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Discussion Can You Ever Have Too Many Scale Modeling Tools?

Digger said:
The tool on the left with the blue handle is a latch hook for making hooked rugs. It is sad that I know that.
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My son has a hooked rug of a Clippership that my dad designed, and my mom made maybe sixty-five or seventy years ago. It serves as a wall hanging in a place of pride in his home. Meant for a hearth, it is not too large. My cocker spaniel used to curl up on it in front of the fire on chilly nights. I'll post a picture of it sometime.
My Grandma made braided rugs secured in a vice clamped to our dining table, which served as a kind of workbench for her and mom's crafts, with their tools and materials laid out on it. So, I suppose that's where I got the bug. I came by it honestly. The old dining table still serves as a work surface to this day in my workshop with two works in progress laid out on it.
And, no, you can never have too many clamps. ;)

Pete
 
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Short John Bronze said:
If one considers the expense of many other activies: club membership for golf, yachting, squash etc (and the associated bats) or the cost of tying to enhance one's image with fancy watches and designer sunglasses then treating oneself to a new Dremel accessory to assist model making seems fairly justifiable.
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Today a good Dremel is a most, the asesoría, there are hundreds to choice. so find the ones that shute you, and not a dentist etc. Dremel Proxcon was the only electric-driven tool I had. No lathe, no fraeser etc.
many tools- expensive ones such as lathe, thinner and many other, not to talk about 1D,2D or 3D and printers.
I started in the 1960s, where the was nearly nothing. My first -today X-knives-: were Hospital scapels for operations. I had one in the family, who was a nurse.
 
El Capi said:
Hej Jimmi, hear is one that does not agree with you. As I am one of the realold guys - I have always have a minimum of Toos, as when I started, there were nearly nothing. many tools I got from the plast industry. My 1Th electrical tool was a Proxcon, which I got as a birthday gift from my mother in 1998. Since then I have only had Dremels -with the right assesorry- but no Lathe, , nor fraeser, thinner of wood etc. To me buying the laytest tool , of vwhic you use a few times under yur build -like getting the latests smartphone.
I have seen atleast one member complaning about shipbuilding hobby is very expensive, to which I will answer back, it IS NOT MORE EXPENSIVE as you wants. Just ask Calibibot about his tooL
SO JIMMEI I DO NOT AGREE

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Aladdin's cave!!
 
To quote Fat Albert from the 1970's;
" I have lots of everything "
Two plus lifetimes of kits, 400 and counting covering stick and tissue airplanes, R/C that I no interest in anymore, plastic kits and ship models. Beautiful miniature modeling tools including new rope making equipment fro Aleksei Domanov. Duplicate hand and most power tools on both floors of my home plus a $22,000 mini tractor I only use for blowing snow - it has a heated cab, I'm gett'in old and don't like to freeze plus a beautiful John Deere lawn tractor with hydraulic everything.....
Hey, I worked 44 years before I retired...
I still work so I can spend on my hobbies and woodworking fun...
Plus, we were not able to have children and I've been investing for the past 36 years...
In other words, I worked for what I have and am grateful to God, my wife and the
people who taught me things in my life!
Have a wonderful week ahead eveyone!!
Steve
 
Magic Mike said:
Peter, Peaelcapi and Bird, Y'all have awesome hobby shops! Puts mine to shame! Magic Mike
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No worries at all, Mike. I don't have a hobby shop at all, I use one of the rooms in the apartment building, and I am happy to have that! I don't have the luxury of having many mechanical tools (BTW, not just because of that :p), but it doesn't make me ashamed compared to others who do.
 
I have certainly spent more on various tools than on models since I started. Even if I only use a tool very occasionally, if it has made my life easier it is always worth having. Beyond model making tools, I am the go to guy in the street where people need to borrow DIY tools and I tend to have some tool for most jobs, some used very frequently and some less so. Basically you can never have too many tools ... the challenging is hiding that from the other half :)
 
You have opened a very interesting topic, Jim. To your question of whether one can have enough tools, I give a clear yes/no. For my part, I still need one or two things, such as a lathe and a thickness planer and maybe a small pillar drill and ........ the list is a bit longer;). Sometimes it's even useful to have some things twice, but that's manageable. There are one or two things I would like to replace with something of higher quality. Where I'm really bad is books, or monographs, even if I can't build everything, the main thing is that I own them. It's like women with handbags and shoes, I speak from experience I have three at home (wife/2daughters). ROTF
 
Tobias said:
You have opened a very interesting topic, Jim. To your question of whether one can have enough tools, I give a clear yes/no. For my part, I still need one or two things, such as a lathe and a thickness planer and maybe a small pillar drill and ........ the list is a bit longer;). Sometimes it's even useful to have some things twice, but that's manageable. There are one or two things I would like to replace with something of higher quality. Where I'm really bad is books, or monographs, even if I can't build everything, the main thing is that I own them. It's like women with handbags and shoes, I speak from experience I have three at home (wife/2daughters). ROTF
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yeah...in your case, in order to have your next required desired (most wanted :p ) tool, you have to buy your girls three handbags or three pairs of shoes ROTF But...I am sure, there will be an anonymous decision on your part! :)
 
My short answer is "No, you can never have too many tools." The longer version is that, akin to whether I'm in my shop, garage, or kitchen... every project should involve the purchase of at least one new tool to assist with completion. lol Like most addictions, it starts out small, and then over time, grows to utilize all available funds. That said, are there some tools that I've found to be useless? Absolutely. A great example is the Amati Nail Nailer. One of the biggest mistakes I ever spent money on. A Loom-a-Line shroud/ratline building tool is another. Examples of stellar tools? X-acto knives in many shapes and sizes. A rechargeable mini hand drill. And hemostats.... lots and lots of hemostats. :)
 
seadeep said:
My short answer is "No, you can never have too many tools." The longer version is that, akin to whether I'm in my shop, garage, or kitchen... every project should involve the purchase of at least one new tool to assist with completion. lol Like most addictions, it starts out small, and then over time, grows to utilize all available funds. That said, are there some tools that I've found to be useless? Absolutely. A great example is the Amati Nail Nailer. One of the biggest mistakes I ever spent money on. A Loom-a-Line shroud/ratline building tool is another. Examples of stellar tools? X-acto knives in many shapes and sizes. A rechargeable mini hand drill. And hemostats.... lots and lots of hemostats. :)
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Agree on nail nailers or nail pushers - of any brand.

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Yes, I must confess @Hatteras that I share similar sentiments. I now consider nail pushers in the category of "necessary evils"... like snow shovels. Wish I never needed them, but when you do, you try to find what works best. :)

I have an older orange handled nail pusher (that looks a little like the wood handled one in your top photo), which I have a bit of a love/hate relationship with. It has a larger barrel, so it can hold any of the brass nails that come with kits from a variety of manufacturers. The downside is that it doesn't grip the nails, so if angled downward you have to keep a finger over the end of the barrel till it makes contact with the wood, or the nail will simply drop out. It's also a bit wobbly for the same reason. The brass nail will kind of wiggle around inside the barrel. My workaround is that once I have the tip of the nail against the wood, I can move the tool around a little to quickly centre the nail before I drive it in. Comparatively, the Nail Nailer can't take most pin nails because the barrel opening is too small. If you can find nails that fit in it, they'll stay in place while you position the tool, and you can adjust the depth of the nail set... that's a great feature. But half the time when I pull the tool away, the barrel itself comes detached from the handle. Given that both devices have their own quirks and challenges, I've stuck with my old orange beast. The Nail Nailer has been relegated to the box of "stuff" that I'm too cheap to throw out, but despise enough to know I'll never use them either. lol
 
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