EDC XIII Which knife or knives are you carrying today?

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Got me a new toy today and immediately brought it outside to feed the birds and tend to my plants! I lucked out and got it for $150 off, brand new direct from a dealer. Just one of those crazy good deals because he had too many. It was a small knife dealer business too, so it felt extra good. I'm instantly in love.
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I spent a good bit more time than made sense this morning on a small part of the roofing project. With my roof being red cedars on strapping with no roof deck, it was inevitable that we needed a solution around the plumbing vent pipe through the roof. My buddy sent down the needed measurements for a 3/4" plywood filler block with an appropriately sized hole for the 3.5" stink pipe. I figured out how to cut an oblong hole at a 10/12 pitch with a 4" hole saw, calculating the proper dimension up and down slope as a targets, setting up a jig to follow and it came out nicely. The downside was that my left-handed buddy gave me the lateral measurement right-to-left when I'd asked for left-to-right and the piece was backwards. It took some convincing to make my friend understand that you couldn't just flip it over, set a saber saw to the roof angle, and re-cut. Given the geometry one would just make a mess of something that would only been seen inside the attic and was only done as a kinda cool exercise in figuring, execution, and neatness.

I ended up just squaring it out and recutting the bottom angle as I had a bit of wiggle room with the uphill end open to the next furring strip and the piece not yet ripped to width. Here's the piece no one will ever see before re-cutting and today's carry.

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As a side note, my right angle drill is the last of my working 45-year-old-plus original American-made Milwaukee tools. All the others would still be in service if not for the unavailability of simple wear items like switches and brush cages or certain gear and motor parts. I was lucky to be able to get a new collar for the angle drill a couple years back. I've got a few newer Milwaukee tools made on the other side of the the world--they're OK but not the same. Nowadays if a tool goes down you've pretty much just gotta buy another as you can't get most parts beyond a few years of manufacture. I still can't bear to toss them in the scrap heap and the loft in tool shed is full of those by old quality makers.

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ChazzyP said:
I spent a good bit more time than made sense this morning on a small part of the roofing project. With my roof being red cedars on strapping with no roof deck, it was inevitable that we needed a solution around the plumbing vent pipe through the roof. My buddy sent down the needed measurements for a 3/4" plywood filler block with an appropriately sized hole for the 3.5" stink pipe. I figured out how to cut an oblong hole at a 10/12 pitch with a 4" hole saw, calculating the proper dimension up and down slope as a targets, setting up a jig to follow and it came out nicely. The downside was that my left-handed buddy gave me the lateral measurement right-to-left when I'd asked for left-to-right and the piece was backwards. It took some convincing to make my friend understand that you couldn't just flip it over, set a saber saw to the roof angle, and re-cut. Given the geometry one would just make a mess of something that would only been seen inside the attic and was only done as a kinda cool exercise in figuring, execution, and neatness.

I ended up just squaring it out and recutting the bottom angle as I had a bit of wiggle room with the uphill end open to the next furring strip and the piece not yet ripped to width. Here's the piece no one will ever see before re-cutting and today's carry.

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As a side note, my right angle drill is the last of my working 45-year-old-plus original American-made Milwaukee tools. All the others would still be in service if not for the unavailability of simple wear items like switches and brush cages or certain gear and motor parts. I was lucky to be able to get a new collar for the angle drill a couple years back. I've got a few newer Milwaukee tools made on the other side of the the world--they're OK but not the same. Nowadays if a tool goes down you've pretty much just buy another as you can't get most parts beyond a few years of manufacture. I still can't bear to toss them in the scrap heap and the loft in tool shed is full of those by old quality makers.

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We’ve still got several of them. Used to come in the metal cases. We had an old thunderbolt rotary hammer drill from them as well. That thing was bulletproof and took a beating for many many years. It finally gave out and we sent it to Milwaukee for repair. Got it back with a letter saying they couldn’t repair it so they sent a replacement. All plastic and when you opened the case it didn’t have that same feel. Definitely doesn’t perform as well, not even close
 
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