CALLING SPARKING CHIP

Hey John Peckham‍ and Sparkingchip‍ et al...


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I’m going to have to decline this generous offer.


First off, SWMBO reviews my purchases of tools, well the purchases that she is aware of, and unfortunately the purchase of legacy tools such as an  Avometer or boxwood handled chisels tend to be questioned with comments such as “Well, are you really going to use them?”.


Secondly, I cannot move in my garage at the moment and need to spend a weekend decluttering before considering trying to get anything else in these.


So on this occasion I am going to let someone else have the joy of owning these treasured items, despite having been considered a tool junkie in the past.


One of my purchases that resulted in a severe raising of the eyebrows was a Stanley roofing square, I had a labourer working for me who managed to lose my imperial roofing square that I had had for many years, one evening some years later I was looking on the internet and realised that I could buy a proper Stanley imperial roofing square from a hardware store in the Midwest of America and have it posted to me for a very reasonable rate. About a week later my wife was handed a large L-shaped package wrapped in brown paper with my address on one arm and a line of American postage stamps on the other. The postman said to her that he was considering if he could feed it through our letter box if no one answered his knock on the door.


That purchase still gets commented on, as at that point in my life I hadn’t cut a timber roof for over ten years despite having done it regularly many years ago. To be fair though it is in my van and is a useful general setting out tool.

Sparkingchip:

I’m going to have to decline this generous offer.

So would I because I seem to have most of the implements. I haven't heard of the brand before, but they look good. If you really want to drool over joiners' tools, look at Lie Nielsen examples. If you have reached the stage of your life where the mortgage is paid off and you have spare money, go for them!

First off, SWMBO reviews my purchases of tools, well the purchases that she is aware of, and unfortunately the purchase of legacy tools such as an  Avometer or boxwood handled chisels tend to be questioned with comments such as “Well, are you really going to use them?”.

Secondly, I cannot move in my garage at the moment and need to spend a weekend decluttering before considering trying to get anything else in these.

I use my Avo meter from time to time, not least when I suspect that the batteries in my Fluke multimeter are past their best. And of course I use my chisels, and gouges. I am seriously working at making space in my garage too. Do you remember those puzzles where you move little lettered squares around one at a time? Mrs P gets a flea in her ears when she gives me grief over tool purchases, but I never count her shoes.

One of my purchases that resulted in a severe raising of the eyebrows was a Stanley roofing square ...

If you buy a cheap metric roofing square in the UK you will generally end up with a imperial  square stamped with metric measurements, to correct it you need a hacksaw and a file to cut the ends off and tidy them up, though the bladed won't be quite the right width.


I was sat learning how to do electrical calculations graphically at college one evening.  The lecturer said we need to know the length of the hypotoneuse of a right angle triangle with sides of a length of one, 1.414 I replied,  how the hell can you remember that was his comment. Simple it is stamped into a carpenters metric roofing square so you don't forget it, because it's the run of the hip and what you are doing for the electrical calculation is the same as setting a roof out. 


Technically it is possible to do some electrical calculations with a carpenter roofing square. I was told that back in the days of pounds, shilling and pence some carpenter worked out there wages with a pair of imperial roofing squares and also that slide rules were invented by carpenter.


How many of you use a Mear Calculator?


Andy B.

"First off, SWMBO reviews my purchases of tools, well the purchases that she is aware of, and unfortunately the purchase of legacy tools such as an  Avometer or boxwood handled chisels tend to be questioned with comments such as “Well, are you really going to use them?”. "


I know that feeling!

SWMBO??

SWMBO????


What happened to the head of the house?

(My mum though, always said: your dad might be the head of the house, but I am the neck, and I tell the head which way to face.)