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Marking In Ink
Some people like to mark their layout lines with a pencil, and others like to use a marking knife — if you’re following the Japanese tradition of woodworking, you might prefer an ink brush like this...
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Striker Carbide Utility Score
A few months ago we covered Striker’s drywall tool, but we overlooked their new carbide utility score. The two tools are very similar in design except that instead of a blade, Striker gives the...
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Dealmonger: Infiniter RS-1 Laser Cutting Guide $13
Lasers just keep getting cheaper — Rockler cut the price of the Infiniter RS-1 Laser Cutting Guide in half. That’s right, it’s on sale for just $13, cheaper than the Harbor Freight version is...
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Magic Stud Finder Plus
We’ve covered magnetic stud finders before, but rather than just indicate where a nail or screw is located, the Magic Stud Finder Plus leaves a little target stuck to the fastener — no marking up the...
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Pocket The Measure ‘N Mark
You’re not going to build a house with the Measure ‘N Mark tape measure and ballpoint pen combo from General Tools, but that’s not the point of the tool. You’d carry one for the same reason you carry...
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Preview: Long Nosed Pattern Marker
Yeah, we’ve posted a lot of FastCap products week and we’re still not done. This is because FastCap is actually cranking out a ton of unique tools right now. Whether these tools stand the test of time...
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Carabiners Make Everything Better
Carabiners make everything better, right? That seems to be the mantra of SnapGate, a company who builds a carabiner into products like tape measures, flashlights, and pens. They sell both plastic...
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Preview: Woodpeckers Giant Square
A framing square just isn’t designed to work with sheets of plywood. Especially when making cabinets, most pieces you need to lay out exceed the length of a standard sized framing square. That’s why...
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Alvin Draftmatics
How many times have you cursed at a wooden pencil slipping endlessly through your greasy-handed grip? Not many? Well, listen up anyway. The Draftmatic is a pencil designed for artists (yes, I know....
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Always Have Calipers On Hand
You carry a pen around religiously, but wouldn’t it be nice to have calipers always handy? If you owned a Messograf caliper pen from Cleo Skribent, you’d always have calipers. Built into the...
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It’s Just Cool: Kuru Toga Pencil
Speaking of mechanical pencils, the Uni Kuru Toga has a nifty little clutch mechanism that rotates the lead a small amount each time it touches the writing surface. This rotation promotes uniform...
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French Curves
Readers will no doubt be disappointed that this post isn’t a racy commentary on Sophie Marceau or some such foreign lovely. But, there’s humor to be had. These drawing aids come from (no kidding) Dick...
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Inka Pen
The specialty pens folks would like you to use in the shop get pretty amusing — take the Inka pen for instance. For $13 you can get the Inka Pen made from 304 stainless steel and carbon fiber with a...
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Whitelines
How exactly are you supposed to improve graph paper? A grid of lines on a sheet of pressed cellulose. It doesn’t get much simpler, but Whitelines has come up with a very clever twist. Instead of...
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Armor For Your Marking Tools
CH Hanson sells two low-cost accessories to protect and enhance your marking tools: Pencil Armor and Crayon Armor. Although I find it hard to justify spending a few bucks to protect a ten-cent pencil,...
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Overpriced Center Finder
When I first saw Eagle’s Marking Center Finder, I thought, “Cool, that works on the same principle as Rockler’s mortise-centering router baseplate.” Looking at the PVC-made jig, I figured it’d be 5 to...
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A Luddite’s Label Maker
Cheap electronic labelers have some downsides — they can be awkward to handle, it’s hard to type on the tiny keyboard, batteries run down at the most inopportune time, and the expensive label stock...
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iGaging SnapDepth
Perpetuating the trend that the name of anything new must begin with a lower-case “i,” Incremental Tools (part of Taylor Design Group, the maker of INCRA Tools) has introduced new measuring and...
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Stand-Up Bolt Hole Marker
Big Foot Tool’s Stand-Up Bolt Hole Marker allows you to mark the location of bolts on plates quickly. Once you’ve dialed the correct bolt size and lined up the plate next to the bolts, you simply...
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Shop File Organization
No, not that kind of file… I’m talking about file folders here, and I like these erasable file labels. I’ve been trying to update and organize my various shop projects, manuals, and notes so I can...
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