn up until you do. :-)
>
> .
> Eggs sackly! Almost with out fail within a day or two.
>
The next time I buy a 2' level, I'm buying one of those key finders for
it. Next time it gets lost, I can walk around pressing the "find"
button.
One of these days, that level will show up again... Get used, lost, and
not show up for another 6-12 months.
Puckdropper
--
Never teach your apprentice everything you know.
"Larry Jaques" wrote
>
> Aw, yer taste is all in yer mouth, Swingy. I have a lovely little pal
> in my Victorinox Classic SD. Handy toothpick, tweezers (works on metal
> and wood splinters), small knife, scissors, nail file. I use it daily.
> I also have chisels, drawknives, box cutters, linoleum cutters,
> machetes, and half a dozen other blades for other things. Twine,
> boxes, nails, teeth, and splinters? This one is just -made- for it,
> and small enough to fit in my pocket without a single problem. I've
> used one for at least 35 years. (none lost came back, either.)
>
I have the same knife. I have gone through several of them. My wife has
washed a couple of them too. But they still work OK.
Ia addition to being a small multipurpose tool, I use it to open letters and
packages. And its most important function, I can trim nose, ear and mustache
hair with it!
Try doing that with a big ole pocket knife.
On 2010-03-21 13:16:36 -0400, Robatoy <[email protected]> said:
> On Mar 21, 12:47 pm, Han <[email protected]> wrote:
> [snip]
>
>> - here is an
>> elderly guy who likes to peel his oranges with a knife ...
>>
> Spiral or quadrant/sectional along vertical axis?
I vote for spiral -- works good on grapefruits, too.
Same little knife. I have two -- lose one and the other appears.
On Mar 20, 2:03=A0pm, Robatoy <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mar 19, 4:21=A0pm, Jay Pique <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > So this week I installed some cabinets in a new restaurant in
> > Rochester and somehow or another my favorite hammer disappeared. =A0It'=
s
> > a small Craftsman brand hammer with a red rubber head on one side and
> > a yellow plastic head on the other. =A0It sits in the hamer loop of my
> > Carhartt pants all day every day while I'm in the shop and I guess I
> > didn't realize just how much I used it. =A0It's perfect for tapping
> > parts into alignment and I absolutely can't live without it now. =A0So =
I
> > sprung for the additional $10 and got myself another. =A0Peace has been
> > restored in my universe. =A0Just thought I'd mention it because it's
> > such a handy tool and I'd recommend it to any woodworker.
>
> > JP
>
> Two tools (aside from shop-based favourites like a speed square) A 2
> pound dead blow and my personal companion,http://tinyurl.com/ygjzj4u
Forgot to mention that I really like that knife because it opens with
one hand.
"Swingman" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> On 3/20/2010 11:57 AM, Leon wrote:
>
>> Boy wouldn't tham make a cool ad for Kershaw. The knife you cannot
>> loose.
>> LOL. Rethinking back, I probably got the Kershaw about 20 years ago.
>> I gotta say, the Kershaw is a fine pocket knife. I has never gotten
>> loose
>> up like the Buck's did.
>
> Too late ... Schrade Walden did that with their "Uncle Henry" knives over
> 50 years ago, in which the "lifetime guarantee" included loss.
Nooooo that is diffferent.... "lifetime guarantee against loss" they
replace it if you loose it. The Kershaw "Can't" be lost. LOL
On Sat, 20 Mar 2010 23:48:37 -0700, the infamous "Lew Hodgett"
<[email protected]> scrawled the following:
>
>"Steve" wrote:
>
>> HarborFright sells deadblows that are neon orange.
>>
>> http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/displayitem.taf?Itemnumber=41797
>
>Can't comment on the orange ones but the black ones will leave a mark.
>
>DAMHIKT
On the protector board, which you hit instead of marking up your
project? OK. So, who cares? ;)
--
If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we
shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.
-- Samuel Butler
On Mar 21, 12:47=A0pm, Han <[email protected]> wrote:
[snip]
> - here is an
> elderly guy who likes to peel his oranges with a knife ...
>
Spiral or quadrant/sectional along vertical axis?
On Mar 19, 9:03 pm, Swingman <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 3/19/2010 9:37 PM, Leon wrote:
> Buy a Swiss Army knife ... that's one yuppie POS that you can't throw
> away without someone bringing it back to you. :(
No kidding. I have tried to carry one of those things, but growing up
with a pocket knife in my pocket (think your first scout knife) they
don't do the trick. I almost never need a tool that does a few things
on a small scale in a small way. I think I would carry a multitool
before I carried one of those. But that being said, the sell more of
those now that ever.
I got my first pocket knife at age 5. I made a large "trimming cut"
on my Mom's drain board, and after I got my hide trimmed pretty well,
the knife was removed from my person.
It was returned on year later with a stiff warning.
I can't imagine NOT having a pocket knife, and I have more than I
would care to admit. I carry two at work. Both vary in rotation, so
it depends on which one I feel like carrying and which ones are
sharp. Almost all my knives will shave hair; they are supposed to
cut!
The small knife in my pocket is my splinter picker, and is used for
any fine work along those lines. It slices easily into fingers and
arms to remove wood, etc. It is great at making wood plugs for screws
when I am doing door repairs. Most of the time its most important job
is to cut the traditional "V" cut into the back of an occasional
cigar.
The larger knife is one I clip to my pocket. It goes in the pocket
with only the clip showing. This knife gets punished. It does light
prying, cuts out old caulk, cuts material banding straps, opens
cardboard boxes with equipment or materials, removes cuts the end of
caulk tubes, etc., etc. It also does ugly utility cutting if needed
such as shingles, felt paper and sheetrock if I am stuck without my
utility knife.
Strangely, with all the new super steels out there and all the
indestructible handle materials, the knife I like to carry on the
weekends (or when I am off) is my old fashioned Barlow. This beauty
is fashioned after a 100 year old pattern of blades, and is of course,
the traditional tradesman work knife. It has D2 steel, and amber
boned saw cut handles and is gorgeous. This one will shave anytime as
I keep it as sharp as I can get it without stropping. This was a
birthday present to me and it is in my pocket whenever I can work it
in.
It's a good time for pocket knives as there is a renaissance in
quality, design, materials and workmanship. There are about 4 makers
out there that are in America that seem to be making good ground with
traditionalists.
Since I tend to have mine for decades, that't a great thing for me and
American business!
Robert
Hi Steve=3D
I like your rockers. Beautiful work.
Smitty
##################################
On Mar 19, 4:18=A0pm, Steve Turner <[email protected]>
wrote:
> On 3/19/2010 4:00 PM, Leon wrote:
>
> > If your luck is like mine, it will turn up almost immediately after you=
buy
> > the replacement. =A0I have had 3 pocket knives and a wrecking bar turn =
up that
> > way. =A0:~)
>
> Yep, and no matter how long you put off buying the replacement, the old o=
ne
> won't turn up until you do. =A0:-)
>
> --
> See Nad. =A0See Nad go. =A0Go Nad!
> To reply, eat the taco.http://www.flickr.com/photos/bbqboyee/
On Mar 20, 2:03=A0pm, Robatoy <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mar 19, 4:21=A0pm, Jay Pique <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > So this week I installed some cabinets in a new restaurant in
> > Rochester and somehow or another my favorite hammer disappeared. =A0It'=
s
> > a small Craftsman brand hammer with a red rubber head on one side and
> > a yellow plastic head on the other. =A0It sits in the hamer loop of my
> > Carhartt pants all day every day while I'm in the shop and I guess I
> > didn't realize just how much I used it. =A0It's perfect for tapping
> > parts into alignment and I absolutely can't live without it now. =A0So =
I
> > sprung for the additional $10 and got myself another. =A0Peace has been
> > restored in my universe. =A0Just thought I'd mention it because it's
> > such a handy tool and I'd recommend it to any woodworker.
>
> > JP
>
> Two tools (aside from shop-based favourites like a speed square) A 2
> pound dead blow and my personal companion,http://tinyurl.com/ygjzj4u
I use a speed square a lot too. I took the extra metal parts off a
big Swanson 12" super-speed square and use it just like...uhh.. a big
square. Very handy for marking long screw lines, squaring up carcases
and such.
JP
"Swingman" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> On 3/20/2010 11:57 AM, Leon wrote:
>
>
> Too late ... Schrade Walden did that with their "Uncle Henry" knives over
> 50 years ago, in which the "lifetime guarantee" included loss.
>
> Since I simply can NOT lose a POS knife, but I can always somehow manage
> to lose the good ones, I availed myself of that a few times early in my
> yoot ... probably why they no longer do it (I'm assuming they got smart
> and quit doing it?)
>
Not only do they not do that anymore, they went out of business several
years ago.
On 21 Mar 2010 06:10:41 GMT, Steve <[email protected]> wrote:
>Chasgroh <[email protected]> wrote in
>news:[email protected]:
>
>> On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:21:36 -0700 (PDT), Jay Pique
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>>So this week I installed some cabinets in a new restaurant in
>>>Rochester and somehow or another my favorite hammer disappeared. It's
>>>a small Craftsman brand hammer with a red rubber head on one side and
>>>a yellow plastic head on the other. It sits in the hamer loop of my
>>>Carhartt pants all day every day while I'm in the shop and I guess I
>>>didn't realize just how much I used it. It's perfect for tapping
>>>parts into alignment and I absolutely can't live without it now. So I
>>>sprung for the additional $10 and got myself another. Peace has been
>>>restored in my universe. Just thought I'd mention it because it's
>>>such a handy tool and I'd recommend it to any woodworker.
>>>
>>>JP
>>
>> ...I love mine, too. It resides in my shop...but when I do a cabinet
>> install job I've got a 2lb dead blow that gets lost regularly, lol,
>> and gets found again or nothing else gets done!
>>
>> cg
>
>cg,
>
>HarborFright sells deadblows that are neon orange.
>
>http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/displayitem.taf?Itemnumber=41797
>
>I'll bet those would be harder to lose. On the other hand if mine was
>yellow with black stripes I could probably loose it.
The problem is that too many tools are neon orange or yellow now. They're
camouflaging each other.
On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 22:03:36 -0500, the infamous Swingman
<[email protected]> scrawled the following:
>On 3/19/2010 9:37 PM, Leon wrote:
>> <[email protected]> wrote in message
>> news:[email protected]...
>>> On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:00:35 -0500, "Leon"<[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> If your luck is like mine, it will turn up almost immediately after you
>>>> buy
>>>> the replacement. I have had 3 pocket knives and a wrecking bar turn up
>>>> that
>>>> way. :~)
>>>>
>>>
>>> I used to buy really nice expensive pocket knives. I always lost
>>> them. I finally gave up and bought a nice but inexpenisve Case, and
>>> I've had it for about 35 years now.
>>
>> I lost 3 Buck's and then about 28 years ago bought a Kershaw, I have not
>> lost it yet. LOL
>
>Buy a Swiss Army knife ... that's one yuppie POS that you can't throw
>away without someone bringing it back to you. :(
Aw, yer taste is all in yer mouth, Swingy. I have a lovely little pal
in my Victorinox Classic SD. Handy toothpick, tweezers (works on metal
and wood splinters), small knife, scissors, nail file. I use it daily.
I also have chisels, drawknives, box cutters, linoleum cutters,
machetes, and half a dozen other blades for other things. Twine,
boxes, nails, teeth, and splinters? This one is just -made- for it,
and small enough to fit in my pocket without a single problem. I've
used one for at least 35 years. (none lost came back, either.)
So THERE! Mr. Swissdisser. Pffffffft!
--
If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we
shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.
-- Samuel Butler
"Jay Pique" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:1a80e3b0-37a7-4b5f-8018-19c2a18eb108@x12g2000yqx.googlegroups.com...
> So this week I installed some cabinets in a new restaurant in
> Rochester and somehow or another my favorite hammer disappeared. It's
> a small Craftsman brand hammer with a red rubber head on one side and
> a yellow plastic head on the other. It sits in the hamer loop of my
> Carhartt pants all day every day while I'm in the shop and I guess I
> didn't realize just how much I used it. It's perfect for tapping
> parts into alignment and I absolutely can't live without it now. So I
> sprung for the additional $10 and got myself another. Peace has been
> restored in my universe. Just thought I'd mention it because it's
> such a handy tool and I'd recommend it to any woodworker.
>
> JP
If your luck is like mine, it will turn up almost immediately after you buy
the replacement. I have had 3 pocket knives and a wrecking bar turn up that
way. :~)
<[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:00:35 -0500, "Leon" <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>>
>>If your luck is like mine, it will turn up almost immediately after you
>>buy
>>the replacement. I have had 3 pocket knives and a wrecking bar turn up
>>that
>>way. :~)
>>
>
> I used to buy really nice expensive pocket knives. I always lost
> them. I finally gave up and bought a nice but inexpenisve Case, and
> I've had it for about 35 years now.
I lost 3 Buck's and then about 28 years ago bought a Kershaw, I have not
lost it yet. LOL
On 3/19/2010 9:37 PM, Leon wrote:
> <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>> On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:00:35 -0500, "Leon"<[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> If your luck is like mine, it will turn up almost immediately after you
>>> buy
>>> the replacement. I have had 3 pocket knives and a wrecking bar turn up
>>> that
>>> way. :~)
>>>
>>
>> I used to buy really nice expensive pocket knives. I always lost
>> them. I finally gave up and bought a nice but inexpenisve Case, and
>> I've had it for about 35 years now.
>
> I lost 3 Buck's and then about 28 years ago bought a Kershaw, I have not
> lost it yet. LOL
Buy a Swiss Army knife ... that's one yuppie POS that you can't throw
away without someone bringing it back to you. :(
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"Steve Turner" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> On 3/19/2010 9:37 PM, Leon wrote:
>> <[email protected]> wrote in message
>> news:[email protected]...
>>> On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:00:35 -0500, "Leon"<[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> If your luck is like mine, it will turn up almost immediately after you
>>>> buy
>>>> the replacement. I have had 3 pocket knives and a wrecking bar turn up
>>>> that
>>>> way. :~)
>>>>
>>>
>>> I used to buy really nice expensive pocket knives. I always lost
>>> them. I finally gave up and bought a nice but inexpenisve Case, and
>>> I've had it for about 35 years now.
>>
>> I lost 3 Buck's and then about 28 years ago bought a Kershaw, I have not
>> lost it yet. LOL
>
> No way! Almost the same story here (except I probably lost a lot more
> than three, and they weren't all Bucks); I was _always_ losing pocket
> knives, but about 18 years ago my mother in law bought me a Kershaw and
> it's still in my pocket today...
Boy wouldn't tham make a cool ad for Kershaw. The knife you cannot loose.
LOL. Rethinking back, I probably got the Kershaw about 20 years ago.
I gotta say, the Kershaw is a fine pocket knife. I has never gotten loose
up like the Buck's did.
Chasgroh <[email protected]> wrote in
news:[email protected]:
> On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:21:36 -0700 (PDT), Jay Pique
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>So this week I installed some cabinets in a new restaurant in
>>Rochester and somehow or another my favorite hammer disappeared. It's
>>a small Craftsman brand hammer with a red rubber head on one side and
>>a yellow plastic head on the other. It sits in the hamer loop of my
>>Carhartt pants all day every day while I'm in the shop and I guess I
>>didn't realize just how much I used it. It's perfect for tapping
>>parts into alignment and I absolutely can't live without it now. So I
>>sprung for the additional $10 and got myself another. Peace has been
>>restored in my universe. Just thought I'd mention it because it's
>>such a handy tool and I'd recommend it to any woodworker.
>>
>>JP
>
> ...I love mine, too. It resides in my shop...but when I do a cabinet
> install job I've got a 2lb dead blow that gets lost regularly, lol,
> and gets found again or nothing else gets done!
>
> cg
cg,
HarborFright sells deadblows that are neon orange.
http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/displayitem.taf?Itemnumber=41797
I'll bet those would be harder to lose. On the other hand if mine was
yellow with black stripes I could probably loose it.
Steve
Robatoy <[email protected]> wrote in news:0654aa18-78a3-4863-8ad1-
[email protected]:
> MY Dutch Army Knife has a small motor which holds a routerbit and the
> battery also powers small wheels which makes the DAK travel across a 4
> x 8 sheet cutting out patterns via GPS and ordinary uploaded G-code
> files....AND it has toothpik.
>
What about the Bokma?
--
Best regards
Han
email address is invalid
Jack Stein <[email protected]> wrote in news:[email protected]
september.org:
> I've been carrying the same Swiss Army knife around for about 30
> years...
Mine disappeared into the #$@%cking hands of the TSA idiocy.
Yes it probably could have been used as a weapon, but still - here is an
elderly guy who likes to peel his oranges with a knife ...
--
Best regards
Han
email address is invalid
Robatoy <[email protected]> wrote in news:6fd02584-2c4d-4f87-8d48-
[email protected]:
> On Mar 21, 12:47 pm, Han <[email protected]> wrote:
> [snip]
>
>> - here is an
>> elderly guy who likes to peel his oranges with a knife ...
>>
> Spiral or quadrant/sectional along vertical axis?
Gewoon op z'n nederlands <LOL>.
My son-in-law teaches math of various kinds in a high school, but he isn't
nearby enough to ask what you meant. Lastig ...
--
Best regards
Han
email address is invalid
On 3/21/2010 10:50 AM, Jack Stein wrote:
> Swingman wrote:
>
>> Buy a Swiss Army knife ... that's one yuppie POS that you can't throw
>> away without someone bringing it back to you. :(
>
> I've been carrying the same Swiss Army knife around for about 30
> years... My most used tool by far. The knives (it has two) are the least
> used part of it. The magnifying "glass" is probably the most used as my
> eyes age, but the tweezers, screw drivers (Phillips and slotted), bottle
> openers and scissors all get used more than the knife blades... Why
> would anyone carry around just a knife?
I have two SAK's ... like I say, I can't get rid of the damned things.
Besides, right tool for the job:
If I need an "all purpose" tool on site on in the shop, a SAK will not
do the job.
For my three piece suit pocket when I'm hobnobbing with office effete
elite, they work just fine .... and I can always find them.
<G>
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"Robatoy" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> AND it has toothpik.
Braggart
--
Nonny
When we talk to God, we're praying,
but when God talks to us,
we're schizophrenic.
What's the deal?
On Mar 19, 4:21=A0pm, Jay Pique <[email protected]> wrote:
> So this week I installed some cabinets in a new restaurant in
> Rochester and somehow or another my favorite hammer disappeared. =A0It's
> a small Craftsman brand hammer with a red rubber head on one side and
> a yellow plastic head on the other. =A0It sits in the hamer loop of my
> Carhartt pants all day every day while I'm in the shop and I guess I
> didn't realize just how much I used it. =A0It's perfect for tapping
> parts into alignment and I absolutely can't live without it now. =A0So I
> sprung for the additional $10 and got myself another. =A0Peace has been
> restored in my universe. =A0Just thought I'd mention it because it's
> such a handy tool and I'd recommend it to any woodworker.
>
> JP
Two tools (aside from shop-based favourites like a speed square) A 2
pound dead blow and my personal companion, http://tinyurl.com/ygjzj4u
On Sun, 21 Mar 2010 10:16:36 -0700 (PDT), the infamous Robatoy
<[email protected]> scrawled the following:
>On Mar 21, 12:47 pm, Han <[email protected]> wrote:
>[snip]
>
>> - here is an
>> elderly guy who likes to peel his oranges with a knife ...
>>
>Spiral or quadrant/sectional along vertical axis?
QS, one-handed, with my katana, of course.
--
If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we
shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.
-- Samuel Butler
On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:21:36 -0700 (PDT), Jay Pique
<[email protected]> wrote:
>So this week I installed some cabinets in a new restaurant in
>Rochester and somehow or another my favorite hammer disappeared. It's
>a small Craftsman brand hammer with a red rubber head on one side and
>a yellow plastic head on the other. It sits in the hamer loop of my
>Carhartt pants all day every day while I'm in the shop and I guess I
>didn't realize just how much I used it. It's perfect for tapping
>parts into alignment and I absolutely can't live without it now. So I
>sprung for the additional $10 and got myself another. Peace has been
>restored in my universe. Just thought I'd mention it because it's
>such a handy tool and I'd recommend it to any woodworker.
>
>JP
...I love mine, too. It resides in my shop...but when I do a cabinet
install job I've got a 2lb dead blow that gets lost regularly, lol,
and gets found again or nothing else gets done!
cg
On 3/19/2010 3:21 PM, Jay Pique wrote:
> So this week I installed some cabinets in a new restaurant in
> Rochester and somehow or another my favorite hammer disappeared. It's
> a small Craftsman brand hammer with a red rubber head on one side and
> a yellow plastic head on the other. It sits in the hamer loop of my
> Carhartt pants all day every day while I'm in the shop and I guess I
> didn't realize just how much I used it. It's perfect for tapping
> parts into alignment and I absolutely can't live without it now. So I
> sprung for the additional $10 and got myself another. Peace has been
> restored in my universe. Just thought I'd mention it because it's
> such a handy tool and I'd recommend it to any woodworker.
Know what you mean. My "pacifier" is a saddle square that stays in an
apron pocket. If it's not there, I go looking for it until it is. I lost
the old one on the last cabinet job, and bought two this time.
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On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:00:35 -0500, "Leon" <[email protected]>
wrote:
>
>"Jay Pique" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>news:1a80e3b0-37a7-4b5f-8018-19c2a18eb108@x12g2000yqx.googlegroups.com...
>> So this week I installed some cabinets in a new restaurant in
>> Rochester and somehow or another my favorite hammer disappeared. It's
>> a small Craftsman brand hammer with a red rubber head on one side and
>> a yellow plastic head on the other. It sits in the hamer loop of my
>> Carhartt pants all day every day while I'm in the shop and I guess I
>> didn't realize just how much I used it. It's perfect for tapping
>> parts into alignment and I absolutely can't live without it now. So I
>> sprung for the additional $10 and got myself another. Peace has been
>> restored in my universe. Just thought I'd mention it because it's
>> such a handy tool and I'd recommend it to any woodworker.
>>
>> JP
>
>If your luck is like mine, it will turn up almost immediately after you buy
>the replacement. I have had 3 pocket knives and a wrecking bar turn up that
>way. :~)
>
I used to buy really nice expensive pocket knives. I always lost
them. I finally gave up and bought a nice but inexpenisve Case, and
I've had it for about 35 years now.
On Mar 19, 4:33=A0pm, Swingman <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 3/19/2010 3:21 PM, Jay Pique wrote:
>
> > So this week I installed some cabinets in a new restaurant in
> > Rochester and somehow or another my favorite hammer disappeared. =A0It'=
s
> > a small Craftsman brand hammer with a red rubber head on one side and
> > a yellow plastic head on the other. =A0It sits in the hamer loop of my
> > Carhartt pants all day every day while I'm in the shop and I guess I
> > didn't realize just how much I used it. =A0It's perfect for tapping
> > parts into alignment and I absolutely can't live without it now. =A0So =
I
> > sprung for the additional $10 and got myself another. =A0Peace has been
> > restored in my universe. =A0Just thought I'd mention it because it's
> > such a handy tool and I'd recommend it to any woodworker.
>
> Know what you mean. My "pacifier" is a saddle square that stays in an
> apron pocket. If it's not there, I go looking for it until it is. I lost
> the old one on the last cabinet job, and bought two this time.
>
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> KarlC@ (the obvious)
Mine is an old, beat up, half broken 16' tape measure. It has a small
body that I like. I haven't seen any like it until I went to the BORG
last week. They actually had them but packaged with a larger 25'. I
might breakdown and buy it and give the 25' away.
Allen
On 3/20/2010 11:57 AM, Leon wrote:
> Boy wouldn't tham make a cool ad for Kershaw. The knife you cannot loose.
> LOL. Rethinking back, I probably got the Kershaw about 20 years ago.
> I gotta say, the Kershaw is a fine pocket knife. I has never gotten loose
> up like the Buck's did.
Too late ... Schrade Walden did that with their "Uncle Henry" knives
over 50 years ago, in which the "lifetime guarantee" included loss.
Since I simply can NOT lose a POS knife, but I can always somehow manage
to lose the good ones, I availed myself of that a few times early in my
yoot ... probably why they no longer do it (I'm assuming they got smart
and quit doing it?)
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On 3/19/2010 4:00 PM, Leon wrote:
> If your luck is like mine, it will turn up almost immediately after you buy
> the replacement. I have had 3 pocket knives and a wrecking bar turn up that
> way. :~)
Yep, and no matter how long you put off buying the replacement, the old one
won't turn up until you do. :-)
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On 3/19/2010 7:15 PM, Lee Michaels wrote:
> I have a big monstosity of a tape that my wife got for me. It is a bright,
> neon color. I found the perfect use for it.
>
> I leave it in the house on top of an enertainment center. My wife can locate
> it, doesn't lose it and can measure anything she wants with it.
>
> She doesn't steal my regular tape measures and has something big and
> colorful enough, she doesn't lose it.
Your wife loses stuff? Hmm, I'm not familiar with that concept... :-)
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On 3/19/2010 9:37 PM, Leon wrote:
> <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>> On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:00:35 -0500, "Leon"<[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> If your luck is like mine, it will turn up almost immediately after you
>>> buy
>>> the replacement. I have had 3 pocket knives and a wrecking bar turn up
>>> that
>>> way. :~)
>>>
>>
>> I used to buy really nice expensive pocket knives. I always lost
>> them. I finally gave up and bought a nice but inexpenisve Case, and
>> I've had it for about 35 years now.
>
> I lost 3 Buck's and then about 28 years ago bought a Kershaw, I have not
> lost it yet. LOL
No way! Almost the same story here (except I probably lost a lot more than
three, and they weren't all Bucks); I was _always_ losing pocket knives, but
about 18 years ago my mother in law bought me a Kershaw and it's still in my
pocket today...
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CW wrote:
> "Swingman" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>> On 3/20/2010 11:57 AM, Leon wrote:
>>
>>
>> Too late ... Schrade Walden did that with their "Uncle Henry" knives over
>> 50 years ago, in which the "lifetime guarantee" included loss.
>>
>> Since I simply can NOT lose a POS knife, but I can always somehow manage
>> to lose the good ones, I availed myself of that a few times early in my
>> yoot ... probably why they no longer do it (I'm assuming they got smart
>> and quit doing it?)
>>
> Not only do they not do that anymore, they went out of business several
> years ago.
Well, don't suppose that those two things just _might_ be related??? :)
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On 3/20/2010 2:11 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> Hi Steve=
> I like your rockers. Beautiful work.
> Smitty
Oh hey... thanks! I've got some more rockers (of a different style) waiting to
be made from the various piles of walnut, mesquite, sugar maple, honey locust,
and hickory that I have out in the shop, but I've got so many other things in
my hair right now I don't know when I'm going to get around to it.
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Swingman wrote:
> Buy a Swiss Army knife ... that's one yuppie POS that you can't throw
> away without someone bringing it back to you. :(
I've been carrying the same Swiss Army knife around for about 30
years... My most used tool by far. The knives (it has two) are the
least used part of it. The magnifying "glass" is probably the most used
as my eyes age, but the tweezers, screw drivers (Phillips and slotted),
bottle openers and scissors all get used more than the knife blades...
Why would anyone carry around just a knife?
--
Jack
"I have not failed. I've just found ten thousand ways that won't work."
-Thomas Edison
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Mike M wrote:
> Hate the number of tools I lost. Fortunately its amazing how many I
> found up in ceilings and roofs and all the places I lost mine.
When I was gutting the bathroom in my first house, built around 1910-20
or so, when I opened the false ceiling, there lay the nicest, large,
high quality steel linesman pliers/cutter I've seen. One of my most
cherished tools. I think of the guy that lost them every time I use it,
or even look at it, even though I have no idea who he was, he is still
moocho appreciated:-)
The moral is, if you are going to lose a tool, make it a high quality
one, so you'll be appreciated for many years to come...
--
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Please don't tell Obama what comes after a Trillion!
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"Leon" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>
> Boy wouldn't tham make a cool ad for Kershaw. The knife you cannot loose.
> LOL. Rethinking back, I probably got the Kershaw about 20 years ago.
> I gotta say, the Kershaw is a fine pocket knife. I has never gotten loose
> up like the Buck's did.
>
+
Geeeeeeez! May I restate, It has never gotten loose like the Bucks did.
On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:21:36 -0700 (PDT), the infamous Jay Pique
<[email protected]> scrawled the following:
>So this week I installed some cabinets in a new restaurant in
>Rochester and somehow or another my favorite hammer disappeared. It's
>a small Craftsman brand hammer with a red rubber head on one side and
>a yellow plastic head on the other. It sits in the hamer loop of my
>Carhartt pants all day every day while I'm in the shop and I guess I
>didn't realize just how much I used it. It's perfect for tapping
>parts into alignment and I absolutely can't live without it now. So I
>sprung for the additional $10 and got myself another. Peace has been
>restored in my universe. Just thought I'd mention it because it's
>such a handy tool and I'd recommend it to any woodworker.
I found myself without the correct density of rubber hammer for a job
and sprung for a real live Nupla with 4 different screw-on heads and a
fiberglass handle. Very nice.
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shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.
-- Samuel Butler
On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:21:36 -0700 (PDT), Jay Pique
<[email protected]> wrote:
>So this week I installed some cabinets in a new restaurant in
>Rochester and somehow or another my favorite hammer disappeared. It's
>a small Craftsman brand hammer with a red rubber head on one side and
>a yellow plastic head on the other. It sits in the hamer loop of my
>Carhartt pants all day every day while I'm in the shop and I guess I
>didn't realize just how much I used it. It's perfect for tapping
>parts into alignment and I absolutely can't live without it now. So I
>sprung for the additional $10 and got myself another. Peace has been
>restored in my universe. Just thought I'd mention it because it's
>such a handy tool and I'd recommend it to any woodworker.
>
>JP
Sounds like a good tool. I don't need to go buy one, though. I just
found one just like it at a new restaurant.....
--DS
On Sat, 20 Mar 2010 23:23:13 -0700 (PDT), Robatoy
<[email protected]> wrote:
>On Mar 21, 1:34 am, "Lee Michaels" <leemichaels*[email protected]>
>wrote:
>> "Larry Jaques" wrote
>>
>> > Aw, yer taste is all in yer mouth, Swingy. I have a lovely little pal
>> > in my Victorinox Classic SD. Handy toothpick, tweezers (works on metal
>> > and wood splinters), small knife, scissors, nail file. I use it daily.
>> > I also have chisels, drawknives, box cutters, linoleum cutters,
>> > machetes, and half a dozen other blades for other things. Twine,
>> > boxes, nails, teeth, and splinters? This one is just -made- for it,
>> > and small enough to fit in my pocket without a single problem. I've
>> > used one for at least 35 years. (none lost came back, either.)
>>
>> I have the same knife. I have gone through several of them. My wife has
>> washed a couple of them too. But they still work OK.
>>
>> Ia addition to being a small multipurpose tool, I use it to open letters and
>> packages. And its most important function, I can trim nose, ear and mustache
>> hair with it!
>>
>> Try doing that with a big ole pocket knife.
>
>MY Dutch Army Knife has a small motor which holds a routerbit and the
>battery also powers small wheels which makes the DAK travel across a 4
>x 8 sheet cutting out patterns via GPS and ordinary uploaded G-code
>files....AND it has toothpik.
I have the model up from that that makes toothpicks as needed.
On 3/20/2010 1:31 PM, Leon wrote:
> "Swingman"<[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>> On 3/20/2010 11:57 AM, Leon wrote:
>>
>>> Boy wouldn't tham make a cool ad for Kershaw. The knife you cannot
>>> loose.
>>> LOL. Rethinking back, I probably got the Kershaw about 20 years ago.
>>> I gotta say, the Kershaw is a fine pocket knife. I has never gotten
>>> loose
>>> up like the Buck's did.
>>
>> Too late ... Schrade Walden did that with their "Uncle Henry" knives over
>> 50 years ago, in which the "lifetime guarantee" included loss.
>
> Nooooo that is diffferent.... "lifetime guarantee against loss" they
> replace it if you loose it. The Kershaw "Can't" be lost. LOL
Wanna bet? ... I'll trade knives with you tonight, and we'll see in a
few days. :)
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On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:21:36 -0700 (PDT), Jay Pique
<[email protected]> wrote:
>So this week I installed some cabinets in a new restaurant in
>Rochester and somehow or another my favorite hammer disappeared. It's
>a small Craftsman brand hammer with a red rubber head on one side and
>a yellow plastic head on the other. It sits in the hamer loop of my
>Carhartt pants all day every day while I'm in the shop and I guess I
>didn't realize just how much I used it. It's perfect for tapping
>parts into alignment and I absolutely can't live without it now. So I
>sprung for the additional $10 and got myself another. Peace has been
>restored in my universe. Just thought I'd mention it because it's
>such a handy tool and I'd recommend it to any woodworker.
>
>JP
Hate the number of tools I lost. Fortunately its amazing how many I
found up in ceilings and roofs and all the places I lost mine.
Mike M
On Sat, 20 Mar 2010 11:03:41 -0700 (PDT), Robatoy
<[email protected]> wrote:
>On Mar 19, 4:21 pm, Jay Pique <[email protected]> wrote:
>> So this week I installed some cabinets in a new restaurant in
>> Rochester and somehow or another my favorite hammer disappeared. It's
>> a small Craftsman brand hammer with a red rubber head on one side and
>> a yellow plastic head on the other. It sits in the hamer loop of my
>> Carhartt pants all day every day while I'm in the shop and I guess I
>> didn't realize just how much I used it. It's perfect for tapping
>> parts into alignment and I absolutely can't live without it now. So I
>> sprung for the additional $10 and got myself another. Peace has been
>> restored in my universe. Just thought I'd mention it because it's
>> such a handy tool and I'd recommend it to any woodworker.
>>
>> JP
>
>Two tools (aside from shop-based favourites like a speed square) A 2
>pound dead blow and my personal companion, http://tinyurl.com/ygjzj4u
...we're birds of a feather, only mine is a Kershaw that hooks onto
the inside of my right pocket and flips out with my index finger and a
flip of the wrist...that blade's dug into *many* strange and wonderful
places!
cg
On 21 Mar 2010 16:47:21 GMT, the infamous Han <[email protected]>
scrawled the following:
>Jack Stein <[email protected]> wrote in news:[email protected]
>september.org:
>
>> I've been carrying the same Swiss Army knife around for about 30
>> years...
>
>Mine disappeared into the #$@%cking hands of the TSA idiocy.
>Yes it probably could have been used as a weapon, but still - here is an
>elderly guy who likes to peel his oranges with a knife ...
I took a trip with Mom and she got doublesearched for her (blunt
nosed) sewing scissors. I sailed through the inspection with a
sharpened 9" pencil 18" from the TSA inspector's eye, in my shirt
pocket. My Victorinox had to be in checked luggage, as did my 4"
Crescent wrench, my 5' blade/philips electronics screwdriver, my
fingernail clippers, and some other tools.
I feel much safer now that babies can't have their sterile bottles on
the airplane, don't you? <sigh>
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shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.
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"Steve Turner" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> On 3/19/2010 4:00 PM, Leon wrote:
>> If your luck is like mine, it will turn up almost immediately after you
>> buy
>> the replacement. I have had 3 pocket knives and a wrecking bar turn up
>> that
>> way. :~)
>
> Yep, and no matter how long you put off buying the replacement, the old
> one won't turn up until you do. :-)
.
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