{"id":5963,"date":"2010-10-20T13:05:34","date_gmt":"2010-10-20T17:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=5963"},"modified":"2017-07-13T09:19:45","modified_gmt":"2017-07-13T13:19:45","slug":"some-combination-tools-work-well-and-then-theres-this-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/10\/20\/some-combination-tools-work-well-and-then-theres-this-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Some combination tools work well … and then there’s this one"},"content":{"rendered":"

Christopher Schwarz<\/a> gives in to the urge to try out a new tool that combines the rasp and the chisel in one not-so-easy-to-handle package:<\/p>\n

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Now usually when I see a tool like this I just ignore it. Boneheaded ideas like this usually end up in a mass grave with the bones of dodo birds, passenger pigeons and AMC Pacer automobiles. But a couple weeks ago I stumbled on a set of these tools for sale — new — on Amazon.<\/p>\n

These tools must be stopped. So I bought a set of three to take a look. They are as bad as I feared.<\/p>\n

The tools are incredibly heavy. The rasp teeth are coarse and not very aggressive. They manage to make more of a farting sound than any scratches in the wood. Of course, it doesn’t help things that you have to use the rasp one-handed — grabbing the chisel tip is ill-advised.<\/p>\n

Or is it? The chisel edge is as sharp as Lennie from “Of Mice and Men.” And when you do pound the chisel into a piece of wood (thank you Mongo the Mallet) the tool stops dead after 1″ because the rasp teeth dig into your work.<\/p>\n

And the worst thing of all? They are branded as Nicholson — the once-great rasp maker.<\/p>\n

But if this tool can succeed in the marketplace for 10 years, what other opportunities are toolmakers missing out on?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Christopher Schwarz gives in to the urge to try out a new tool that combines the rasp and the chisel in one not-so-easy-to-handle package: Now usually when I see a tool like this I just ignore it. Boneheaded ideas like this usually end up in a mass grave with the bones of dodo birds, passenger […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,73,487,161],"tags":[156,1140],"class_list":["post-5963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","category-randomness","category-tools","category-woodworking","tag-fail","tag-handtools"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-1yb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5963"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39313,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5963\/revisions\/39313"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}