Is this odd? I gotta ask.

[Rich Engelhardt]

Hello,
Anyone else have a power tool or tools or accessory, that they simply have to use - just beacuse it's so fun? I don't mean "use" in the sense that it's put to any real use - just use it for the sake of using it.

My "big three" are:
- Hammer drill
- Palm nailer
- Forstner bit - big Forstner bit - and pine.

Ok - I admit, last fall I had to drill some holes in concrete. Yes - I went overboard. I used probably three times as many fasteners as I had to.
It was all because drilling the holes with the hammer drill was so easy it was fun.

Palm nailer - well, I got it free and had to try it out right? LOL! About a pound of nails later,, I almost had it figured out. Kind of like a variation of the Whack -a -mole carnival game .

Forstner bit - oh yeah!! Big old Forstner and a hunk of pine = a smell like a Thanksgiving kitchen

[Glenn Clabo]

Odd? Me thinks someone has had a little extra something in his coffee this morning.

[Sean Kinn]

Yep, you've got the sickness....just like the rest of us. I find I spend time just sitting on my shop stool (5 gallon bucket) admiring a few of my nicer power tools. However, I often pull out my hand planes for an impromptu "thinnest shaving possible" contest. I think my wife is sick of me running up the steps saying, "check it out, it's so thin you can read through it."

[Tim Malyszko]

Yep. I love the palm nailer - almost makes me want to build another deck just so I can use that wonderful tool.

[julie Graf]

I think my wife is sick of me running up the steps saying, "check it out, it's so thin you can read through it."

this made me laugh.

[Tom Walz]

When I get the handplane just right it is magic.

(just reread that - either meaning is correct.)

[John Bush]

Love all my dustmakers but recently bought a MIG. It is a blast to use, as long as I don't burn down the shop!!

[Bill Wyko]

My Lathe, definitely my Lathe.

[James Hart]

Recently (finally) learned how to tune a plane so it takes beautiful shavings. I've sat out in the garage and reduced huge boards into the softest pile of shavings you've ever seen.

Then I lay in it and make snow angels.

I think you're sick.


Jim

[Jay Kilpatrick]

Claw, Warrington Pattern, Ball peen, mini-Sledge, Sledge, etc. There's just something intrinsically rewarding about beating on something... for a purpose, of course

[Joe Chritz]

If you have ever built a wooden foundation for a house a palm nailer is so much fun it should be illegal. 2x8 joist hangers times 216 linear foot of foundation at 16" centers. I think I put in about 1400 joist hanger nails, all over head.

My fun tool to use would have the be the new Kubota. Its not like "really" working.

Joe