[stickman]

we always hear about the good tools we like . how about the worst tools you ever bought.

I can't answer because I haven't bought many tools yet and the ones I have bought are ........Awesome LOL

[Ashbys]

Well,

That would be the exacto knife I did my first carving with. If I had not purchased the exacto , then I would not have done the first carving , then I would not have finished the first carving , which lead to the second carving , which lead me to buy my first carving set, with lead to me buying a better carving set , which lead to more finished carvings , which then lead to wanting to do bigger carving , which caused me to buy my chisels , which lead me to carving larger projects , which lead me to buying more tools , which lead me to another project, which made me think I needed more tools , which , made me buy more tools , which then lead to a chainsaw , which lead to more tools , which lead to live trees , which lead to more tools , ect ect .

So you see the first one I purchased , the exacto knife has now cost me thousands of dollars , and massive time , work and sweat .

Should have bought it 20 years sooner.

lol

Ash

[Eddy Smiles]

I can't say anything bad about my Exacto. I wouldn't be where I am today without it. But I would like to talk to the idiot that buys those so-called carving kits from the Chinese for Harbor Freight. I was given a set a couple of years ago as a present and in my opinion all they're good for is decoration....if that! Oh! I imagine that they could be worked on but with my trusty Flexcuts serving me so well I just can't seem to find the motivation to put thm to the grinder.

[Thomp]

in keeping with ashbys list of regrets,

i didnt buy a great big cabinet or rollaway tool chest on chest to keep all these tools in, What we need is a little better advise for tool orginazation...

the worst tool i ever bought was a barlow pocket knife, when i was a kid there use to be prince albert pipe tobacco pocket tin liners they were printed with a offer with 10 liners or something like that and a buck you could get a barlow 2 blade pocket knife.

well i got grandpaw to save me his pocket tin prince albert can linners and i worked for weeks doing extra chores to a make the buck a nickle at a chore, about the year i was 10, we fixed up an order and several weeks later i got my barlow,

files, whit-rocks and grinders couldnt put an edege on it. i gave it to grandpaw to sharpen, and he said after he tried "that the can would have made a better knife", then he noticed the stamp on the made in japan, and said theres the d*mn problem, its made out of beer cans we sent them after the war..
grand paw was wwI&II vet so he had his openions

[Just Carving]

I guess the worse tool would be the first dull one I bought--a Dastra knife I bought about 10 years or so ago from an arts and crafts store--I think it was A.C. Moore. It really wasn't the knife as much as it was that I didn't know that it wasn't "ready-to-carve" sharp right out of the package. I got discouraged and threw it on the shelf since I didn't know how to sharpen it or anyone that knew how to sharpen it. I also didn't want to try since I was afraid I'd mess it up. Now, I use the knife periodically now that it is sharpened and I sanded the varnish off the handle.

[whitecree]

The worst tool is one of those mini-gouges you get for $4.95 for a set of 5.

Not even made out of recycled beer cans, more like snot and fingernail clippings.