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Friday, September 12, 2008

The Week in Tools: Toolmonger Top 5

Toolmonger: "It’s been a busy week here at Toolmonger. If you’ve been spending time in the shop — you should! — and you haven’t had a chance to keep up with Toolmonger this week, we suggest you start with these posts, which our readers helped to select:"

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

The new saw from Hitachi had two features that made me really excited, led work lights and a laser guide. Now I'm more then capable of hitting the marks I make on wood without a guide, but that fact that there is moderately affordable saw out there that now has this feature makes me really happy. I'm always a big fan of when companies are willing to acknowledge that some people just don't have the level of rescission needed to use theirs tools occasionally. Now if only a company would make a chop saw that had a laser guide and a built in bagging system that works...

dmxwidget said...

Looking at this weeks selection there are some good finds. I like the idea of this Raspel, or whatever you call it. It looks like a very handy tool that would be useful in the prop shop, or just general shop use. The protable desk looks cool too, but there may be an issue of stability, but it looks rugged. The hackzall looks cool, but it only runs on 12v. But for a small portable tool that can do some basic cutting, its not too bad.

Sam Thompson said...

The Hitachi saw looks pretty nice, but I have never been a fan of the laser guides on chop saws. I never end up using them because I trust my own eyes more than I trust a laser. Lasers on saws seems like a gimmick to me, since you can really line it up just as well by hand. The work light is a good idea, though.

Anonymous said...

i hate the laser guides. I agree completely with sam that they are a gimmick. i have never seen a totally accurate one, and for the money that we pay for the accessory it should be. I would probably get the saw though, i do love Hitachi products and i recently used one of their saws.