Looking at photos on our website, I noticed Brian Ward's nifty 
underbench box. i too have an underbench box, though not so nifty. It's 
a plywood box repurposed to hold the many little work-holding devices 
one makes and only rarely uses, but which a good Galoot hesitates to 
throw out. It just fits under the long rail of my bench. I put a handle 
on it, and find it quite handy, even if its contents are a jumble.

Don

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moral justification for selfishness.” –– John Kenneth Galbraith

GGGs,

On Wed, Oct 13, 2021 at 04:03 PM, Don Schwartz wrote:
> ...devices 
> one makes and only rarely uses, but which a good Galoot hesitates to 
> throw out....

A good Galoot not only hesitates to throw out the devices, hesitating to throw
out the box itself often proves to be prudent; the self-fulfilling prophecy of
an accumulato... errrr, ummm... collector.

Cheers!
Mike

GG's

Consider labeling your gages, jigs, fixtures, etc., and at least initialing them
if not actually signing them.

I have a wooden contraption with moving parts and a lever.  I THINK my father
got it from his uncle Charlie, who had been a piano maker. And, I THINK it's a
device for putting the felt on piano hammers.  I would rather KNOW...with
certainty.

The Younger you are, the more likely that you'll live long enough to forget the
function of some of your labor-saving concoctions.  Think ahead.

John Ruth
Who wishes he'd labeled more of his father's tools.

Hi John Ruth:
  
Good advice, JR!  I have a jig I made about Y2k on the back of my outdoor bench
with a question (in my own handwriting) written on it: "What is this?"
  
Several years later I wrote an answer on there, "It is a donkey's ear for
chamfering the ends of 4x4s."
  
Works a treat, too. I'm just glad I didn't throw it away, because I'd've
realized what it was at the exact moment I heard the garbage truck revving off
at the end of the driveway...
             best to all galoots everywhere; gam in OlyWA/USA


Consider labeling your gages, jigs, fixtures, etc., and at least initialing them
if not actually signing them.



I have a wooden contraption with moving parts and a lever.  I THINK my father
got it from his uncle Charlie, who had been a piano maker. And, I THINK it's a
device for putting the felt on piano hammers.  I would rather KNOW...with
certainty.

The Younger you are, the more likely that you'll live long enough to forget the
function of some of your labor-saving concoctions.  Think ahead.

John Ruth
Who wishes he'd labeled more of his father's tools.