Ok just an idea for a tool of the day thread. Doesn't even need to wait a day but here's a start off:
Lets avoid super expensive specialist gear & focus on cheap, home made or clever ideas that help the tinkerer.
My 2 are as pictured.
Samson Vice type grips & a scriber. $7 from the warehouse & $5 from Super cheap respectively. ok hear me out. I was out walking at lunch & remembered the night before tickling something on the grinder (you need a small cheap bench grinder bolted on a bench - wire wheel on one side, stone on the other, not directly aimed at something you don't want chipped) anyhoo I'd too easy to just hold it in your hand. Same with the drill press if it doesn't fit easily in the drill vice like sheet metal. What would be handy is another set of vice grips that lived on the wall right next to these tools so I could easily grab them to hold onto stuff.
Scribers are good for picking at stuff on the lathe or bits you are cutting. plus scribing of course & other things as well. So I now have about 4 in different places & these cheapo vice grips are not too bad & live on a screw in the wall for when I need them.
Job Jobbed!
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