{"id":39968,"date":"2022-05-26T11:10:03","date_gmt":"2022-05-26T18:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=39968"},"modified":"2022-06-01T10:35:14","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T17:35:14","slug":"testing-everyday-carry-folding-knives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/testing-everyday-carry-folding-knives\/","title":{"rendered":"Testing Everyday Carry Folding Knives"},"content":{"rendered":"

Got a tip to share? Tool to recommend? Tall shop tale to tell? A tip to bust? Please\u00a0share with the class<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Testing Everyday Carry Folding Knives<\/strong>
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\nIn\u00a0this Project Farm video<\/a>,\u00a0Todd<\/strong>\u00a0tests out 15 brands of everyday carry (EDC) folding knives from Fallkniven, Benchmade, Gerber, Victorinox, Kershaw, Cold Steel, Kizer, CRKT Fossil, Leatherman Skeletool, Milwaukee, DeWalt, COAST, Kingmax, Vulcan, Master USA.\u00a0In the end, the expensive\u00a0Benchmade<\/a>\u00a0($170) performed best, but the\u00a0Kizer<\/a>\u00a0($69) and\u00a0Kershaw<\/a>\u00a0($87) also showed impressive results. The surprise was the\u00a0Kingmax<\/a>\u00a0(at only $13). It performed decently and includes useful features, like a window breaker and seatbelt cutter.<\/p>\n

On the Make: Podcast Talking About My Book<\/strong>
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\nA few weeks ago,\u00a0Dale Dougherty<\/strong>\u00a0of\u00a0Make:<\/em>\u00a0and I had a fun chat about my latest book,\u00a0Tips and Tales from the Workshop, Vol. 2<\/a>.<\/p>\n

DIY lifer Gareth Branwyn has compiled a new volume of his series, Tips and Tales of the Workshop, Volume 2. He joins Dale Dougherty to talk about how he collects tips \u2014 asking a person directly to share a tip is not very productive. He shares some of his favorite tips he has found. He talks about the aspirational quality of tips, how picking up an idea from someone can help us become better. Learn more about Frankenstein prototyping, that things aren\u2019t perfect in the vaults of Gothic cathedrals, and that details layer one on top of the other.<\/em><\/p>\n

Listen\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Adam Savage on Retirement and Idea-Vulnerability<\/strong>
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\nIn a recent Q&A,\u00a0Adam Savage<\/strong>\u00a0was asked if he shares his project ideas with family and friends. His sincere answer touches on the vulnerability of an idea and how you want to be careful with whom you entrust those ideas to. His answer\u00a0reminded me<\/a>\u00a0a little bit of\u00a0Stephen King<\/strong>\u00a0who was asked about whether he shares his work-in-progress books with anyone. His answer is no, NEVER, because of the vulnerability of the idea. King doesn\u2019t let anyone read a word until he\u2019s finished. His first reader is always his wife,\u00a0Tabitha<\/strong>, because he knows she knows about idea-vulnerability. King says to have one reader, someone who understands what you\u2019re doing and knows how to navigate the precarious nature of your creative process. Similarly, Adam suggests figuring out who the people are who you can talk to \u201csafely\u201d and only share your ideas with them.<\/p>\n

Answering the question on will he ever retire, Adam struggles to even wrap his mind around the concept. He says: \u201cRetirement for me means spending a lot more time passing on my knowledge\u2026I\u2019m never going to stop making stuff. I\u2019m never going to cease collecting objects, stories, and ideas\u2026My hobby is my living, my living is my hobby. I\u2019m always going to be doing that.\u201c He\u2019s aware enough to recognize the great privilege he enjoys (as do I) of being able to do what you truly love for a living and getting paid for it. And because he\u2019s doing what he loves, he never plans to stop, he just might start getting paid less and less for it.<\/p>\n

Making a Portable Weight for Surface Mount Soldering<\/strong>
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\nWhile going through some old\u00a0makezine.com<\/a>\u00a0content, I happened upon\u00a0this little gem<\/a>, a simple tool for holding surface mount (SMT) electronic components in place. This could be useful for holding any small objects. The link to the project is dead, but\u00a0here it is<\/a>\u00a0via the Wayback Machine.<\/p>\n

Using Toothbrush Travel Cases to Store Bits, Blades, Etc.<\/strong>
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\nFrom the latest issue of\u00a0Family Handyman<\/em><\/a>\u00a0comes this idea for using cheap translucent\u00a0toothbrush travel cases<\/a>\u00a0to store bits, blades, and other small tools and components.<\/p>\n

Resin Printer Settings Spreadsheet<\/strong>
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\nBy way of\u00a0Donald Bell<\/strong>\u2018s\u00a0Maker Update<\/em><\/a>\u00a0comes\u00a0this really useful tool<\/a>. As someone relatively new to resin printing, I\u2019ve come to realize just how important printer settings are for successful prints. Layer height, exposure time, base exposure time, and light-off times can all impact your print success. And all of these values can be different for different resin brands.\u00a0This spreadsheet<\/a>\u00a0on Maker Trainer shows the optimal settings for all the common (and not so common) resin brands.<\/p>\n

Maker’s Muse<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Think

Think of the thing that’s so obvious that no one is going there. Go there.<\/p><\/div>\n

Shop Talk<\/strong>
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\nReader\u00a0Foster Schucker<\/strong>\u00a0sent in this tip (which I included in my first tips volume):<\/p>\n

\u201cI recently saw the tip about the hanging bags and thought I\u2019d share my tip for what I use to hold all of Raspberry Pi parts. It\u2019s a\u00a0jewelry bag with 36 compartments\u00a0<\/a>on both sides. It was inexpensive and it\u2019s been nice to be able to see the parts at a glance.\u201d<\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

On\u00a0<\/em>the question raised<\/em><\/a>\u00a0by reader\u00a0<\/em>Gary Shell<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0on the Amazon prices almost always being higher than Todd at Project Farm lists them as in his videos,\u00a0<\/em>Raoul Miller<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0writes:<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cAnswering Gary\u2019s question – Amazon does dynamic pricing. When a web site features an item that is somewhat obscure and interest in it rises substantially, then they raise their prices. You just need to wait a week or two for the traffic to it to die down and the price will go back to where it was.\u201d<\/p>\n

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