How Many Times Have You Said It?

The HF metal cutting bandsaw is a gem. It’s not the world’s best saw by any stretch but there is no metal cutting bandsaw close to it for $200. This goes to Sean Jones’ point. If you had a million bucks it’s not the saw you’d get, but if you don’t have a million bucks it’s the saw you CAN get.

The HF brushless dust collector is another gem without any other option in its price range.

One thing I love about knifemakers is that we are all tool hoarders, but we’re tool hoarders on a budget and vastly more concerned about bang for the buck than brand elitism. It’s about getting the job done, not how you got there.
 
Yesterday at 1:54 PM
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Hey!!! I RESEMBLES THAT!

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I thought ever'one had one!?

The technical name for that is a "fitsall"!

Back to the orginal question!

Someone keeps moving the line on me![/QUOTE]
DanF said:
"This is the last tool/piece of equipment I will need, then I'm set."
Someone keeps moving the line on me!
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You have to understand the difference between wants and needs.

You needs a file and a hacksaw and you can make a knife,
you wants to speed up production and make it easier on yourself,

The later of the two is why we keep finding ourselves at the tool store.

I learned a long time ago!
1. Buy what you can afford.

2. Buy the best and you don't cuss nearly as much as the cheap alternative and you don't have to buy more than one!!

3. The last rule in the shop is more of a prayer. Lord, when I die please don't let my wife sell my tools for what she thinks I have in them!!
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Welcome to the insanity of knife making!!! It took me three years to figure out knifemaking is not really a word!!! th2KFWAXBR.jpg The two words seem to flow off the tongue as one word!!!!
 
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I’ve used the “this is my last tool” line on my wife many times. Sometimes I believed myself but I don’t think she ever belived It.

A few years ago at woodcraft with my wife, she got bored while I was shopping and she threw her name and my name into a raffle for a free lathe. Turns out, I won a small lathe. About $800 later I had chucks and tools to be able to use the free lathe. That $800 (or more) was all her fault. :)
 
I have all I need.
bladegrinder said:
Yea, that's got to be one of the funniest thing's I've ever read.
He forgot to include a few things I've noticed about that place every time I go in there,
1st...as soon as I open the door I'm overcome with the pungent smell of Chinese card board and rubber.
2nd...every isle I go down it seems like there's some guy in his 90s pushing an empty cart just gazing with what seems like no other better place to be with his poor frail wife in tow.
then I no sooner turn to go down another isle and there's another old fella with an empty cart with his poor wife in tow.

I'll tell you...if you ever see me around 30 years from now perusing the isles of a Harbor Freight with an empty cart dragging my wife behind me...…….wait till I get outside and just finish me off. you'll be doing both of us a favor.

edit: occasionally I'll see one of those free flashlight's in their carts.
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lol or maybe a blue tarp
 
Every once in a great while the wife will come out to the shop to "visit". I swear she has a photographic memory for what was there last time and what is new!
I've learned not to tell all and she has learned not to ask $$'s. I could always "visit" her quilting cabin..., .

My HF 1x30 has lasted many years, best $29 I ever spent.
 
I used to say that all the time.

I have eventually learned I'm just fooling myself. I just ordered my 3rd 2x72 grinder and I have no place to put it. Been having to put wheels on just about everything.

If only I could get a surface grinder, I might just be done...... :eek:
 
I honestly believe the saving grace for me has been my small shop space. Every tool has to be valuable enough to me that it is worth more than the space that it occupies. This has forced me to be more creative with the tools I have and to buy the tools I actually need the most.
 
C Craft said:
Yesterday at 1:54 PM
#11



Hey!!! I RESEMBLES THAT!

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I thought ever'one had one!?

The technical name for that is a "fitsall"!

Back to the orginal question!

Someone keeps moving the line on me!
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When I was in Australia it was called a nutf****r or a shifter in polite society. Here in NZ they are called a crescent (from the dominant brand name years ago) and yes everyone has at least one. I have them from 6 inch up to the size you show there.
 
We recently did interviews at my company for apprentice pipe fitters, a guy in his 20s was handed a Cresent wrench and asked what it was, I was told he looked at it...turning it around and kept looking at it with a kind of confused look. so the boss say's, WELL, what's it called? -----------he said it was a "Twisty Wrench". yes a twisty wrench...he wasn't hired. :confused:
 
I actually have one of them fitsall, that is about 36" in length. Whoever made wasn't proud enough to even put there name on it. But, I have put a four foot cheater bar on it and it never broke!!!

Dang glad when that nut finally popped loose, I was about to give it up!! Had my son running a torch on the nut, and I wedged myself between a nearby post and had my back on the post and had both feet against the wrench.

Finally got the neighbor to hit the cheater bar with a sledge. By that time, that nut finally broke, I was so tired I could barely breath. We sit down and consumed a few cold beverages and discussed how long this story was gonna stick!! Side splitting laughter.jpg

Note* there are key parts of this story that are true, the names have been changed to protect the innocent!! OK so there was no innocent, so guess the names were changed for other reasons!! ashamed.jpg
 
bladegrinder said:
We recently did interviews at my company for apprentice pipe fitters, a guy in his 20s was handed a Cresent wrench and asked what it was, I was told he looked at it...turning it around and kept looking at it with a kind of confused look. so the boss say's, WELL, what's it called? -----------he said it was a "Twisty Wrench". yes a twisty wrench...he wasn't hired. :confused:
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I had to explain righty tighty, lefty loosey. To someone my age! Sad
 
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