metaljunkie

Welcome to the group Vin. Can't help you with the first two issues and I've miserably failed at the first one. But, I can encourage you to buy as many tools as you can afford and store. Don't cut your fingers off and bleed on the floor, that will piss both of them off.

Thanks for the down load. Gonna be great reference information.

I was out of town when my building was torched, had to drive all night to get home. My cousin noticed the fire when he was driving home from worked and stayed at my house until I got home. I couldn't imagine loosing my home along with my tools. Let me know what you guy's come up with and I'll be glad to pitch in what I can.

Made a couple more pens today. One for my bosses boss who gave me some cedar he cut from his property. The other is bocata wood my wife picked out yesterday from the local woodcraft store. This was the first cedar I've done, don't care a lot for the color but I told the guy I would make him one for giving me several pieces of wood.

Good job on both projects. Love the mobile tool cabinets.

That's great! When he gets old enough to hold a stinger, send him my way for a few weeks and I'll have him welding and using cutting torches, turning metal and wood. On second though I just remembered how wore out I get when we keep the grand babies for a few hours so you better come with him. Lol

You will find out who your friends are when you go through something like that. The odd thing for me was I was always apprehensive about buying tools when I was married because I didn't like arguing over money I spent. After the fire I never felt guilt about buying another tool. Took me about 8 years to get back what I had lost. A little here and a little there. Now I have a better shop that's better equipped. Very thankful my out building was detached from my home, otherwise I would have lost all my pictures and family heirlooms. The good side was The lord sent me a good women that is as crazy about guns and tools as I am.

Ignorance is bliss.

Those would be great working in a crawl space, attic, etc.. Just wonder how they would hold up under extended use and if they would get in the way when getting your hands in tight places.

Yeah, someone probably got a "do it yourself book" for Christmas one year. Read the book and thought now I'm an electrician. Always worried me when I found stuff like that. I had to go thru the whole system to make sure everything was right before I could move on. Some cats are hard to clean after.

Awesome

Let me guess, no junction box. Seen similar stuff too many times myself. I rewired a convalescent home several years ago and was amazed it hadn't caught fire because of the crap electrical work. Wire twisted together hanging on nails in the attic.

Home Depot had the deal going on today in Northern Va.. No money for tools today, except for a few drill bits I needed for a special project and some epoxy.

Posted a picture of my stainless pen below. Your exactly right, stainless is tough. Smoked my carbide parting tool right off the bat. You have to take is slow when turning and cutting the tapers required a lot of patience. Getting the tool marks out took a good sharp bastard file and a lot of jewelers rouge and a lot of buffing. About an 7 or 8 hour job for a writing stick.

Just finished this one about an hour ago.

Here ya go Jimbo.

They are offering other brands also Dewalt, milwakee, ridged, and Makita.

Has anyone seen this Home Depot deal. Buy a combo kit and get a free power tool.

Looks like they will work good for making a gun case. Like I need another one, but maybe able to make something useful out of the cases.

Perfect JimboS1ice. Didn't know about them. Oh goody, another project the wife will be happy about.

What about hollowing the inside plastic and adding gray or black foam rubber. Out line your favorite handgun and mags, use a hot knife to cut out the outline and presto, change O, you have a cool gun case disguised as a power tool. Hmmm, I may have to try this idea out.

Same thing happen to me back in 2006 the day my first wife left. Never could prove anything so it I had to just suck it up. Someone set my out building on fire and I lost everything. A project motorcycle (Honda Dream) my welders, two riding lawn mowers, my daughters atv and mine, all my tools, torches, you name it. Fortunately my home owners reimbursed me for most of my tools, but the motorcycle and atv's would not be replaced because they ere suppose to be insured under another policy. Took me two years to get the heart to clean the mess up. Still pisses me off to this day when I think about it.

Never heard of this so I'm a little bit skiddish. Sounds too good to be true.

I always enjoy the "How to video's".

AWESOME!!!! Love it when the little ones succeed in something they like doing. Be careful though, racing ATV's one day and before you know it she will be climbing in the drivers seat of a dragster or Winston cup car. Best of luck to her. Hope to see her on national tv in the future.