In article .com,
"foggytown" wrote:

And now in a burst of refreshing honesty we're all going to admit to
the most useless, waste-of-money, unnecessary, white elephant, "why the
hell did I ever buy that" tool in our arsenal.

For me it's a B&D "electric file" - basically a needle-nose belt
sander. It's a something that should be handy as hell but it's just
too damned vicious. Touch it to a piece of wood and you have instant
"**** - too much". I've never been able to get anything done with it.
Next?

FoggyTown
"Cut to shape . . . pound to fit."


This may draw a few flames, but the tool I bought that I never use is a
Delta mortiser - the one with the cast iron table. I tested it when new,
and it works fine. But I'm used to cutting mortises with routers and
jigs - faster (for me) and much more clean and accurate. So I never seem
to want to use the mortiser.

PDX David