/diy/ - Do It Yourself

Folding hardware knife and lighters from camping. I ended up with quite a few of them.

>>661519
>Folding hardware knife
I never really got the point of those, since regular Stanley/Olfa/whatever knives retract anyways to be safe, so having the form factor of a folding knife just seems like an unnecessary gimmick.

not a tool..

but tool accesdories

drill bits and driver bits

very easy to buy too many sets

>>661544
It is. It just makes you feel awesome every time you flip that nice shiny sharp blade out of its wooden confinement to conquer the world. Or maybe cut some small stuff.

>>661555
Nice trips, but why not just a regular old folding knife then? Admittedly, folding knives are more scary to most people and it's harder to fuck up and accidentally cut yourself (like I just did a couple days ago . . . .)

>>661551

That's a bad one. I always break 1/8th bits (one I use most often when I'm planking) so whenever I see the sets on sale I pick a couple up. End up with a box of new bits I will never get around to using.

>>661555

I bought a couple of folder knifes for use at work and recently purchased a utility folder (Gerber EAB). I want a super sharp edge on a knife I can beat the fuck out of in a very small form factor. A few nice spyderco knives really hit the mark, but they cost more than I am comfortable spending on a beater tool for hard work.

my hammer, 22 oz old ass estwing i found in a chimney. Love it, use it everyday at work

>>661582
OP is asking for what tools you like that you inadvertently end up with a bunch of, not just your favorite tool.

Scalpels.
I carveas a hobby and a razor sharp scalpel is my go to tool.
Then I ended up buying them every time I saw them for different sizes/angles I just didn't need.

Slightly off topic but my Dad compulsively collects 3-phase machinery... He doesn't have 3 phas power, but "one day" he'll have that workshop... He's 65 now.

For me it's wrenches. I love the way a roll organizes wrenches and keep meaning to make a durable one e.g. no plastic. Inevitably the plastic roll will fall apart and I'll start losing them. I finally get frustrated and buy another roll.

I found a great roll maker on etsy but ADD squirrel and procrastination is fun!

>>661596

>ADD squirrel

Thanks made my evening.

>>661518

>>661544
>>Folding hardware knife
>I never really got the point of those

Most folding razor knives come with a pocket clip, allowing you keep it on you at all times.

>>661559
>why not just a regular old folding knife then?

A folding razor knife is as sharp as...well, a razor and the replaceable blade means it's always sharp as a razor.

>>661615
You could always get a folding knife to razor sharp. But yeah, I definitely see the use, especially if you're gonna wail on it and need replacements fast

>>661518
dremel and dremel accessories

as i read this thread i am sitting in my shed. i have 6 standard sized crescent wrenches hung on the wall that i use regularly. 6 more that range from large to monster that are rarely used. 10 are in a pile rusted shut and useless, i call them hammers. 12 older than dirt wall hangers. and more pipe wrenches than i care to admit (because whats a pipe wrench but a sloppy crescent with teeth)

/DIY/... i think i have a problem

>>661544
I use mine for dirty/abrasive work that I wouldn't use my regular folder for. The folding kinds are more pocketable and great for jobsite EDC.

>>661560
>not buying small size bits in bulk from McMaster-Carr

Also, my tool is Phillips screwdrivers. I buy one in every form from every brand in search of the "best"

>>661518
This is my baby
I love her more than my own mother

>pic related

>>661735
> ... Phillips screwdrivers. [...] in search of the "best"

I understand. My best screwdriver is an ancient Klein tool #2 Phillips. I got it in a junk box at an estate auction. It really is quite fantastic.

>>661823
>fave tool
>china brand digital caliper
>top lel

>>661596

Why not try your hand at leathercraft? A roll (if it is what I'm thinking it is) is stupid easy to make.

Go down to a car pick-n-pull type place and cut the backs off of leather car seats. They usually only charge me about 5 bucks for a 2.5x3 foot chunk

>>661717

I'm starting to build a decent collection of bits/accessories but god damn they expensive and almost never turn up at yard sales in acceptable condition

>>661735
Try this company called "Wera". Not quite cheap, but the quality and durability is outstanding!

>>661829

NO SHIT POSTING ON MY THREAD!

If your "input" doesn't help the discussion or offer any kind of viable information just fuck off

>>661865
Hit up estate sales. I've found entire shops of tools in fantastic shape. Great for kitchen stuff, camping gear, you name it. Kind of morbid, yeah, but yard sales are generally people dumping shit they don't want anymore. Estates are generally only picked over by relatives and they leave whatever they don't want, which is most of it. I find the kids aren't much interested in grand ma's sewing equipment or grand dad's garage shop.

>>661869
Yes fag

Segway/continuation of the topic:

Where do most of you get your tools? Buy new or used? Ever just find any tools that you love?

As for mine - top to bottom and left to right
> 8lb sledge - got it as part of my pay for building a set of steps to a porch for a neighbor
>little metal handled angle pein - found rusted to fuck in the bottom of a bucket of scrap metal
> short handle ball pein hammer - found it in a goodwill parking lot
> fuck-if-I-know hammer - flea market find $2
> squared bricker's hammer - given to be by an old friend
> The CLAW! - 13th b-day present from my dad
> 21oz ball pein - under the seat of a scrap yard car
> 4lb Eastwing - bought it at Home Depot
> The Ugly - free box at a yard sale

>>661865
Expensive, but well worth it.

Pic related, my favorite attachment.

>>661518
hooligan bar.
so many different sizes and form factors

>>661518
Woodworker here. Somehow chisels of all shapes and sizes just keep on accumulating.

>>662412

Have about 8 so far, I'm beginning to love chisels too.

Any preferred brand?

>>661871
I used to work with an estate sale company, and I cannot suggest this enough. I got away with more sewing and leather working supplies than I will probably ever need.

>>661612
You have a box of shitty dollar store hammers why?

As for my collection...I don't know. I don't really have an "excessive" collection of anything. I have five electric drills, of various makes...mostly "inherited" from various people over time. A stack of tape measures, because I keep loosing and finding them again.

The only thing I have truly crazy amounts of though are fasteners. Screws, nails, staples, etc...I collect the tail ends of boxes from jobs I do, because clients don't like having half empty boxes of fasteners floating around.

I have enough screws and nails to build a house.

>>661823

Cheers, anon. I completely forgot that I needed to get one for work on Monday.

>>661518
DMMs (digital multi-meters) Actually, meters in general.

I have amassed quite a collection of antique d'Arsonval type meters. But everyone seems to find it necessary to unload their unused/uneeded DMMs on me.

>>662427
Mostly MHG (German company). They are comparable to Kirschen, both price and quality wise.

This framing hammer, built my first house with this.

>>661965
what does it do?

>>663292
>663292
That is clearly a right angle adapter.

that would be lathes, metal lathes, old ones ... drool

and I don't even know what is going on with the drill presses, it is not like I even like them they just seem to multiply on their own

>>663292
are you retarded?

>>663266

That thing is crazy looking... I must have one

>>662981

Thank you much

Would probably be a tie between hammers and tongs. Maybe it's because I'm an amateur smith. Nothing gets me more excited than those two tools.

Hammers for sure.

I also have six welding helmets.

My cheap ass wire cutter/stripper. I have used it countless times in ways its not supposed to be used, and it always seems to be in the same room as me when i need it.

>>661875
"Segue" is the term.
"Segway" is the brand name of a company that over-engineers scooters.

>>663876

Duely noted and mentally corrected

Hammers. Everywhere. And tongs. And old forged pipe wrenches. That reminds me I need a swage block...

>>662821
>You have a box of shitty dollar store hammers why?

I don't, it's a joke. My buddy is a millwright for Ford and another buddy's dad was a millwright for GM
and we tease them that millwrights only know how to beat on shit with hammers, thus their toolboxes
consist of various sizes of hammers and nothing else.

The Millwrights Mantra:

If it's stuck, hit.
If it's still stuck, hit it harder.
If it breaks, it needed replacing anyway.

Nail sets and machinist scale's.

>>661518
Pliers, lots and lots of pliers
I make chainmaille and i've probably got a good 12 pairs of pliers for different sizes/materials

>>664159
It's

"duly"

not "duely"

the more you know

>>665559
Thanks alot

I'm looking to rig my couch with tactile transducers, for that deep bassy feeling that my subs can't output without popping some eardrums. I'm looking at
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for the transducer and
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for the amp. Would this system be scalable to two or possibly three of the transducers for the length of the couch?

>>661518
also hammers, OP.
i've been obsessed ever since i got into blacksmithing and realizing just how many style of hammers there are and how much sense it makes that every single one is the only one to perform it's job perfectly.

also planers, just because every single one you find seems to have it's own character.

most woodworking tools in general really.

>>665559
I can't spell for shit and auto-correct didn't blip it

>>665559
dually noted

>>661518
Wood planes, from luthers planes to no7 jointer.. It's still under control but getting paid might change that