woodfab Posted March 18, 2023 Report Share Posted March 18, 2023 Don't you hate it when you can't find the tool, templet, or jig you need? Last week I bought an 1-3/4" forstner bit and I just spent an hour looking for it. Or last week I spent close to an hour looking for a jig I made last year. Very frustrating! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghostdive Posted March 18, 2023 Report Share Posted March 18, 2023 I find it helps to leave everything the same place every time I use it - which is, I think, over there about halfway down the pile of stuff...or maybe I put it in one of those boxes...hmm... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bizman62 Posted March 18, 2023 Report Share Posted March 18, 2023 I have a scraper with a yellow handle. It took about a year to find it as it wasn't in my toolbox. I finally found it in the basket by the broom cupboard - a place where my wife might put things she has used and might need in the near future. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mistermikev Posted March 18, 2023 Report Share Posted March 18, 2023 14 hours ago, Bizman62 said: I have a scraper with a yellow handle. It took about a year to find it as it wasn't in my toolbox. I finally found it in the basket by the broom cupboard - a place where my wife might put things she has used and might need in the near future. I often find myself about to curse... because my wife is maniacal about cleaning and freq puts stuff in the most random of places. just happened the other day when I had bought groceries along with a new box of latex gloves... made the mistake of leaving it on the cupboard for 24hrs and now it is lost forever. that said I always catch myself and give thanks that she keeps our place so clean and doesn't complain about how messy I am... she's a saint really. had a set of 2x15 fender/jensens from a late 60s bandmaster and one of them I didn't have a box for... she put a box right on top of it in the closet and the box corner tore a hole right through the cone. i guess that was on me for not immediately finding a box. still not over it. tools... man I'm trying to learn to put them back in their place as soon as possible. that and guitar parts... I try to keep everything for a build in a box... but then I pull stuff out to measure or test fit... and I somehow loose the original tuner screws or can't find the nut I was gonna use. at points along a build I will have every open space on every bench covered with stuff. then I spend a half hour looking for the tool that was "just in my hand"! tis the nature of the beast!! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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