Saturday, September 08, 2007
Toolmonger’s Top 5: The Week In Tools
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"
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Some fun ones this week. The pocket saw seems very cool, similar to an industrial pocket knife. The digital range finder seems rather standard, although congratulations to Bosch on going smallest in the world. The Gloves and router bars seem like a good idea. My favorite however was the flameless heat. That's very cool to have the ability to heat things up in that controlled a way.
I like the tools in this issue, especially the pocket saw. I find the Toolmonger posts to be pretty interesting because I don’t know much about what’s going on in the way of tools, and every so often I see some cool thing that people have on a call, and I feel dumb that I don’t know what it does. At least I can look at some of the new things being placed on the market to get an idea of what people like to carry with them,
I enjoy the concept of the brass spacing blocks as a theory, yet some how I feel like I would loss them in the shop due to the hustle of building. The digital rangefinder seems as though they have added some nice features, yet they still haven’t put together all the things that would make it a perfect tool for theatrical riggers. I wish someone would come out with a range finder that has three axis of measurement (a laser level meets a range finder). In theater we could use this to find distances from the plaster and center line by simply placing apple boxes on the plaster and center line (or any object you wish to catch the beam). You could find your point on the deck and shoot a laser up to the grid all in one step. No more tape measures. How did people rig without lasers?
I enjoy the concept of the brass spacing blocks as a theory, yet some how I feel like I would loss them in the shop due to the hustle of building. The digital rangefinder seems as though they have added some nice features, yet they still haven’t put together all the things that would make it a perfect tool for theatrical riggers. I wish someone would come out with a range finder that has three axis of measurement (a laser level meets a range finder). In theater we could use this to find distances from the plaster and center line by simply placing apple boxes on the plaster and center line (or any object you wish to catch the beam). You could find your point on the deck and shoot a laser up to the grid all in one step. No more tape measures. How did people rig without lasers?
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