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Sneak Peek: The Newest Tool

🕑 Added 2024-03-15 13:30:37 +0000 UTC

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Larry W Thayer

Psst! Like I said!

Richard Broadbent

I'm thinking a block for the bottom of a leg vise as an alternative to parallel guides or the wedge that Rex used to use

James Carey

Offset marking gauge for drawing lines without measuring. https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256804630356241.html?gatewayAdapt=glo2usa4itemAdapt

Michael Rentsch

?Mortise guide with stepped cheeks for different thicknesses.

Thomas Hverring

Maybe a cocktail bar that folds into a ladder!

Sean McGown

@Laura, are you any relation to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Chalifoux

Max Goldstein

Ooh, interesting. I was thinking along the lines of many people here that it’s some kind of depth gauge, but it would almost fit Compass Rose better if it’s something specifically for hand tool woodworkers.

Alex R

I’d guess an anti-wracking device for a vise.

Mark H

Oh that’s an interesting way of using it. But wouldn’t you want more steps if you were using it for a lathe? I can imagine for a table saw that big steps around 1/4”, 3/8”, 1/2” depth would be useful, but a lathe is often for taking off tiny fractions of an inch. I thought for a moment it could be used to set marking gauges or router planes, but those need the same infinite adjustability rather than steps.

Richard C von Brecht

I agree it looks like a gaging tool for setting calibers which then would be used to check the diameter in wood turning project.

Mark H

We can only see half; the other half goes up exponentially

Ian greene

Could be a size reference tool though! Those metal set up blocks are slightly expensive for aluminum. If this was a hard plastic or metal step tool that would make sense.

Laura Chalifoux

This is a stumper! As others have pointed out, it's 3D printed, so it's likely prototype for a tool that will go into production in some other material. I think the holes in the stepped parts go all the way through, and are intended to be used with clamps. It's possible that in use the tool would be oriented vertically, instead of horizontally, as it's shown, but I don't think so. The step graduations seem to be even, so whatever offset it provides is either a universal measurement, or - more likely - the actual measurement doesn't matter per se, it's the convenience of the offset that matters. The stepped elements seem relatively tall, which is throwing me off a bit, but it's hard to tell scale from the photo. Given all that, my finalist guesses are, in order of least likely to most likely: 3. A glue-up accessory to stack assemblies so they're offset. 🫤 2. A clamp-on bench stop for planing or sawing. 🤨 1. A shooting board or shooting board accessory, because: shooting boards. 😎 I bet it's none of the above, but whatever it is, it will be really cool!

mmgross144

An apartment complex for fleas?

Larry W Thayer

I can see no other option.

Laura Chalifoux

This is what I want it to be! Perfect for that well-deserved post-work session chill out. Naturally, we'd have to build a custom, dust-proof, fold-out cabinet with a cocktail bar plus storage for comfy folding chairs and end table(s). I'm sure Rex will release the plans and tutorial videos soon.

Laura Chalifoux

Nah, it would have to be a lot bigger for that... 😉

Caillin Campsie

I'd agree with 1 at a glance - but I'd not be surprised to be wrong either

Vincent Chov

It's used for laying out mortises and/or testing the fit of tenons

Mark H

Is it a traditional pan flute?

Mark H

Looks like a depth guide for a tablesaw, but that seems unlikely for this channel

W Chance

I'm just gonna fall back to my childhood art class projects... it's an ashtray?

Joe Meyer

Aide in clamping or making our own domino from sawdust😅

Sean McGown

Wow, it's a template to graph my spending on woodworking tools!

Gerald Eddy

I also thought it was a depth gauge for plane irons and chisels.

Rob Weir

It reminds me very slightly of something like a Featherboard. Now those are usually used on Table Saws etc., but are there similar uses for a Hand Tool Woodworker? The open cells just look like something designed to compress a little...

Ethan Chitty

It's clearly 3D printed, and while it's stepped, the edges are rounded and chamfered, so it's either not a precision tool (i.e. setup guide) or it's zoomed in ridiculously close. Nor is it solid, so it's not something that directly takes a substantial amount of abuse in the form of striking. It looks like it hooks on with a handle in the back. I'm gonna go with a paring guide for chisels.

Daniel Tickle

Just a 3D printer? 😛

Rick Prosser

Offset setup thingamjiggy

Geoffrey Wilson

You've gone full power tool and it's a table saw push stick.

Larry W Thayer

1. It is a graduated drop in spreader for the non squeezing side of your vice to avoid racking. 2. It is a place to insert your chewing tobacco to make you chew and work for it. 3. It is a noise dampener to make it ok to do shop work when the bride would rather you were sleeping. 4. It is a form to pound dowel rod through to make it into rectangular shapes. 5. Impregnated with sand, it helps, by rubbing, remove rust from equipment and tools. 6. It's a pad to place tools on you might normally be afraid of dulling by placing them on the bench. 7. It's a pad you place over the intake of your dust collection device to replace the sound of sucking with the sound of a locomotive crossing a main intersection. 8. It is a tarp used to drop over those porch bandits taking your mail order tools. 9. It is an environmentally safe air circulating pad for the seat on your bicycle generator used to power your shop tools. 10. It is to put over your screen window to permit air circulation with all but the most direct rain eliminated. 11. It is a spongy floor covering to keep feet and back from hurting and tiring over time. 12. It is a grid through which to shake floor sweepings to find that darn wedding ring you said you lost in the shop instead of admitting you lost it putting dollar bills places you NEVER should have been. 13. It is a film to place over your television set to turn left leaning news into something more on the right. 14. They are the New and Improved "Rexo Blocks" (replacing Leggo) to build anything you forgot to buy last time you were allowed to go out to an auction. 15. It is padding to protect the things you send back that vendors send you to help them sell stuff. 16. It is a super magnified view of the safety glasses that prohibit the Guma-Rays generated by snagging your plane in pine sap. 17. It is the weave in the protective vest needed to fend off things flying from kickback. 18. A reusable coffee filter. 19. Drive belt for a bench top hand drive grinder. 20. Goes right from the freezer to the front of the box fan to cool your brow. Otherwise, I can't think of a thing. I just know we need these things and Dad's who have everything already will get stuff like this for Father's Day.