Favourite Tool

[Tim CooperParticipant @timcooper90034]

I was in my cabin this morning, whilst the rain poured down! It must be at least 3  days now I won’t have to try and water plants before they die!

I was using my Permagrit files to shape some wood and I thought how useful these tools have been, (and not just for model making); I must have had some of them at least 20 years.

I wondered if anyone has the the same experience with a tool originally bought for model making?

Or a tool that they couldn’t do without now?

Tim

[Colin BishopModerator @colinbishop34627]

I have a very simple favourite tool dating back to 1970 when my Wife to be bought me a boxed modelling tool set with various craft knives, files and other modelling tools in a presentation case as an engagement present. One of these was a simple small file with no handle, just a tang. Over the decades this little tool has been incredibly useful, not just in filing but also reversed to use the tangent in a variety if situations.

Six months ago it went walkabout from my worktop and I have scoured my workshop trying to find it without success.

I fear it is gone forever but no idea how. I really do miss it.

Colin

[Tim CooperParticipant @timcooper90034]

Colin

I have a small slotted screwdriver like that, I think my Dad gave it to me when I must have been about 14 or 15. Don’t think it was new then but I still  reach for it now even though I have several newer ones of the same or similar size.

Not bad for something over 60 years old.

It’s not always been used as a screwdriver as well, it was just the right size to open Humbrol tins or lever Warhammer bottles open!

Tim

 

[Ray Wood 3Participant @raywood3]

Hi All,

Definitely the Permagit sanding blocks, best thing since sliced bread !! 🙂

Regards  Ray

[ashley needhamParticipant @ashleyneedham69188]

Wonderful things…permagrit tools. Have blocks and files.

The small and large bansaws are my faves though. Couldn’t live without them ( metaphorically speaking)

Ashley

[Roger FugeParticipant @rogerfuge]

Permagrit tools with out a doubt

[Richard SimpsonModerator @richardsimpson88330]

I have two tools that have been a part of my life since a teenager.  The first is a pair of tweezers that my father gave me in my teens.  I still use them frequently today despite buying many more pairs since.  They just have a feel about them that is comfortable and I use them frequently when modelling.  I even use clothes pegs to close the tweezers together to use as fine clamps when required.

The second is probably my first ever purchase of a specific modelling tool.  When in my early teens I bought myself a stanley knife.  I wanted a general purpose knife that was sharp enough to do plastic modelling with but robust enough to be able to cut through thicker materials.  It has a retractable blade which was a very innovative thing in its day.  I can’t imagine how many blades have been through that knife in the over fifty years I have been using it.  I even used it in my teens to mix paint in, which still sits in the handle to this day.  It was originally a metallic gunmetal colour but there isn’t any paint left on the outside now, all been worn away by my own hands.  I’d be lost without it as I still use it for those jobs requiring a more robust cutting tool.

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