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.
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…
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
Without a doubt, Swiss army knife. The one with Philips head, a couple of flat blades, small and large knife blades, an awl, scissors, toothpick, and the most used tweezer.
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.
Square and a pocket knife but I too have one of those "reachy-grabby" tools and it has retrieved many items from behind the "littlest workbench that can't."
Hand tools…. block plane, chisels (mostly for paring), fine tooth pull saw (for quick cuts w/out firing up DC)
Hand held power tools…. A small cordless driver, my 12v cordless drill, 5" ROS
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