On 8/30/2012 6:01 PM, mike wrote:
On 8/30/2012 3:48 PM, David Kaye wrote:
The other day when I was doing a handyman thing for a friend, she
wondered
why I was holding an ice pick. She was a little unnerved by it,
actually.
Well, I keep an old-fashioned ice pick in my toolbox for a simple
reason: it
makes it simple to start a screw in a wall, door, or other wooden
surface.
Just twist it a few times back and forth and you have a small
starter hole.



But what if your tool requires a large starter hole??

Probably why he carries the chainsaw and mask.

LdB