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This thing rocks!

Thank you!! They’re an amazing company.

Those look really great. As a builder I will eventually get into a Ridgid press tool for copper and Pex 2. Of course a Pex 1 tool is in order too.

I find better deals with Milwaukee with press tools and Milwaukee and DeWalt for snakes. I know Ridgid has the biggest selection in plumbing power tools, but are they that much better?

Wow. I have been thinking reconditioned one like yours. the 1 9/16” is just right and the fatter 1 5/8” is simply too heavy other than straight down.

OK, 14” pipe wrench and at least decent RIDGID or Brass Craft powered snake! what else?

Is it dying? It’s very very old

I would retire that and put it in a museum. I have a 35 year old USA Skilsaw which I may retire that has some Larry Haun provenance. I might try and score (if I could) a Larry Haun beamsaw from his crew. The legend used power tools sparingly by our standards but besides Skilsaws, the one tool he said all need besides a hammer, he had a few cool Makita big saws and the rare HPT nail gun. But handtrucks like yours were used by tradespeople in the day and regular people in their homes. That’s history.

Here’s the three with my friend’s unreachably expensive handmade J.W. Van one of a kind 24.75” scale sunburst strat with David Gilmour type EMG setup but wired the way my friend likes it. But my guitars are always around $500 give or take a couple of hundred and a similar JW Van would be $3,000. I couldn’t ever afford one. If I had three grand, I would get tools beyond the five grand I spent already for building houses, so let’s see within the three grand range; 1) Makita corded handheld planer $200 2) DeWalt 20/60v. Flexvolt joist drill $300 3) Mikwaukee large SDS Max rotary hammer $400 …those are necessary but also: Dewalt thickness planer $700 Makita beam saw for outdoors $900 …and various lighter weight hand tools like titanium stuff for a few hundred

Strats are great durable beasts. My main guitar is the simple made in Mexico Classic 50’s strat. I also have a cheap Ibanez Artcire AS73 hollow body for jazz orchestra class but I was terrible at sight reading, lol.

The experienced guitar builders/repairers say it’s easy and I should replace all the binding on the one side of the neck and the remove all the frets and simply put in new frets. But I am only a carpenter working towards being a contractor, not a professional luthier which is the most specialized woodworker I can imagjne possible. Simply refret the whole guitar because of a chip on the binding on the guitar neck and a chip of rosewood broken off of it? Lol!

Damage is small but involves: 1) replacing plastic binding on guitar neck 2) filling in chipped out wooden section with East Indian rosewood wood putty which I may have to make 3) refinishing part of wood guitar neck to match the yellowed binding on this old guitar Thoughts? (I only do heavy construction and don’t usually deal with woodworking on the micro level.

Here’s the small scale of the Ridgid nailgun against the Milwaukee, Makita, and DeWalt nailguns.

I use this Ridgid palm nailer when my big Milwaukee nail gun won’t fit into small spaces like nailing in Simpson brackets holding joists onto beams.

Ridgid is great stuff, I have their palm nailer and I hook it up to my DeWalt compressor.