Welcome to My blog, we're talking about what I think are the 10 most useful tools when it comes to woodworking and building stuff in general.
let's jump right into it, things to us to join me. well, let's get started.
All right, so we're starting simple, a tool that's going to be useful, basically, no matter what you do and that is going to be.
Best Top 10 Hand Tools For Every Tool Box 2021
1 Olfa knife
Now, this particular knife is incredibly useful because it has a bunch of really cool features. One of my favorite features is that it has these pride bar things in the back here. You won't believe how useful having this on you at all times can be, you can use it, talking pen cans, you can use it to screw on flared screws.
This locking mechanism on my track saw guide, which is operated by just big, flat head screws, and can lock in place. So super handy to not have to go grab a separate tool.
I have my knife on me at all times. This particular knife is an alpha knife. It has a twist-lock mechanism, more twists, opens up, and then you can lock it in place, so it's securely locked in. so, you know, it's not going to slide on you and potentially cut you.
It has these standard breakaway blades that you can just break away and then replace once they're out, that we don't need to sharpen the blade. First of all, this is still the knife.
2 Machinist Square
With his little pride bar thing total number 2 is going to be, this little machine is square. Now, this little guy is super useful just because of its sheer size. So, you know with you at all times, it's a real communion tool to how we need to transfer some markings from the top of the board to the side or the other side.
It's much easier to one of these little ones than to use one of these big ones also because this one you can carry in your pocket. I'm also found this super useful when you need to align hinges to a door.
So you can use side and but the hinge up against it. so, you know, it's square against the side of the door.
3 Tape Measure
Now is the next one is kind of obvious, but number 3 is my tape measure.
Now there's a couple of reasons why I like this particular one. The first reason is that it's only metric. That means that We can make a mark on both the top and bottom side and this particular one.
Also on the back, not the same thing would apply with only having an interest in your tape measure that way.
We don't have to look at the millimeter side if you don't care about it, but I feel like you should care about it. because metric is so much better.
also, for me at least, I find it much more convenient to be able to hook to take measures at the end of the thing you're measuring from, then having to line up one of these things.
That is kind of up to personal preference, but especially on longer objects. We find this much more convenient and it retracts, so you don't have to like pull that.
4 Lead Pencil
One of these cookie blood pencils now, yes, these also depend a little bit on the type of work that We do, but especially for me, where We usually do find your detailed work.
It's super convenient for a pencil that always leaves the same thickness of a line, no matter how much you use it, compared to a regular pencil that you need to sharpen, and the line gets thicker and thicker.
Over the time you use it now, We find using one of these gives you a more consistent and precise result, just because it's easier to deal with the line that states the same thickness than one that varies in size over time.
Also, this thin line is much easier to erase after facts. We think worth mentioning is that these tools aren't necessarily arranged in order of most to least useful or anything like that.
but the thing worth mentioning is that the four tools that we talked about it so far are the only four tools that they used to carry on me at all times. Now We don't cry tools on me anymore at all, because We have our workshop now, and all my tools are in the drawers but when We used to do.
We used to do carpentry in a place where We didn't have my toolset up the four goals that We used to carry with me at all times were a knife.
The tape measure, the machine is square and click the pin, and all the other tools would live in a tool cart that is used to carry around with me moving on to our own lives, right?
5 Combination Square
We are going to be this combination square. Now, these things are really useful. It does a lot of the same stuff as my little machine is square, as in, it's a square but this thing can do a whole bunch of other things as well.
You can set it to a dimension you want on the scale and then that dimension is this surface to the end.
So you can use this theme to market parallel lines to the edge board, or you can mark a bunch of locations that are the same dimension away from the edgy board.
It also has this angle, which, if you said against the board, will create a forty-five-degree angle. If you want, you can also take this whole thing away, and then just use this part as a regular metal ruler that can use to mark up stuff on a flat surface, and by pulling this thing to the end and tightening it. 90 degrees to the surface that this thing sits on pretty useful.
6 Countersink Drill
We are talking about tools that We would have with me at all times. Now, this tool, We would always go with me as long as I bring a drill.
This thing comes, and what is it? it's a conversation, thinking, drilled it. That means that you can drill a hole and conversing the whole, All in the same operation, which saves you so much time. We use this for every single hole drill.
If the screw is going to be countersunk, and you can see it right. One of them lives on Andrea basically, all the time. These things come in different sizes, and you can adjust the length.
So if he's got it set up properly, you can just drill the holes and then driving the screws. We used it on where We built this work table and there are so many screws
7 Nice Hex Drill bits
Next, the list is this, here a small shoulder plane this particular one is a combination plane between a shoulder plane and a chisel plane, where we can take the front part off.
Here's actually a good example of the use of that knife.
because to take it off, It has this flat head screw here that We can do.
with using this guy, so now We can get inside the corners, and if We put this thing back on, this thing all the time to make nice, sharp jumps on things like.
The edge of my workbench, or furniture when we don't want to break out the router and put it in router bit and deal with all of that hassle. this thing running across the edge a couple of times leaves is super nice and sharp, Jennifer.
This particular one is maximizing the shoulder plane. We don't use it for what it's intended for, what the small size We like it if it's swelling in my hands.
8 Glue
So let's talk about the one thing on this list that isn't necessarily a tool, more of a consumable, and that is a glue. glue is crazy useful.
Especially if you combine that with the activation spray that it comes with, which just speeds up the hardening time of the glue. Now you can get these super glues in different because some of them are thicker, and some of them are thinner.
You can also get them at different times that you have until they set up this one is a tech 7brand but Seager can save you so much time and it can also get you out of a lot of trouble.
See, a glut can work as a clamp if you want to hold two objects together to have kind of a weird shape, that isn't. Easy to climb together and apply a little bit of glue, and then some wood glue We built a chair, We use glue to put together the entire frame. then We use screws to hold everything together properly.
9 Clamps
We love this file with a clamp quick grip, so advances as you do this, you can also speed up that process and then do the rest by hand.
these aren't necessarily the hardest clamping clamps, but they're the most convenient, especially if you're holding something and you're trying to climb in hand.
This is much easier than those twisty claims that you end up having to hold with one hand and then twisted the other one. Anything you learn when you start making stuff is that you can never have enough clamps. So if we need all coming out there once the response, and we had some new clubs, maybe, and be more than happy to do.
10 Drill Bit
so the last one on the list is this little guy, hold on. this little guy, it's a drill bit. now, a good quality drill bit can save you so much time and trouble, just because it won't strip the heads of the screws and switching to write, typescript will save.
Even more time now, we only use short screws and we realized that I'm lucky because we only live in the part of the world where pork screws are the most common ones and other parts of the world still use other types of screws.
Now, we like these long bits, because they gave me a little bit more space away from the hand. they're one piece, so you don't need an extension or anything like that.
The nice thing is that I basically only ever need three different types of bits lit, twenty that we used for basically eighty percent of my work, and then we have at 25 that we used to sort of bigger screws and 10, they just sort of really small screws.so if you're thinking about converting to torques.
We use it every day. I'm curious to know, do you read my list, or do you feel like there's an essential tool that I. Got to talk about, or is there a tool that you know of that does the job, that one of these tools does just better We? are curious to hear your thoughts?
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