Sure Black Friday is still a few weeks away, but that doesn’t mean you can’t get in on the online savings right now. Amazon has some Pre Black Friday deals on power tools and other home improvements items in their annual countdown to Black Friday.
Since the Christmas shopping season seems to be starting earlier and earlier each year, I have to put out the official Tool-Rank Christmas Gift Tool Buyers Guide earlier as well. Every year our gift guide features some of the coolest and handiest tools that we have covered throughout the year. All of the tools listed in our 2014 Christmas Gift Guide would make a great gift for any lover or frequent user of tools. We have gift ideas to fit any budget, starting at only a couple of dollars and climbing up to well over $500. Most of the tools we have reviewed ourselves, but some we just think are cool.
When Rockwell Tools announced their new F50 Sonicrafter I was really impressed with a number of the new features. What I was most impressed with was that it had a much larger angle of oscillation. I had always figured that oscillating multi-tools would benefit from a larger oscillation angle, so when Rockwell asked me to do a review, I would finally have a chance to see if I was right.
Known for their high quality pliers, which have been made in America since 1886, Channellock has announced that they are coming out with a new line of high quality screwdrivers that meet the needs of professionals. Best of all, they too will be made in the USA and assembled in their Meadville, PA factory.
In an effort to better organize my home workspace I decided that I needed to get some of my non-work tools out of boxes/bags and into places where I could more easily access the ones I use most. My solution was simple, and probably the same solution that many of you use, pegboard. A full sheet of pegboard is cheap, and with the right hooks and attachments, you can organize a good portion of your tools. Next all I needed was pegboard hooks. Lucky for me, my Father had a box full of them that he let me dig...
A few weeks ago I posted on Facebook about my super simple method for growing hydroponic tomatoes with no electricity; and though this is not tool related, enough people seemed interested about it that I figured I would write up a full article explaining my Kratky hydroponics setup.
All to often I see news reports about tools that are stolen from a jobsite. These tools are required for a person in construction to do his or her job, and a loss of tools can be very damaging. Below I have put together a list of tips – some obvious, some not – on how you can prevent tool theft and how you can recover stolen tools.
We have seen a couple of combination miter/table saws now enjoying freedom in the U.K., one from Bosch with a table mounted on top of a miter saw, and one from Makita that flips to transform. Now it is DeWalt's turn to join in on the fun with their very own flipping combination transformation miter/table saw.
