Friday, February 3, 2017

2017 Tool Purchases

At the end of last year, I decided to stop buying tools since I should just use the ones that I have.  They are more than enough to build anything and everything that I'm building.

There were a couple of things that I wrapped up to officially stop my buying more tools.

Lie-nielsen Froe that I got to split wood for carving spoons.  So far, I've only used it on firewood.  It works!

Some Nic Westermann carving tools.  The hook knives I made handles for from apple wood.  The sloyd knife was through Lie-Nielsen

Some blue spruce sloyd knives.  Used them a bit on a plum tree branch that was way to hard and gave up.

Some floats from Lie-Nielsen to help with a couple of planes I was going to make.

My Blue Spruce Chisels.  Got the 3 on the left in 2016.

Blue spruce measuring tools (technically 2017).  I've got more squares than I know what to do with.

The levels I had were junk and not even close to level.  Bit the bullet and got stabila levels for the bathroom remodel.

Constantly working on the house and needed something to tote my tools while on the ladder, etc.  This one is from occidental leather and is just a 2" wide belt with a 5in1 tool holster and the drill holster.  Plan to use this in place of aprons which I don't like to wear.

Not really a tool purchase, but I got rid of all the festool systainers and built a cabinet underneath the power tool work bench to hold them.  Saved a ton of space.

Festool Domino XL.  I bought this and got rid of my mortiser.  For larger mortises, it just doesn't make sense in my shop to bring the work piece to the tool

I'm just not using the rotex for what it is.  This probably means it'll get sold, but I have used it on the car...  Got tendonitis from what I think was too much sanding, so really wanted a low vibration sander.  Not entirely sure this is next generation performance, but low profile is nice

Decided to spend all my gift card money on Dubuque clamps.  For stuff that I'm building, the lighter clamps are kinda nice during stressful glue ups.

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