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Reader Question: Help With Pinewood Derby?
TM reader Brenda wrote to ask where she might find help with teaching her son to make a Pinewood Derby car. And it’s a great question: Where does a parent who’s not that handy turn to give their kids...
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How Do People Learn About Tools?
TM reader Gil tipped us off to the Fail Blog post excerpted above. (To see the entire work, visit the original site.) And like most Fail Blog fodder, it’s pretty damn funny. But it really got me...
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Reader Question: Best Book For A N00b Machinist?
My father was a machinist, but he never got the chance to teach me much of the art before he died in 2003. I couldn’t keep his Bridgeport mill or metal lathes since they were just way too big for the...
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Reader Question: Are Panel Saws Still Relevant?
The track saw has matured from its humble beginnings as circular saw with a straightedge to being called a table saw replacement by some companies. That doesn’t ring true to me, because a table saw is...
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Reader Questions: Replacement Patio Cushions
It’s springtime here in Ohio, and with warmer weather comes the reintroduction of our patio. In summer 2007 we contracted out for a new backyard paver patio. It’s held up well despite the sports-sized...
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Reader Question: Ever Forget You Own A Tool?
Is it possible that you get to a point where you own so many tools that you forget what you own? Or is it just the ravages of old age taking its toll on my mind? A few days ago, I decided to round...
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Applications For Cordless Angle Grinders?
Question: What do you do with your cordless angle grinder? I’ve thought about picking one up as it’d be handy for quick weld clean-ups performed with a portable wire welder, but I wonder what drives...
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Do You Really Need A Laser On Your Circ Saw?
Yeah, we’ve made all the “frickin’ laser” jokes we can think of, and Sean even drew up a comic making fun of manufacturers’ predilection toward slapping lasers on anything and everything. But as we...
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First Tool Use Recommendation: A Bicycle
If you’re a Toolmonger, I’m guessing you’re mechanically inclined. But do you remember how you started to learn how to use tools? Do you remember who showed you how to use them, or did you learn on...
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World’s Newest Skinniest House: Ingenious or Idiotic?
Last month here at Toolmonger we ran across Jakub Szczesny’s Keret House design for the world’s skinniest house. Coming in at roughly 156 square feet, the entire house literally will fill the empty...
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Question: Auto Interior Cleaning?
As if it were not obvious to the most casual observer that I have an 18-month-old in every other aspect of my life, it would appear that she has managed to drop her milk behind her car seat onto… the...
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Milwaukee to Expand Hand Tool Line
With DeWalt jumping into the hand tool business with both feet, it’s not surprising that we’d see Milwaukee’s interest in expanding their current power tool range increase as well. But a press release...
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Reader Question: Tool Belts
It’s a rare occasion that we have a need to wear a tool belt around the shop — because, well, we’re around the shop, the very base of all our tool power. However, working at other people’s houses or...
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Are Leaf Blowers Worthwhile?
For many, this time of year signals the yearly struggle to keep the yard clear of leaves for a few more weeks while you can still see the ground (and ominous wintry clouds plot from a distance). For...
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Reader Question: What’s Your Favorite Inexpensive Cordless Drill?
We’re in the process of putting together a killer cordless drill comparison for release a few months down the road, and we’re looking for some reader input. Specifically: What’s your favorite...
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Creating Custom Tool Grips
I saw a post over at Lifehacker today touting the old idea of slapping a little heat shrink tubing around a tool and shrinking it down to create a custom “grip,” and that got me thinking about the...
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So You Lost Your Toolbox Key: How Screwed Are You?
I received a couple of emails this week asking about the process of getting replacement keys for toolboxes. I’ve had a little experience with this on my own, but to offer a real answer, I headed to...
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Reader Question: Combination Square Overkill?
I have a cool little simple combination square that sees lots of use around the shop in terms of everything from basic metal fabrication to hanging pictures. I inherited mine, but you can buy one...
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The Try Square
I’m sure a lot of Toolmongers already know what this is and what it’s for. But a friend who found one of these in a toolbox he bought asked me what it was, so I thought I’d share here as well, just in...
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It’s a Spud Wrench
Creating tools for specialty applications isn’t something tool companies started a year ago. Hell, most modern tool conglomerates started out looking to solve just one problem. Milwaukee originally...
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