marking your tools (story)

[great adventure]

dear guys

may I ask you one question??

what you are going to do if you see your marked tools (under your name)
with your friend at the next workshop???

1- are you going to take your marked tools without he feeling that
to avoid any embarrasment between you and him???

2- or are you going to tell him the true that this is your tools
also you are going to cause another embarrasment for him
as he might think that he is a theif lol

3. incase if you took your marked tools without telling him
he also might think that this is his tools and your are the theif???
and not him. because you took the tools without showing him the
mark?????

 

[voidifused]

I think i would just take them and leave, if he said anything to me i would simply say "If i find my tools on you're box again i will start removing you're finger nails with an awl, that is ALL!"

I have had to many people try and screw me for tools at work and to many times i will be working with one of the machines at the shop or moving something to set it up at a project and find that tool i have been missing and it be broke and just stashed some were..

Maybe the awl is a bit ruff, just a hot bath in tar and then feathered would do as well.

As an edit: I Engrave all my tools at work, i have had some people grind the engravings off my tools and and try and keep them. At that point i had to go to head head cheese and had him fire, when ever i get new tools i engrave them and take photos of them for insurance. That way it shows were i engrave the tool etc.

 

[great adventure]

voidifused

thank you very much for sharing with me the marked tools

listen, that's what I did, I took my spana 10 - 11 chrome vanadium
and left the garage as my mark (yam) on the middle of the spana

and before I put the spana in the tools box I showed it to my wife first
because the guy is (my wife uncle)

anyway the guy noticed that he lost the spana the same moment I
entered the garage, so he asked me. did you took the spana I said yes
its mine and my name (yam) were stamped on it.. and before I put it
in the tools I showed it first to my wife..

but he insisted that he got that spana for long time...

I ignored him but after one week I lost the same spana
and found another cheap spana in my tools box thats so strange

 

[kythri]

Are you saying he stole it again?

It's time to get a lock for your box.

 

[r6_cannibal]

I'd smack the person upside the head with the tool, and THEN take it back

That's tough though because you don't want any arguments or anything if it was seriously a careless mistake. If they're seriously trying to pull some shady monkey-business then I would have no problem embarrassing them about it, if that's what it came down to. However distinguishing between the two would be tough, hopefully your friend just didn't realize he nabbed it and was not sure who's it was.

 

[robs55]

Hey r6 Cannibal, That Was Funny

 

[v8garage]

I thought they had a solution for thieves in Bahrain?

 

[rsanter]

I would take them in such a way that he sees me doing it if he wants to confront me on it then so be it

bob

 

[Frank Elson]

My friends and I have mixed up tools occasionally.
We just say, "Hey these are mine," and the other says, "Oh, sorry."