On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 17:35:51 -0500, Silvan
calmly ranted:
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.
Interesting thread. I can think of a lot of contenders for most useless.
However, the tool that clearly takes the cake is the first hand plane I
ever bought, quite a long time before I ever really settled down with the
notion of trying to make interesting things out of wood. I think I bought
it to trim a door in an apartment.
Ditto my first hand plane. It was a jewel from India via the HF store.
I hated that thing for years until I learned to Scary Sharp(tm) it.
It was my first practice iron for the process and I'll be damned if it
didn't teach me how to perfect the technique. After that, I used it a
few times, primarily for taking paint off doors and such. It's a great
toolbox plane and needs to be sharpened after each use, but I wouldn't
abuse my other fine planes to the crap I use this one for. (Y'know,
door trimming, nail finding, the occasional hammer, that kind of
stuff.) It is, however, the only -new- iron plane I've ever bought.
All the rest are wood or old arn. No aloonimum or plastic, please.
I can come up with other tools that really aren't very useful. My hot glue
gun hasn't been seen since I don't know when, and I don't really miss it.
My Crapsman router and table is a tool the use of which is best studiously
avoided.
Ah, yes. The venerable Crapsman routah table. I need to sell mine.
I have no idea why I didn't leave it in the garage at the last house.
Alyouminium top, sheetmetal legs, and not drilled for my B&D routah
pattern. Hey, I know: I'll put it on Ebay and MAKE A MILLION!
My cheap Delta scrollsaw is a close second to this plane for most
useless, poorly-conceived purchase, but even that stupid space waster has
proven sort of halfway useful at least twice. No, the plane wins, hands
down.
My B&D jigsaur is a close second to the belt sanduh.
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