Ok, I didn’t make them, my wife did. And I guess they ain’y really a “tool”..but what the heck. Good Idea for a new thread.
Jer, here ya go. She made 2 for ya. As you can maybe see, they hold stuff you need often at the doors of your van. She incorporated a 2′ level slot or Mag lite for the photo purpose in the very bottom.
I hang mine from truss head srews just below the back windows. I also ( she forgot to add) have two screw loops on the sides so they don’t flop as you close the door.
They are old canvas drop cloth material, not unused, so pardon the few smudges.
I really like the 4 level holder behind the pass. seat as well, why I have 4 @ 2′ levels with me is a good question..LOL well, one is the funny ball type, one is a digital smart level, and one is a digital angle finder..not JUST levels.
Anyway, I’ll drag these up to ya next weekend and we can trick out your van doors!
P.S. Items in pockets not included (G)
Oh yeah, if the pockets will hold sharp stuff or are too deep, wad up some newspaper in the bottom, or something.
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That's cute. Like they are all sleeping in a row.
Proly easier to carry if you screwed it to a smaller chunk of ply.
Bottom pockets only one big enough for a snake to be comfortable.
Nice work by the DW, but that sure is a ratty looking piece of plywood.
"Put your creed in your deed." Emerson
"When asked if you can do something, tell'em "Why certainly I can", then get busy and find a way to do it." T. Roosevelt
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I used a chopstick as a prybar to open some crablegs. Does that count?
Love it! This'll go well with the truck's ambiance.
Love watching people faces as they stare into the inner sanctum of my vehicle. The way I find things is to not stare directly at the area they're supposed to be in, like you do when you're counting the Seven Sisters. It will appear eventually in my periphery.
I use that technique to rediscover myself at times.
Rosie....you know you're the best. Thanks! You will just have to trust the gods that all will be well when these two oddities of nature see one another in a few days.
***The way I find things is to not stare directly at the area they're supposed to be in, like you do when you're counting the Seven Sisters. It will appear eventually in my periphery.***You ever get into astronomy???that ia s technique referred to as "Averted vision".the receptors in the center of you retina are less sensitive to dim light. so to see dimmer objectse in you telescope (or just your eyes) you look just to one side of where they are sposedta be.I never thought of using it to find tools!!!this could revitalize my productivity!!!or not..
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"After the laws of Physics, everything else is opinion" -Neil deGrasse Tyson
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If Pasta and Antipasta meet is it the end of the Universe???
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according to statistical analysis, "for some time now, bears apparently have been going to the bathroom in the woods."
Those pockets are entirely too large for the tool I made yesterday, I'd never find it again.
1/8" wide furniture scraper out of an old Lenox utility knife blade. Clamped scraper in a small pair of ViseGrips for use.
Working in a 200+ yo museum house. The job at hand is unearthing and re-opening / trimming out a window which had been walled over during a renovation in the 1980's.
The trim treatment at the front edge of the sill, when viewed in section looks like a pair of Micky Mouse ears.
Produced the right spacing and radius by making 4 passes with a 1/2" edge beading bit on the edge of 5/4 stock. (Router table, 2 passes with stock vertical on edge, 2 with stock flat)
Unfortunately, the flat between the ears had an uncut ridge of wood roughly 1/64" or less wide. Snapped most off and finished flattening the area "between the ears" with the 1/8" wide scraper.
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One can always make pocket liners or wallets for smaller stuff. I do that often in tool bags.
Scrapers huh? I've made more than I ever purchased. Bandsaw blades ( big lumber mill ones) Horizontal hacksaw blades ( metal working) sawzall blades, lumber banding, old dull files, handsaws, you name it.
Some of my fine narrow chisels are just sawzall blades ( 1/16" wide) and mill files ( 1/8"). Both pipeorgan work and guitars required homemade tools for some applications.
Just a FYI, don't ever try to hammer out the file teeth by forgeing, they must be ground off, else wise the finished chisel will have inclusions and never really get 'right'. And grinding off sawzall blade teeth , don't over heat that edge, it is often nice and hard just the way it is.Spheramid Enterprises Architectural Woodworks
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Hacksaw blades, the regular long thin ones, make great wood scrapers for veneers etc. I cut mine to size & clamp them into a pair of duckbill vise grips to use.
Wonder if anyone has ever ground down the handle of long sawzall blades so they can be mounted in the saw but with the generally unused teeth being placed at the boot position?
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I think that you have a body of knowledge that is unique in our profession. Ideally a book should bring you money. I would buy one.
I don't know the right format to sell. I'm thinking something like Eric Sloane "Diary of an American Boy." Diary of an american woodworking inventor?"
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yeah, but have you seen how poorly stuff written in crayon reproduces? :)
he would need to find a Spherical to english translator to help him write it.and most of those were fired under don't ask don't tell..
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"After the laws of Physics, everything else is opinion" -Neil deGrasse Tyson
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If Pasta and Antipasta meet is it the end of the Universe???
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according to statistical analysis, "for some time now, bears apparently have been going to the bathroom in the woods."
I would stop short of calling Sphere a national treasure, but He certainly is a Breaktime Treasure. Along with several others. Having worked in many different trades for many years, I am qualified to recognize prodigy.
After destroying threads in the alu body of my spray unit, I used the male end of the old nipple to make a 'tap.'
I used a triangular file to cut a 'v' in 4 places on the threads and went at it.
New nipple went in just fine.