Losing tools

If your like I am it will turn up. Most likely it will be where you already looked. I sometimes say if it was a snake it would have bit me.LOL

-- I don't make mistakes, I have great learning lessons, Greg

There goes another tool for the shop gremlins.

-- W James Brokenbourgh Custom furniture maker http://artisticwoodstudio.com/

you’ll find it when your not looking for it.

-- Ike, Big Daddies Woodshop, http://www.icombadaniels@yahoo.com

When I loose a tool it usually shows up right after I buy a replacement.

-- Rich, Cedar Rapids, IA - I'm a woodworker. I don't create beauty, I reveal it.

You always find it in the last place you look for it. Do you know why?

Because after you find it…you stop looking

-- Accuracy is not in your power tool, it's in you

After you replace it…you will find it the next day…at least that has been my experience.

-- Larry "Work like a Captain but Play like a Pirate!"

You did check in your apron pocket, right?

If it is not there, have you been working off a step stool lately, like maybe some high up shelves. I loose more pencils like that.

I get real embarrassed, frequently, when something shows up missing. I start reflecting on who was in the shop that normally is not. Someone who might have liked it better than I did. Then it shows up right where I was using it last and embarrassment sets in.

-- Making Sawdust Safely

I misplaced my L&N Low Angle block plane almost a year ago; thought It had accidentally been tossed out with some trash. After recently building a shed and doing a LOT of shop clean up, I found it! it was like Christmas had come again. It had slipped off the shelf I keep them on and was wedged between the shelf and the wall.

-- "Everything that is great and inspiring is created by the individual who labors in freedom" -- Albert Einstein

I NEVER lose anything. However, quite often I can’t find what I’m looking for.
One of the nurses at the VA had this neat pen/pencil holder hung around her neck. It was an advertising freebie.
Asked if she had any more and she gave me hers. I haven’t had to search for a pencil since I started using it.
But Walt, a square won’t fit.

-- Gene 'The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.' G. K. Chesterton

I could remember where I left a tool 6 months ago if it were misplaced before I was OD on Topamax. I haven’t taken it since 2004. My short term memory has come along way back. I couldn’t remember what I was writing while I was trying to write it down on Topamax, I still loose tools that I have moved a few days ago. Very frustrating. I doubt it there will be a full recovery from that crap:-((

-- "some old things are lovely, warm still with life ... of the forgotten men who made them." - D.H. Lawrence Wake Up America!! Please read; http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/01/26-0

have you loked for it in the toolboxes/drawers/cabinets

or maybee you are so glad for it that you sleep with it,
then look under the pillow

I agree with Jim, another one to the Gremlins. Maybe they wanted a cleaner shop..

-- Tim, Missouri ....Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what the heck happened

I have a few tape measures, multiple utility knives and a million pencils for that exact reason.

-- Every neighborhood has an eccentric neighbor. I wondered for years "who was ours?" Then I realized it was me.

Topamax said: “I still loose tools that I have moved a few days ago. Very frustrating. I doubt it there will be a full recovery from that crap:-((“

Topamax, Don’t know your age but, at my age I suffer the same syndrome. I’ve resigned myself to it’s consequences. :-)

-- Gene 'The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.' G. K. Chesterton

About 6 months back my 1/4 inch SK socket set came up missing. I Can’t find it any place. Is driving me nuttier. It is a real nice set. Cost a whole lot when I bought it 25 years ago.

-- That was not wormy wood when I started working on it.