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  1. 05-20-2015, 8:09 PM #1
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    I got a new hand tool....

    For quite a while I have wanted something to measure inside measurements.

    We bought new windows and they are being installed. I am doing the interior trim on the windows. In preparation to manufacture and install new window jambs, I ordered a Lufkin red end folding 6' carpenter's rule with 7" sliding extension.

    It arrived today. I like it!
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    So much to learn, so little time.....
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    We all need excuses to buy new tools.
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    The great industrial designs are simple.
    Good choice.
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    Ken What took you so long , I love my
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    Those are great until your kids break them! Course to be fair I broke my dad's when I was young.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jim German View Post
    Those are great until your kids break them! Course to be fair I broke my dad's when I was young.
    Karma happens
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    Quote Originally Posted by Curt Stivison View Post
    We all need excuses to buy new tools.
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    "Every good project needs a new tool." Official motto (and policy) of my house since I got married in 1969. LOML is at the point where she will ask what the new tool is at the start of any project.

    it broke my heart when I broke my father's folding rule. He died young back in 1968, but he taught me a lot about caring for tools and how to use them when I was young. I bought another folding ruler, and it's never far from hand in my shop, but it isn't my dad's.
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    Today...while in Spokane for a hearing tuneup on my cochlear implant.....I stopped by Woodcraft with my wife and came out with a low angle block plane.......new project to start soon.
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    That's a plane even I love Ken. Congrats to her!!
    Glad its my shop I am responsible for - I only have to make me happy.
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    Did you come back with your wife or did you trade her for the plane? That's what it seemed when you wrote it. I went in with the wife and came out with a plane.

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  14. 05-21-2015, 11:04 PM #13
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    No....I brought her out with me. She's the one who suggested if I needed a tool to get it since we were in Spokane for the day.
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    I have two folding rules. One is an 8 footer, the other is a broken 6 footer, so I made a folding yard stick out of it.

    If you break one, don't throw it away.
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