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Here is a rather basic book on power tools from the series The Art of Woodworking, titled Portable Power Tools available as a free download as a .djvu file http://en.bookfi.org/book/438895 It does have a few nice pictures of vintage power tools and you may or may not find some useful tips.

From the makers of the Ginsu knife? It slices and dices and digs holes....

Another brand I never heard of that appears to manufacture quality tools http://www.egamaster...n/products.html

Another NWS video I found, this time on their CombiMax Pliers, I think they might be stretching it a bit thinking they would replace four tools, but I could see them being handy.

An interesting video comparing Knipex Cobras verses NWS QauttroGripps. Looks like I may have to look into these NWS pliers a little further. I prefer non locking pivots though so I'll be a little more interested in their Classic water pump pliers. NWS ad for QauttroGripps

I have had really good luck using Spax screws on a couple of projects. They can really be used in place of some other fasteners like Tapcons I have been contemplating just carrying an assortment of Spax Unidrive flat head screws rather than carrying a selection of Tapcons, deckscrews and drywall screws in my handyman supplies case. What do you think, good idea or bad?

Which do you prefer and why? I prefer oil less for smaller pinners and nailers because there is a good chance I may be finishing directly after fastening the nailed object and I really don't want to take a chance that I may get oil spots which will lead to fish eyes in the finish, on my project. For larger nailers and staplers I prefer the oil lubricated versions because it is my opinion (I haven't really measured it) that they last longer.

It is not just the volume but the depth as well.

What a shame, I have nothing left in this town any more but franchises. I miss the corner hardware store and always have flashbacks to better times and places, especially when I'm hunting that elusive piece of hardware that the big boxes for all their size never seem to carry. Often times when I' on a job contemplating doing a hardware run, I'll find myself thinking about how will I get to the hardware store that is over a thousand miles away to get the piece that I need before I relieve I don't live in that state any more. When I used to live in Connecticut we had a fantastic hardware store called Meekers Hardware, it is the only operating hardware store on the national historic register. The selection that store had was mind boggling, puts the big boxes to shame and in less than half the space. I guess this kind of fits in with the previous discussion on corporations buying up all the small businesses.

Who do you all like for image hosts? I think we could probably draw more people to the forum if we had more pictures? Flikr is really cool with their image "pools" but there hot linking policy is not nice and every time I try to link one of my images from there, I get an error saying I can't use that image extension.

Slacking off again? In a small town you should be on a first name basis with all the tool merchants in town and they should be telling you all the new tools that come in over morning coffee at the diner.

The internet is a wonderful thing, no matter how much you like something, there is always somebody who likes it more and has dedicated a large portion of their life to creating a website about it.

Do you guys really keep up with the "like this" button people click? I haven’t really been diligent in making use of it, as I'm not really that into statistics, and it seems like a rip off of Facebook.

Alloy artifacts has a wealth of different tool manufacturers histories. I've spent countless hours on that website. Vintage Machinery is another website you could spend a while browsing around on in search of old tools and their histories. http://vintagemachinery.org/

Diggnation used to be a good show as well. Just bout everyone who was on TechTV went on to better things. A lot of Leos co-hosts have had shows on Twit.tv as well.

I listen to his program, The Tech Guy, that he does for KFI

Wow, make me feel like my rural location isn't so far back in the woods...

Stanley like Dewalt trying to capitalize on lighter weight hammers without having to resort to titanium.

I think the popularity of titanium hammers is waning, it would seem that only pros are willing to pay the price for them and half af the pros think titanium is of dubious value. Look at all the new hammers coming out from the bigger companies....

Alloy Artifacts has a good article as well. The article you posted was almost verbatim Wikipedia.

You don't have to worry about RRP laws.

I don't think they fit with the companies user base.

I agree, I can't really watch videocasts while I'm working and all the tool blogs seem to be focusing on them now. There are still a few e-casters who have audio only friendly shows, but none that really cater to tool heads. a lot of radio programs make good listening, I'm a big fan of Coast to Coast and Leo Laporte's shows @ http://twit.tv/

I'm still not a fan of sitting on the john with a phone.

Acme tools put out a new catalog recently.