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What is the most used hand tool in your shop?

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#1 · (Edited by Moderator)
Since my wife bought this for me it has become one of the most used hand tools in my shop.

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This is the other most used hand tool in my shop.

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It seems lately everything I pickup I drop. By virtue of the floor moving further and further away these tools see almost constant use.

How bout you guys? What's yours?
 

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On a serious note it would be my 8' pocket tape rule. I carry it with me in my pocket everywhere I go except to church. When you think of it what do you do more than most anything else? Measure.
 
#14 ·
No contest….morning routine come to the woodshop fire up the coffee maker build a fire in winter,turn on the fan in summer…pull my stool up to the table saw open the laptop an sign on to LJS an sip coffee…so i guess coffee cup…or….laptop…..coffee cup would b it yep most used tool…
 
#19 · (Edited by Moderator)
I don't differ much from other contributors - I'll use an engineer
square quite a lot, things like that.

A few things I really find useful though and wouldn't want to be without:

1. dial caliper (I don't have a digital so I won't say digital isn't better)
2. ice pick. Use it for all sorks of poking, scraping and marking.
3. t-handle ball-end hex wrenches
 
#23 ·
I found a 6" combo flat / half round rasp and file in the $0.99 bin at the local hardware store several years back and it is my constant companion for knocking off nibs, splinters, and light shaping work on tenons, etc. Perhaps I should do a tool review on it.
 
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