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If you are like me you have either forgotten where you left your pencil or it is on the other side of the shop.
Most office supply stores sell “do-it-yourself” refrigerator magnets, or business card magnets.
Cut a few to the size you like and space them strategically around the shop.
Cut slices off that will match the side of your pencil and fasten them to the pencil.
Then put the pencils where you have put your magnets and they will be handy.
Lee
-- No piece is cut too short. It was meant for a smaller project.
15 comments so far
CharlieM1958
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posted 541 days ago
Great idea, Lee!
-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"
Brad_Nailor
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posted 541 days ago
Thats absolute genious! Now if I could just remember where I put my magnets….
-- David, South Windsor, CT "I love the smell of sawdust in the morning"
jockmike2
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posted 541 days ago
Velly good idea, wise man. mike
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itsme_timd
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posted 541 days ago
Neat idea, I’ve got about 100 pencils in the shop… somewhere.
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Scott Bryan
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posted 541 days ago
That is a good idea. I am like Tim. I have a bunch of pencils in the shop but I can’t find any of them. Making individual magnets and putting them on each tool is certainly an idea that has merit.
Thanks for the post.
-- With God's help all things are possible- even woodworking. Woodworking is not just a hobby, it is an (expletive deleted) expensive hobby.
Dick, & Barb Cain
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posted 541 days ago
Great idea!
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ryno101
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posted 540 days ago
Clevah Clevah Clevah…
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DAN
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posted 540 days ago
good tip,... now where did I leave my car keys ?
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Napaman
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posted 540 days ago
great idea!!! will it hold my mind? (when i have lost it)
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Grumpy
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posted 539 days ago
Nifty idea.
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sharad
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posted 538 days ago
A very novel idea to solve the menacing problem
Sharad
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Boardman
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posted 538 days ago
I just came across magnetic strips, about 1/2” wide by 24” at the local BORG. It can be cut to length. I was thinking of using it for magnetic catches on cabinet doors, etc. I’d just use the small metal plates that come with cheap magnetic catches. The strips would be less obtrusive than the usual magnet-in-a-metal-holder set up, and since it’s an adhesive strip, a lot easier to install and position.
Pie
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posted 282 days ago
LOVE this idea. I have something similar but for a diferent application. I will probably post pics etc later today. CHEAP, EFFECTIVE, Simple (CES) we need more of these.
-- Pie
cabinetmaster
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posted 282 days ago
Absolutely a brilliant idea. Now where did I put that magnet? Oh I got them everywhere. Now I just need pencils….................LOL
-- Jerry--A man can never have enough tools or clamps
degoose
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posted 136 days ago
A nurse is asked why she has a rectal thermometer behind her ear.. and she says.. sht some a^hole has my pencil.
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