make versus buy

[cpttuna]

If I am able, I will make a tool before I will buy it. I have 4 jeeps. I like to keep a small tool kit in each one. I like to have a short-handled #2 phillips and a long- handled one in each jeep. I did not have enough long-handled. so I decided to make my own. I had enough pieces laying around so all I needed was a cut-off tool, and my welder.

PS. I have the $30 or so to buy 3, but it was much more fun making them.

 

[2ndGearRubber]

I usually spend 2x-3x building my own version, yet I still make things?

 

[larry_g]

To me sometimes a tool is just the steel to make something you need out of. I'm sure others will be along to point out that you have desecrated a collectible item worth $$$.

Nice looking job there.

lg
no neat sig line

 

[Ton ton]

Did you make your own claw hammer too? I enjoy seeing homemade tools. Not that I know much about it.

 

[FMB4]

Sorta made, well make that modified, a square shank #2 Phillips into a T-handle driver by cannibalizing/cutting a Sq. shank flat blade (from the same set) and then welding the remaining F blade shank on to the end of the Phillips (I had just purchased a Miller 225 'Thunderbolt' stick welder and was looking for something, make that anything, to weld. That mod driver served my very well for ~ 12 yrs of MC and auto mechanic jobs and is still going strong today nearly 40 years later.

 

[cpttuna]

Did you make your own claw hammer too? I enjoy seeing homemade tools. Not that I know much about it.

I inherited quite a few hammers.

 

[Ton ton]

That's an impressive selection of hammers.