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What is the most useful tool you ever made?

dougw

There are many great topics that relate to tools, and there are endless numbers of tools to discuss, but inevitably we run into situations where we don't have a good tool for the job and have to cobble a tool together to complete the work.

I make some little tool to do a specific job all the time, but I never stop to think whether it is a remarkable tool. I don't even document that  I made a tool.

I don't think we ever asked the question - what is the best tool you ever made, so I'm asking now. If you are like me it is going to take some time to recall something significant. In fact I am posting this question before I even have my own answer, but give it some thought. I suspect the answers will be interesting.

My most recent tool was just a wooden needle to apply ink to a 3D print - much more precise than a paint brush. I'm sure when I scan through some of my projects, I will come up with something better....

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  • What a good (and true) challenge (it really is), but let me give you a word from my people: "at home craftsman is like nowhere else". You will certainly not understand the meaning of the statement, it is a bit difficult, (?!?!?!!?!??!?!?), but I will give an example like this: a bricklayer builds a house for another, but at his house you will still see cracking walls.

  • in reply to me_Cris

    it seems to be universal saying - in my country for example is a variant that can be translated like this "shoemaker is running barefoot". BTW. Google translator is much better than I have anticipated - when presented with this saying text, it translated it into "the shoemaker's children are ill-shod", so it looks like legitimate English saying similar meaning...

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  • in reply to me_Cris

    it seems to be universal saying - in my country for example is a variant that can be translated like this "shoemaker is running barefoot". BTW. Google translator is much better than I have anticipated - when presented with this saying text, it translated it into "the shoemaker's children are ill-shod", so it looks like legitimate English saying similar meaning...

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