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Rad Knives makes the original, this is a clone made by some Chinese maker I'm assuming. There's plenty of them online and various versions, DH Gate, AliExpress, eBay, etc.. You can find them fairly cheap, I paid $53 for this one, but the seller has another one on eBay for around $48

The Makita bit holder stays on my impact, I think the Makita gold bits are better than most other bits I've used.

Some nice purchases guys, wish it were me buying all these nice tools. Not bought today but received today, two new "tools" for me. I use knives daily, more times during the day than I could count, they are invaluable tools to me...

Ryobi is the only company that that has tools and batteries that work across the entire platform, from old tools and batteries to new...regardless of type, be it Lithium or NiCad.

What I did today was let my daughter use some tools... glue gun and heat gun, to do some crayon art...

It's a good concept, as long as the breakaway part is not running into your material it probably won't break on its own. My confusion comes from this: Why do you need a breakaway blade?? Just buy two blades, they're cheap enough. I can't remember when I've ever bought only one recip blade, I always buy packs or more than one blade, and when one is toast I put another one in. Where is the necessity for a breakaway blade?

I wonder if there's enough members who use meters and test equipment enough to merit a section like this. I use meters every day, sometimes multiple times a day, sometimes multiple meters a day, and would be happy to see a meter/test equipment sub-forum. Would be a good spot for tips and advice, showing off meters, etc.. I could offer a lot to a section like this

I've done two recalls with them, palm sander and old blue drill. Both times were easy and painless.

Find someone who does bumper stickers, those things last forever it seems...

I'm not as crafty as you guys, I don't have a really cool home-built stand. I just use the one that's made for the saw. My stand idea is to fold up my stand and hang it on the wall, out of the way. I could build a miter station but only if I wanted to never park in the garage. I tried to kick my wife's car out of the garage but that idea didn't fly as far as I had hoped. No space for anything that won't hang on the wall or store over the bench. Actually works out pretty good with the saw and stand hanging on the wall...saves space and keeps them easy to get at. Otherwise I'm sure they'd be buried behind a workbench or hidden in a closet somewhere...

Welcome back!!

I've never worn one down where there was little or no material left, typically the sandpaper just gets filled to the point of being smooth...and basically useless. I figured out that cutting away that used, smooth area exposed fresh material, it works so I ain't complaining.

Plus...all of those tools are the wrong color anyway, they probably don't work right...

No, the true problem with gateway tools is that they open up a whole universe where everyone expects you to be able to create everything and fix everything for free... "Well gee, isn't that why you have all of those tools??" says all of your friends and family when you frown at their requests...

Only problem I see in that photo is the mixing of brands...you can get your ass kicked on a tool forum for that type of blasphemy!! I'm with Conductor, the biggest problem is finding money, that shit doesn't grow on trees!

So...I've been tossing an idea around in my head for some time, and finally put it into effect. Every time I need to buy more flap discs I get mad because I don't want to keep buying more flap discs. Even buying the cheaper ones, the price stacks up after a while. So, the idea I've been tossing around is a way to rejuvenate the old ones, which, I came up with a decent solution I think. I took a pair if snips and cut away the 1/8" or so of used sandpaper, exposing the cleaner stuff underneath. Tested it out and it works great, the disc is like new. Now at least I can get more life out of a disc before I have to buy new ones. Anybody do this, or similar, to rejuvenate old discs?? And, is it "disc" or "disk"...I can never figure that out...

Congrats. Just wait, pretty soon you're gonna find that a two-car garage isn't a two-car garage when it's filled with tools and stuff. You'll be playing "Tetris" will all of your shit like I do with mine...it's both fun and not fun at the same time. And...if those white walls stay blank very long you're gonna have to buy some prints from me to decorate...just sayin'...

I don't think it's amazing at all...might be a bit jealous maybe, but not amazed. He has the fantastic tools that allow him to build fantastic stuff, he should be building fantastic stuff. If you invest that kind of money into something you better produce damned-good results, it's your obligation to produce excellent results.

Hey, don't get me wrong, maybe I stated it a little harshly. My opinion of people who show their stuff is simple: If you have a shop like that you're not going to impress me by your equipment or your skill. Impress me by doing the same stuff without all of the expensive equipment. If I had a shop filled with expensive equipment my projects better look like the greatest professional in the world did it, otherwise all of that gear means nothing. Anybody who could work in that kind of shop would produce better stuff, it's the nature of the beast. Want to impress me? Build a table from scratch with nothing but old hand tools, like the Amish do. Create a metal masterpiece with a forge and hammer, like old-world blacksmiths used to do. Building that shit with a shop full of fancy expensive equipment won't cut it for me. Hobbies are hobbies, but when you have a shop like that it's not a hobby anymore...you're supposed to produce big projects that look awesome, that's why you have that kind of shop. What I do at home is a hobby, whatever I build, whatever I fix, it's all just some schmuck in a garage with some tools. Extreme Woodworker, Rich, Chris...what you guys do is more than a hobby. You guys should be building the shit that we want to buy, you're that good and that's what you have those awesome shops for. I can't expect any less, and I shouldn't have to. Not trying to offend, probably not choosing the right words, but it is what it is. I don't impress easy, not that kind of guy.

Sad to say, I'm not impressed. Anybody with that kind of money and those kinds of tools better be cranking out some of the best shit we see, otherwise they're just a big douchebag with too much money and too much time. Sorry, but we all make great things with what we have, we all "make do" most of the time. Give any of us a shop like that and the stuff we make better look ten times better than it does now.

I did this...

That looks exactly like something I'd do...

Well...that beats the shit out of the bed frame I made for my daughter. Good work!!

Damn, that's a frickin' awesome price. I bought mine before X-mas, when they were doing the "buy the saw and get the stand free" deal. Paid roughly $180 for the pair. Saw by itself used to be $169...wonder why the price dropped...

It's the first tape that I've seen with the finger-stop cutout on it, really cool feature.