Must-have tool.

[Jay Pique]

So this week I installed some cabinets in a new restaurant in Rochester and somehow or another my favorite hammer disappeared. It's a small Craftsman brand hammer with a red rubber head on one side and a yellow plastic head on the other. It sits in the hamer loop of my Carhartt pants all day every day while I'm in the shop and I guess I didn't realize just how much I used it. It's perfect for tapping parts into alignment and I absolutely can't live without it now. So I sprung for the additional $10 and got myself another. Peace has been restored in my universe. Just thought I'd mention it because it's such a handy tool and I'd recommend it to any woodworker.

JP

[Swingman]

Know what you mean. My "pacifier" is a saddle square that stays in an apron pocket. If it's not there, I go looking for it until it is. I lost the old one on the last cabinet job, and bought two this time.

[Leon]

If your luck is like mine, it will turn up almost immediately after you buy the replacement. I have had 3 pocket knives and a wrecking bar turn up that way. :~)

[allen476]

Mine is an old, beat up, half broken 16' tape measure. It has a small body that I like. I haven't seen any like it until I went to the BORG last week. They actually had them but packaged with a larger 25'. I might breakdown and buy it and give the 25' away.

Allen

[salty]

I used to buy really nice expensive pocket knives. I always lost them. I finally gave up and bought a nice but inexpenisve Case, and I've had it for about 35 years now.

[Dudley Hewitt Squat]

Sounds like a good tool. I don't need to go buy one, though. I just found one just like it at a new restaurant.....

--DS

[Lee Michaels]

"Leon" wrote

Doncha know Leon?

That is an excellent way to find tools!

Works most of the time.

[Lee Michaels]

"allen476" wrote

Mine is an old, beat up, half broken 16' tape measure. It has a small body that I like. I haven't seen any like it until I went to the BORG last week. They actually had them but packaged with a larger 25'. I might breakdown and buy it and give the 25' away. =================

I have a big monstosity of a tape that my wife got for me. It is a bright, neon color. I found the perfect use for it.

I leave it in the house on top of an enertainment center. My wife can locate it, doesn't lose it and can measure anything she wants with it.

She doesn't steal my regular tape measures and has something big and colorful enough, she doesn't lose it.

[Steve Turner]

Yep, and no matter how long you put off buying the replacement, the old one won't turn up until you do. :-)

[Steve Turner]

Your wife loses stuff? Hmm, I'm not familiar with that concept... :-)

[Leon]

. Eggs sackly! Almost with out fail within a day or two.

[Leon]

I lost 3 Buck's and then about 28 years ago bought a Kershaw, I have not lost it yet. LOL

[Lew Hodgett]

----------------------------------- For years I would pass out small screwdrivers with a magnet in the top to prospects when I made a sales call.

Would caution the person receiving the screwdriver that it contained a pair of invisible legs and would get up and walk away when they weren't looking.

A lot of screwdrivers disappeared, but NBD, gave me an excuse to make another sales call.

Lew

[Swingman]

Buy a Swiss Army knife ... that's one yuppie POS that you can't throw away without someone bringing it back to you. :(

[Puckdropper]

"Leon" wrote in news:zfqdnYs8ees2qTnWnZ2dnUVZ [e-mail]:

The next time I buy a 2' level, I'm buying one of those key finders for it. Next time it gets lost, I can walk around pressing the "find" button.

One of these days, that level will show up again... Get used, lost, and not show up for another 6-12 months.

Puckdropper

[Mike M]

Hate the number of tools I lost. Fortunately its amazing how many I found up in ceilings and roofs and all the places I lost mine.

Mike M

[Steve Turner]

No way! Almost the same story here (except I probably lost a lot more than three, and they weren't all Bucks); I was _always_ losing pocket knives, but about 18 years ago my mother in law bought me a Kershaw and it's still in my pocket today...

[Chasgroh]

...I love mine, too. It resides in my shop...but when I do a cabinet install job I've got a 2lb dead blow that gets lost regularly, lol, and gets found again or nothing else gets done!

cg

[Leon]

Boy wouldn't tham make a cool ad for Kershaw. The knife you cannot loose. LOL. Rethinking back, I probably got the Kershaw about 20 years ago. I gotta say, the Kershaw is a fine pocket knife. I has never gotten loose up like the Buck's did.

[Swingman]

Too late ... Schrade Walden did that with their "Uncle Henry" knives over 50 years ago, in which the "lifetime guarantee" included loss.

Since I simply can NOT lose a POS knife, but I can always somehow manage to lose the good ones, I availed myself of that a few times early in my yoot ... probably why they no longer do it (I'm assuming they got smart and quit doing it?)