Friday, January 08, 2010
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"
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The Center Mark looks like a very useful gadget, maybe not for theater but more for home use. The biggest problem I can see with it might be a sales feature for them - it only works on one light at a time, and frequently when you have one light you have a lot more than one. You'll need to buy one for each light you are working on as a group, so you might have to put a lot of money into having a stock of them in case you need a bunch at once. I've also never seen a professional installer either use something like this or for that matter even measure.
The Knife ruler looks like it really should never have made it's way past the concept stage. I could imagine buying this tool so that I could have a metal precision ruler, but given that the Leathermen or the Gerber seem to be almost standard issue, I can't imagine there ever really being a need for the knife part of the tool. The fact that this is also just a knife and a tape measure really does nothing to encourage the purchase of this tool.
This week of Toolmonger has a few cool things. The knife and ruler is cool but it looks like the quality of materials and how it’s made might be questionable. I can see some use for this tool but it is one of those tools that are only good for a one specific need limiting its usefulness. It might not be worth the cost because of its limitations. The dry wall tool is pretty cool. That it locates the lighting can in the drywall but all it really is a high-powered magnet, but nonetheless it is a cool tool. This week was an ok week for Toolmonger. I hope that next week there are a few cool tools I would be interested in investing in.
That depth gauge looks suspiciously like a digital caliper...
One that they took the usefulness out of and added a spring in its place. Most calipers have this function already, it's just on the other end of the tool...
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