One of the core subjects on this list seem to be tools and how blind user friendly they are. I come from a profession where I was forced to either modify existing tools or in some cases scratch build something that would allow me to work competitively. The thought crossed my mind, why couldn't we create a tool-crib list where these ideas, modifications and creations could be show cased apart from all of the non-tool related posts. We would have an opportunity to discuss what does and doesn't work, how we could make it better, how we could build it and repair techniques on the crap that the retail market would like to sell us. The forum would be limited to creating, modifying and tools that are off the shelf accessible. For example, I know that if we all put our virtual heads together we could come up with an accurate, effective tape measure that doesn't cost a hundred bucks and that we need to send back across the big puddle to have it serviced. Or what about a bullet proof dead on saw guide that doesn't take all afternoon to set up every time you want to rip a sheet of plywood. Or a pipe cutting guide attached to a saws-all that will insure a strait even cut the next time you need to cut large diameter pipe. Am I up in the night? was this just a randomly occurring brain fart?What do you think?
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