Assume you’ve got hammer, screwdrivers, pliers, utility knife, tape measure, pencil, level, and some sort of square. What next?
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Depends what you are doing I'd say. Roofing or siding, then I'd say a chalk line. Trim, maybe a bevel gauge or some nail sets. Framing, (nothing more needed, and you can probably lose the pliers).
I always carry one of those small Japanese cats paws/pry bars and use it probably every day. I also carry a 1" chisel which gets used for everything from chiseling wood, scraping whatever, lever, wedge, hornet nest eradicator, etc. Very handy indeed.
I actually carry a small 6"pull saw in my belt too which comes in handy for finishing cuts right at the saw.
I used to do electronics intallations - monitors, projectors, speakers, etc... and used my Stanley Yankee drill all the time. One handed, quick, light enough to always have it in my pouch.
My wallet.
Comes in handy to buy all the other tools I need.
As Redford Henry said it depends on what one is doing. In my apron I carry most of the tools you mentioned except for the square and level which are there when the job dictates. I also carry a catspaw, a japanese nail punch and a small pair of vice-grips which I find more usefull than pliers. I carry a multi screwdriver with additional bits which I can also use in a cordless drill which is often in my apron as well. My apron has two holsters and carries two drillls when I am feeling energetic.
I've got a bag full of hand tools that are all the most useful when I need them... angle finders, scribers, prying thingies, punching stuff, pulling gadgets, clampers, measuring devices, files, bangers, drilling and/or cutting devices,
gluing helpers... you know the drill: buy 'em, try 'em... stick 'em in the crawl space or the tool bag...
what are you really looking for?
Must be, and that is all.
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Nail nippers/pullers - couldn't live without them.
Forrest
DOOD! You is right on right there.
If people don't know it's just because they never used one.
Me three
dusty
Me four. I use the diagonal type.
On a hill by the harbour
A nap?
Mike Hennessy
Pittsburgh, PA
Block plane,,,,,, hands down
This morning while installing trim I watched another person shake out a cord go get his belt sander and then a few clamps to fit a base board to nasty floor hump. By the time he was finished I was two room and three humps ahead of him with a block plane.
Milkyway bar.
I think the Gomboy saw and a really old pr of nail nippers gets the most wow outta folks when I am working. Got a cool nipper made by channelock before they were channelock, one handle is a Vee nail puller, the other is a straight slot screwdriver..about 7" total, and fit nicely in most tool pouch pockets.
And a sliding bevel is indispensible in my work, where what I am working with or on is rarely sq.
Spheramid Enterprises Architectural Woodworks
Repairs, Remodeling, Restorations
"We strive for conversion,we get lost in conversation, and wallow in consternation. "
Me.
My hands.
Not sure if I will ever get it right, but I will continue to roll that marble around my pea-brain until I figure it out.
Nippers, the blue Channelock
Block plane, I have 5
5 in 1 scraper-pry thing. I sharpen them and have probably a half dozen
Little 9" flat pry bar
Ear plugs on the string
Cat's Paw
Stanley Wonderbar
79 cent pencil sharpener
Have a good day
Cliffy