Tool porn

Double whammy of awesome!

@Soul What you doing with it? Looks like a great bit of metal.

Lots of stainless, but I’m tempted by the sheer ridiculousness of that.

They used to sell one made of plastic that could accept a variety of nuts, made more sense to me but I guess more sizes were required.

I’ve needed a new square for ages. The one I had was definitely out by a degree or maybe more.

It’ll be used for marking when breaking down sheet material, things like domino locations and squaring up the table or mitre saws.

A few more bits that I was lucky to receive.
Need to completely reorganise my tool wall in the garage now.

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I'm curious, what are the woodpeckers things at the bottom?

Mitre joint clamps

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That’s some good shit that. Show n tell on that wall then?

Current iteration.

Will be completely reworked.

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Someone's had a visit from the Festool Fairy 🧚🏼

Bang tidy. How’s life with the Festool Vac? We just got one at work with the grinder tool to do the floors and it just ate it all up!

Now that’s a track saw!

Got two. The main one is ace. Anything from the mitre saw, track saw, table saw (not pictured) and even the router table (also not pictured) just disappears. It’s invincible.

The portable one on the left in the pic was supposed to be used for doing stuff around the house when I didn’t want to lug the big one in but it’s really not that great despite still being a wired one. Wouldn’t recommend.

Ha. There are three up there. The 3m one is OP for breaking down sheet material. I never liked the accuracy of the connected ones. The two 1.4m ones are used for breaking down if I’m not using the MFT which is on the other side of the garage.

I’m starting to plan built-in workbenches for my studio. Could anyone recommend a good tutorial or instructions anywhere?

I like the look of the ply set-up above as I’d assumed I’d be using timber. I have a circular saw but no chop saw.

Out of thousands of gash videos I've watched which tend to be of the "I built this work bench for only $40 and $25,000 worth of tools and equipment" variety, I've probably been most impressed with this guy:

https://youtu.be/zcq1LQq08lk?si=rIXyoO2iaF7i1Kpu

He's quite into hand tools which means not everything is done using a table saw.

I think the first question from me would be whether you are fixing to the wall.

DIY might be the best place to ask.

Those benches are supposed to be free standing so you can use clamps all the way across.

Rex Kruger has a similar approach to an English woodworker called Richard Maguire (https://www.theenglishwoodworker.com/) who does plans as well. He's been a bit quiet recently but the plans and instructional videos I find pretty useful.

Thanks. I am thinking about fixing to the wall, as it will sit in an alcove and never need to be moved.

Has anyone seen any good deals on cordless drills at the moment? I currently have 0 power tools so not tied to any battery eco system or anything like that.

Doesn't need to be posh at all, will just have light DIY use.

Really over the top but I’m very tempted by one of these https://www.metmo.co.uk/products/pocket-driver

This dewalt one covers everything you need: https://www.screwfix.com/p/dewalt-dcd778d2-sfgb-18v-2-x-2ah-li-ion-xr-brushless-cordless-combi-drill/420pu

But from what you've previously said this Ebuaer one will also fit the bill.
https://www.screwfix.com/p/erbauer-eccd18-li-18v-1-x-2-0ah-li-ion-ext-brushless-cordless-combi-drill/654tu
Although not on a deal. I haven't used their drills, but the other products I've seen and used have been decent.

Actually I googled that baby bosch blue dbr recommended and found it for £75 here

https://www.campbellmillertools.co.uk/products/bosch-professional-gsb-120-li-combi-drill-2x-2-0ah-battery-in-case?srsltid=AfmBOooYRbfXqFQiBxhbHbEmCPU1Pe5jZ0IRKQxQ3Ce7_3Wvjd1yt-IA

I'd probably do that. Unless you think you'll need to drill into brick or concrete, then I'd get the DeWalt.

Also the Dewalt doesn't have a box/case and Imo for general home DIY that's actually quite important.

Thanks for this! Agreed that a case would be handy.

That Ebauer doesn't look bad but only 1 battery and an extra one isn't far off the cost of the drill. Not that I have plans for any jobs that will need more than 1 battery but you never know.

If you go with big brand like DeWalt or Milwaukee or whatever, extra batteries can be used with all kinds of aftermarket stuff like power supply clips (make it a huge power bank), or cheap AliExpress/Temu tools like my hot glue gun, which totally rocks as a cordless tool compared to the old mains shit.

Thinking on it I reckon dbr was right. The 12v Bosch is smaller, lighter and from watching a couple of videos will cover your needs. It's not brushless, but my now nearly 9yo dewalt combi is brushed and has handled all general DIY including drilling into concrete (albeit slowly). I've never struggled with running out of battery for drilling - it's routers and Multi-Tools that kill batteries.

The downside as I see it is that the bare tools for the rest of the 12v range are relatively expensive so you're not particularly benefiting from being in that battery system. And some might not be up to bigger jobs -altho that's a guess, not experienced.

But in the event you start doing bigger projects requiring a bigger range of tools then you can buy into another system down the line and having a light combi will always be useful.