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Pack of Camels.
Good answer.
'Grandpa was a carpenter,
he built houses, stores, and banks
Chain smoked Camel cigarettes
and hammered nails in planks...'
Hello?Is this thing on?
He was level on the level
Shaved even every door.
And voted for Eisenhower
Cause Lincoln won the war...
"Grandpa wore his suit to dinner
Nearly every day
No particular reason
He just dressed that way
Brown necktie and a matching vest
And both his wingtip shoes
He built a closet on our back porch
And put a penny in a burned out fuse."
The Stanley #1 plane.
I'm sure I'm wrong but I use the other pocket for a knife.
Mine was for the utility knife
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It probably depended on what you were doing, and what was your role. I know some guys carried block planes, my grandfather's leads carried adjustable bevel gauges/markers.
Phill Giles
The Unionville Woodwright
The first old-time carpenter I worked with used a 6' folding ruler and carried it in the larger right leg pocket so, of course, I followed suit. Later on, when I discovered the many advantages of using a 12'or16' (the longest then available) tape measure, I quit carrying the folder and began using the smaller pocket for my utility knife.
Since then I've always used the smaller pocket for that knife, sometimes with a small block of wood in the bottom to make it easier to get hold of the knife.
As I recall, it was an either-or proposition with those two pockets. If you carried a folding ruler in the larger one, that made the smaller one too tight across, to get a utility knife or anything other than a pencil, into it.
Edited 4/8/2008 11:53 am by Hudson Valley Carpenter
I always preferred the folding rule in my hip pocket. You are right, both tools made it uncomfortable. I put the list of things to do in the taller side pocket
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Cell phone. They were ahead of their times.
Bob's next test date: 12/10/07
That's the pliers pocket and I still use it that way. Too naked without it!