Your Favorite Tools, Part 1

Your Favorite Tools, Part 1

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The most recent special edition of the Make: Newsletter asked readers: What is your favorite tool? We got some fantastic responses, many with photographs, from makers all over the world. These are just a few of them. Thanks to all our newsletter subscribers, to everyone who responded, and especially to those of you who sent pictures, links, and stories.

Got a favorite tool of your own to share? E-mail us at toolbox@makezine.com.

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10 thoughts on “Your Favorite Tools, Part 1

  1. denbo says:

    I gotta make me a pair of those vice grips.

  2. ka1axy says:

    Favorite tool?
    You mean, I have to pick *one*?
    but…all the others will feel unloved…I just can’t do it.

    ///darn – multitools are great, but all I carry every day is a little Buck 55 for opening packages

  3. GC says:

    You know your talking to makers here. Four out of these ten items were either shop built or modified!

  4. Ryan Rogers says:

    Of all the great tools I’ve used in my life, my Sawsall gives me the biggest smile every time I have to use it.

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