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• Hog Ringer Pliers

  
  Toolmonger: The Week In Tools — Authority: 547
  Unused hog rings kinda look like rounded staples. When you squeeze them with hog ringer pliers they form a ring capturing whatever happens to be in the center. They’re used in all sorts of applications, like fencing, landscaping, mattress and automobile seat construction, and even holding sausage casings closed. ...
  2 days ago

• DVD Review: Forgotten Hand Tools by Chris Schwarz

  
  The Craftsman's Path — Authority: 107
  Next in the series of reviews of DVD’s from the SmartFlix Woodworking University, this time I review the DVD: Forgotten Hand Tools by Christopher Schwarz. This DVD is one of several done by Schwarz in conjunction with Lie Nielsen Toolworks .  I have previously reviewed another in this series: Coarse ...
  3 days ago

• Hot Or Not? Black & Decker Mastercart Tool Box

  
  Toolmonger: The Week In Tools — Authority: 547
  The Black & Decker Mastercart (model 17330605) is a slightly redesigned version of the Keter Mastercart that I bought several years ago at either Kmart or Walmart (mostly different colored trim: mine is gray, and the B&D’s is orange). Mine has held up well, although I have not abused it much: it mainly holds ...
  3 days ago

• Best Buy, Kohl, and Wal-Mart Black Friday 2009 Sales

  
  Blogoncherry — Authority: 447
  Wal-Mart Black Friday 2009 sales, Kohl Black Friday 2009 Sales Best Buy Black Friday 2009 sales. Black Friday ads for retail majors like Wal-Mart, Target, Best Buy, Staples and Kohl have surfaced ahead of the November 27.Click here to see Target Black Friday Ads!A year after a Wal-Mart worker was trampled to death by ...
  3 days ago

• What’s In Your Kitchen Tool Drawer?

  
  Toolmonger: The Week In Tools — Authority: 547
  I don’t know if it’s a regional, cultural, generational, or whatever thing, but when I was growing up there was always one drawer in the kitchen that had tools in it — things like a small hammer, regular pliers, a screwdriver or two, a tape measure, and a random collection of fasteners including nails, screws, ...
  4 days ago

• whatzit

  
  jeff peachey — Authority: 107
  Ursula Mitra, fellow conservator in private practice here in NYC, and an old friend (remember making phase boxes together at Teachers College in 1990?!?) sent me these images of a possible bookbinding tool.  She acquired it from a bookbinder who didn’t know what it was. She describes it as follows: “I ...
  6 days ago

• Klenk Geared Ratcheting Select-A-Bit Screwdriver

  
  Toolmonger: The Week In Tools — Authority: 547
  While leafing through my “Ideas for TM Posts” file, I found a page I had cut from the Feb. 2009 issue of Popular Mechanics that mentioned the Klenk DA86450 Select-A-Bit™. It’s a ratcheting screwdriver with a 4:1 gearing produced by holding the nose piece (which causes the bit to turn four times for each ...
  6 days ago

• Cole-Bar Hammer

  
  Toolmonger: The Week In Tools — Authority: 547
  The Cole-Bar Hammer is a new multi-purpose tool with a ratchet that locks at any angle between 0° and 180°. This means the hammer can be opened into a full crow bar, used as a square, or used as an angle tool. In addition, the ratchet section is removable for use as a socket wrench, or cat’s paw. Apparently not ...
  6 days ago

• Tool Pr0n: Would You Pay $280 For A Brace?

  
  Toolmonger: The Week In Tools — Authority: 547
  Many of Bridge City Tool Work’s tools make it into our Tool Pr0n category, but their limited edition CT-16 palm brace has got to be one of the most frivolous offerings since the $100 plumb bob . Bridge City Tool Works crafts the brace from steel, stainless-steel, and aluminum and then chromes the outer chuck, ...
  6 days ago

• Switch blade: Two-in-one utility knife

  
  The Hardware Aisle — Authority: 136
  Im always impressed when a tool manufacturer takes a simple, everyday tool and completely redesigns it to create a much more versatile, useful tool. Case in point:Stanley Tools just added the TwinBlade Utility Knife to its popular--and ever-growing--line of FatMax Xtreme hand tools. At first glance, the TwinBlade ...
  1 week ago

• Stanley Proto Introduces New Ratchets

  
  Toolmonger: The Week In Tools — Authority: 547
  You may not see news like this on Reuters or CNN, but we love reading about the latest tool releases — like these new ratchets from Stanley Proto. In 1/4″, 3/8″, and 1/2″ sizes, these ratchets are narrower than Proto’s previous offerings so you can cram ‘em into tighter spaces. They’re also quick ...
  1 week ago

• Suitable for woodworkers (and cooks?)

  
  The Hardware Aisle — Authority: 136
  It’s never too soon to start gathering ideas for holiday gifts, and this one comes from my friend Ashton, who loves woodworking so much he makes his own guitars and who writes, “For under $50, in most cases, a good Japanese saw is a must have." I had never heard of these tools, but I see from pictures that a hand ...
  1 week ago

• From the Flickr Pool: Wrench Space

  
  Toolmonger: The Week In Tools — Authority: 547
  This is a man with his priorities in order. Reader Lowside has finally figured out what to do with all that wasted space behind the garage door. As far as I can tell, this solves two problems. The first is he never has to try to cram them back into a molded plastic container — a big plus in our book. The other is ...
  1 week ago

• Spline Wrenches On The Cheap

  
  Toolmonger: The Week In Tools — Authority: 547
  Spline wrenches are cool because you can turn a variety of different fastener heads such as hex, partially rounded hex, 12pt, square, external Torx, and yes, even spline heads, with one wrench.  If you’re willing to give up the ratcheting feature in the Stanley Proto and SK spline wrenches, you can get a set of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Nice Plier Work From A Tool Named SAL

  
  HomeFixated Daily DIY — Authority: 124
  There are a few good songs out there that are not only foot-stomping catchy but also tell a nice tale while they’re at it. Johnny Cash’s A Boy Named Sue is one of them. Take a moment to listen to it and then perhaps you’ll know why we thought of it when we went to do this review of a tool named SAL. SAL (or ...
  2 weeks ago

• Ideal Ratch-A-Nut

  
  Toolmonger: The Week In Tools — Authority: 547
  Part of the fun of doing TM posts is the discovery of tools I’d never seen or used. The Ideal 9-in-1 Ratch-A-Nut Screwdriver is one such beast. It’s a ratcheting screwdriver with 1/4″ and 3/16″ slotted bits, #1 and #2 Phillips bits, 1/4″, 5/16″, and 7/16″ nutdrivers on one end, plus a ratcheting wire ...
  2 weeks ago

• CobraHead Weeding and Cultivating Tool

  
  Toolmonger: The Week In Tools — Authority: 547
  The CobraHead® Weeder and Cultivator (modestly called “The Best Tool In Earth®”) can apparently do almost everything “with ease”: weeding, cultivating, scalping (?), edging, digging, furrowing, planting, transplanting, de-thatching, and harvesting. Its “steel fingernail®” blade works in almost any soil, ...
  2 weeks ago

• One Dead Blow + Eight Tips = New S-K Kit

  
  Toolmonger: The Week In Tools — Authority: 547
  I keep a couple of crappy dead blow hammers around the shop, but this new kit from S-K blows ‘em away. The hammer features a non-slip “flanged-butt” design — stop snickering, it’s just bigger at the bottom so you don’t accidentally throw the hammer. And the kit includes eight color-coded screw-on tips in ...
  2 weeks ago

• Hot Or Not? Craftsman Personalized Tools

  
  Toolmonger: The Week In Tools — Authority: 547
  We’ve seen this before: Craftsman will etch names, slogans or whatever else on the side of each piece for a super-customized set of special “heirloom” tools. You know, like M&Ms, but a crap-ton more expensive. But every time I see these, I get a different vibe. Sometimes I love the idea, and sometimes not so ...
  2 weeks ago

• Cheap-Ass Tools: Three Pry Bars for $6

  
  Toolmonger: The Week In Tools — Authority: 547
  Are these awesome pry bars? I don’t own these, but I’m gonna guess not. So if you’re prying the tops off nuclear reactors or something, this one might be more your speed. But if you’re just looking for a way to keep your screwdrivers from ending up bent or otherwise molested, they sound pretty great ...
  2 weeks ago

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