My background is in metal fabrication, design, and mechanics. I enjoy the process of creating new tools or modifying existing tools and trying new techniques.
My goal is to create videos documenting interesting and useful homemade tool builds, tool tips, and DIY everyday carry tools. Everything shown here will be tools that I personally use and or carry and find useful. A lot of them will be prototypes so check the description for updates on any modifications that I decided to make after using a homemade tool for a while. There is always room for improvement. Nothing is sponsored.
Keep in mind that most projects can be made with less expensive tools. You can do a lot with an angle grinder, welder, and a drill. I did paying jobs with basic tools that covered the cost of investing in tools that could do the job faster and easier. Tools pay for themselves very quickly.
Quality tool! These people that come up with these pocket gadgets appear not to be mechanically inclined. I’m very mechanically, inclined, and Handyman But I see no need and carrying around players with me for the rest of my life
cubes are the strongest shape for a magnet because if you were to stack magnets they only get stronger until they are as thick as the are wide and you can rotate it around the point the poles in whatever direction you need to if it’s a cube so for the most compact magnets you would want the highest grade cube shaped magnet you can find.
Seriously you don’t have a tool belt or a tool chest or toolbox one on earth are you gonna do is that tiny thing? I’ve had one in my tool box forever and still don’t use it. I have knipex ..all the sizes good grief.??? put a giant magnet behind your belt and put it there. Good grief really
I have a ranger band around mine, and keep it in a knife pocket on my pants. The Ranger band isn't to keep it from opening as much as to provide extra friction so it can't accidentally fall out. Many of my pants have flaps over the knife pocket, but often that is part of the cargo pocket, so if I'm reaching in the cargo pocket, the pliers are not as retained. I've lost a pair in the past, so I'm extra careful now.
