How many tools today?

I know a project is complete when all my tools are out.

-- Clint Searl.............We deserve what we tolerate

I find I have a different list.. tools I put up and those, I leave right there, outside. in the age or resin handles and aluminum squares, a lot gets rained on with little trouble. I still feel some guilt that some tools get care and others wear, but the time saving is huge. In my shop, the frustration comes at putting away four of the same tool or worse not finding one on the shelf the next time. I don’t router much, but have four, 7 circular saws, countless drills etc. and more planes than I ever use. .. I need to clean up the shop or go buy more tools, yeah the latter sounds fun.

I can’t begin to count!!!!!!!!!. I am constantly putting tools away- just so I know where they are when I use them next. Some times I have to pull them out a second time later in the project, but that is okay because I like to know everything is there in its place at the end of the day.It bugs me when I lose one piece of a set – like a drill, transfer punches, sockets, etc. I am missing a spring caliper from the wood lathe and I think I swept it up with the chips and I will empty the barrel looking for it next week!!

You have a good list there and it sounds typical of any good project!!.................Jim

-- Jim Jakosh.....Practical Wood Products...........Learn something new every day!!

+1 on what Clint said! Somewhere under that pile of drill bits, rulers, squares, scredrivers, mallets, brads, brad nailers and scrap lumber…I have a workbench.

I cannot afford one of my prescious planes to fall off my bench, so when i see stuff moving one of them toward the edge, I start clearing off the tools I won’t need in the immediate “now”, that way I am constantly getting, and putting away as I work.

-- Love thy neighbour as thyself

hmm, spent some time today scraping some epoxy off a tabletop and doing some sanding: ROS, dust vac, dust collector, shop vac, slotted screwdriver, card scraper, scraper plane, low angle jack plane, 5/8 chisel, utility knife, various grits of sandpaper, rags.

-- Rob, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario

here we are at 1:00 am
just finished working for today

will clean up tomorrow
and start again

-- david - only thru kindness can this world be whole . If we don't succeed we run the risk of failure. Dan Quayle

David – do you EVER sleep! Now I know how you make all those wonderful projects so quickly.

-- Learning is like a door. Open it and there are hundreds more on the other side. Thanks for all the lessons!