What - non Festool - tool / workshop related gizmo/stuff did you buy today?

[4nthony]

I finally jumped on the TSO parallel guide bandwagon. I've been putting together some simple benches for my Kapex station and I'm so over wrestling with sheet goods on the table saw. I went with the 30" set and a couple of drop-in connectors. Now wondering if I should sell my Woodpeckers track square and grab a GRS16 or just use the WP square adjacent to the TSO guide if I need to crosscut.

 

[onocoffee]

Every once in a while, I like to stop by the local ReStore to see what they might have. One time, they had some Festool abrasives for ten bucks.

Today, they had these: a Bessey F-clamp, Bessy corner clamp and a wedge - all for ten bucks!

 

[onocoffee]

Got this Bessey F-clamp, Bessey corner clamp and the wedge at the local ReStore today for ten bucks!

 

[Leemstradamus]

I'm not sure we have those out here. I did just drop some unused tools off at Goodwill though.

 

[DanesRFun]

Well,... I guess I'm all in on learning to sharpen and use hand tools... starting with just a FEW chisels! LOL. I introduced myself here in June looking for advice for a sander and dealing with some trim destruction done by a Great Dane... and have learned a ton from reading here. Thank you all! @mino and @Cheese both recommended I get myself a few chisels and a hand plane and start learning. But that would entail learning how to sharpen them! So that trigger took awhile to pull. But slowly I have been gearing up for it... or at least reading about gear... and HOW to sharpen... various systems... honing guides... whetstones, etc... And today, I went all in and started the journey on learning to sharpen.... picking up this collection off fb marketplace for $150. How'd I do? Don't know if any of those 76 + 2 chisels will be worth keeping, but I figure I'll at least learn a lot working on sharpening them! And it'll give me something to make mistakes on, instead of ruining my kitchen knives or any new quality chisels. Some of the lot smells of old dried mold, but really all seems to be in good working condition. But can anyone enlighten me as to what the board with the screwed-on 4 white squares of MDF labelled 30 and 31 degrees "planes" and "chisels" is for?

 

[peter halle]

The board looks to be a gauge to set possibly a sharpening jig for correct chisel bevel. Now if you only had 1 jig it would be easy to determine which/what.

That is a bunch of chisels!

Peter

 

[DanesRFun]

Thanks @peter halle that was my guess, too... but my geometry-challenged brain just couldn't see how it works. But I waded through some videos and finally got it.
For anyone interested, here's a video on making your own "Angle Setting Jig":
And for anyone like me who needs the geometry visual, skip forward to 4:10 on this next video to see how the distance from the edge of the board to the little blocks sets the angles:
Oooh boy, it's going to be quite a learning journey from this cache!