/diy/ - Do It Yourself

Inherit some of it from older relatives. Buy some of it from garage sales, thrift stores/consignment shops, or ebay. Make some of it - it's good practice.

Tools are for making certain tasks easier, more efficient, or done better. IE you could use your hands to install a fastener but it will be lose.

You need to do the following in any DIY craft:
- Protect yourself - this means safety equipment
- Have your work held, so you have both hands free and out of the path of any tools or other dangerous bits
- Measure accurately whatever it is you need to measure.
- Make cuts or holes accurate to the measures you made
- Make smaller adjustments whatever it is you are working on to make it functional and not a janky mess
- Install and remove fasteners

Unless I forgot something, most tools are just variations on these simple tasks for different sizes, materials, levels of accuracy, speed, or combining stages of a bigger process into a single motion. IE a mortice machine does what a drill and chisel would do in a fraction of the time, and a very fine PCB drill makes the tiny holes needed for electrical components that would be a hassle to do with a standard drill.

>>1182495
Thank you kind friend.