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!

 

[onocoffee]

@DanesRFun I recently got the Katz-Moses Universal Sharpening Jig. It's actually quite a nice product and has built-in stops for both 25 and 30 degrees for chisels or plane irons. And it also comes with an attachment that helps you align it for a variety of other angles.

 

[DanesRFun]

@DanesRFun I recently got the Katz-Moses Universal Sharpening Jig. It's actually quite a nice product and has built-in stops for both 25 and 30 degrees for chisels or plane irons. And it also comes with an attachment that helps you align it for a variety of other angles.

Oh that does look very slick!

 

[festal]

@DanesRFun I recently got the Katz-Moses Universal Sharpening Jig. It's actually quite a nice product and has built-in stops for both 25 and 30 degrees for chisels or plane irons. And it also comes with an attachment that helps you align it for a variety of other angles.

Mine should be arriving today as well. We'll see how well it works. If it works well, going to sell my LN one

 

[Cheese]

I still enjoy the Woodpeckers system from ease of set-up and use.

 

[Cheese]

I purchased a couple of Stihl Systainers to help organize the garage area. ACME tools has these available in 137, 237 & 437 sizes. I use the 237 to hold owners manuals, tools, extra chain, extra edging blades, extra poly line, yada yada. The 437 holds a lot of very bulky things like extra straps, extra blower nozzle extensions and extra lawn mower blades.

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[luvmytoolz]

@Cheese I love that other manufacturers embrace the systainers, except of course Makita who still supply the classics's as standard!

Once you've had a T-LOC, there's no going back to a classic! ;-)

 

[onocoffee]

@Cheese I love that other manufacturers embrace the systainers, except of course Makita who still supply the classics's as standard!

Once you've had a T-LOC, there's no going back to a classic! ;-)

Is it just me? Because I got some of the Classic Systainers several months ago and I really kinda hate them.

 

[luvmytoolz]

Is it just me? Because I got some of the Classic Systainers several months ago and I really kinda hate them.

No, the whole world hates em!

My BS105 sander is in it's original massive classic, I'm seriously thinking of buying a large T-Loc for it. Good idea back in the day, but horrible to use now.

 

[Cheese]

No, the whole world hates em!

My BS105 sander is in it's original massive classic, I'm seriously thinking of buying a large T-Loc for it. Good idea back in the day, but horrible to use now.

People loved the Model T when they were the first affordable automobile…not so much now.

 

[Crazyraceguy]

The TS75 that the company owned, years ago, was in a classic. I hated that thing. The concept was fine, the utility was fine, the latches, not so good. The best thing you can say, is that the T-loc were backwards-compatible, making those connection points still useful.

 

[Michael Kellough]

Is it just me? Because I got some of the Classic Systainers several months ago and I really kinda hate them.

Yes, T-locks are a huge improvement.

To make the classic Sys tolerable you can file, scrape, and lube the sides of the pockets where the green latches go.
Sometimes you have to round the tabs on the green things too.

Also, you really only need to unfasten the latches on the side, and then slide the top box to the rear leaving the front latches upright.

 

[Cheese]

My classic Systainers have all been relegated to holding parts like electrical parts, plumbing fittings, wire...yada yada anything that doesn't need the latches to be locked.

 

[onocoffee]

Actually bought the Woodpeckers SandStand a couple weekends ago when Woodcraft was having a 20% off a $40+ order (at least I think that was the discount). Either way, it brought the price down from the MSRP of $120 to $98. Made a plate from black walnut to mount the SandStand on my workbench and dropped in the old ES 125 EQ. Haven't used it much as I just finished this the other day.