Suggestion

[Ed62]

This can apply to everyone, but I posted it here because it's probably the place most "new to ww" people will visit.

My suggestion is to add to your signature, the major tools you have (see mine). This can help others better supply answers to your questions. Of course, if you have all the answers.......

Ed

[Thom2]

I'm not sure how good of an idea this is .... for example

BT3000
Craftsman RAS
Delta 28-203 14" BS
Delta 31-280 12"disc/6"belt sander
Ridgid JP0610 Jointer
Ridgid TP1300LS 13" planer
HF 43389 17" DP
Ryobi RE180PL router
Dewalt DW618B3 router kit
Hitachi M12V router
Ryobi OSS (500?)
Tradesman 16" SS
Grizzly G1029 DC
Husky 60g 7hp compressor
CH 2hp 4g portable compressor
Interchange 15g & 16g nailers
Craftsman 1/4" stapler
CH 18g brad nailer
Paslode Framing Nailer

that's only a partial list off the top of my head ..... do you really want to see that each and every time I post??????

[Knottscott]

A tool list is helpful when asking advice about what tools to get next, but it can also add theft risk for folks who use real names and locations, or even those who use a nickname but whose id's are well known.

This is a nice group of folks, but not everyone who browses these boards has pure intentions...

[messmaker]

Might be able to put some sort of permanent poll up for who has what, when it comes to major tools but I am not sure what it would tell you. You sometimes get what you can find or what you can find on sale. This may or not be the very best one even the one you had originally sought.

[Ed62]

But if you don't post 'em, how will I know where to go? Seriously, it's not the first idea I had that wasn't the best. See my signature.

Ed

[LCHIEN]

A tool list is helpful when asking advice about what tools to get next, but it can also add theft risk for folks who use real names and locations, or even those who use a nickname but whose id's are well known.

This is a nice group of folks, but not everyone who browses these boards has pure intentions...

That was my first thought.

[Ed62]

Actually, I remember a guy on the Ryobi forum who had no problem telling everyone what he had, and where he had it. He even told us how to pronounce his last name, which, if you didn't know him, you didn't pronounce right. We even knew where he lived, and that he bought his wife a Rolex for her birthday. It would have been very easy for someone to pay an unwanted visit. He seemed like a real nice guy, but I always felt like he gave too much personal information, including how many kids he had, and their names. So yeah, my idea was not a good one. I'm not always the sharpest tack on the bulletin board.

Ed

[lcm1947]

Ok with that insight I just changed my personal info. Thanks.

[cabinetman]

A tool list is helpful when asking advice about what tools to get next, but it can also add theft risk for folks who use real names and locations, or even those who use a nickname but whose id's are well known.

This is a nice group of folks, but not everyone who browses these boards has pure intentions...

Taking this premise one more step, the posts that show pictures of shops are very explicit. There it all is, what tools there are, and where they are. It's hard to believe that there are some who have nothing better to do than plan crimes and spend time on forums for this information. They don't even have to log in to view.

I'm not trying to deflate any rafts, but it's something to think about.



A THING OF BEAUTY IS A JOY FOREVER - John Keats

[lcm1947]

So Ed62, what did you say you did for a living. Retired was it? Sitting around all day with nothing to do except maybe drive around. Hmmm. Strange isn't it. ...................

[Ed62]

When you retire, you'll find out that's exactly what people think. You'll be busier than a cat covering up...... Well, that's if you know where the tools are.

Ed

[scorrpio]

A tool list is helpful when asking advice about what tools to get next, but it can also add theft risk for folks who use real names and locations, or even those who use a nickname but whose id's are well known.

I suppose adding a '12 ga shotgun and a 150-lb pitbull' to the list of tools would alleviate that.

But really, if I were a crook, I'd not even consider wasting time looking on the 'net. Consider:
1. A lot of people don't provide address at all.
2. Most provide a town at best.
3. On a forum, you have to wade through people all over the world to find maybe 2-3 locals.
4. Crooks prefer smaller, lighter merchandise - jewelry, electronics etc, not tools. Tools often become object of theft because they are in a separate building from main house, easier to break into without waking the owner. From forums, it is often hard to tell weather shop is in basement, attached garage or detached shop. (And weather that detached shop is in the backyard so every trip back and forth will be right under owner's windows)
5. Going back to my original point, most posters DON'T list security measures used. Or measures used by neighbors, for that matter. If neighbor has a real loud dog, it might be deterrent enough.

So, a crook is gonna have far more success locating a suitable target by just walking down a street with an eye towards a convenietly placed detached workshop, noting things like dogs, motion detecting lights, and visibility from neighboring lots.

[Knottscott]

...snip... So yeah, my idea was not a good one. I'm not always the sharpest tack on the bulletin board.

Ed

You're hard on yourself, but you're cracking me up!

[drumpriest]

There is a thin line between common sense and paranoia. Everyone in my neighborhood knows that I have lots of tools, I don't try to hide them, but so far none of them are plotting a midnight run at my shop. I dare them to come steal my powermatic, if they can move it, they've earned it. lol

I'm sure tool theft happens, but it seems an impractical way of saving money.

[eezlock]

personal listing to post....

I think that advice should be kept pretty much confidential for the most part
don't you?

If I were giving advice to a person about a specific tool, I think the best advice could/would come only from personal use of it and explain that
to someone, pointing out the strong and weak points and not getting into
a sort of brag about this, and that sort of situation just to show everyone
what they have.

I am personally proud of my tools, some new, some old, some inherted,
some were freebies, but that is me. I don't get tools to show everybody
what I have and try and make myself look better than the next guy.
I get them to do a specific job or type of work and go from there.

Tools are a way to accomplish a task...a way to an end result and that is it!
I have and do use tools in my daily business (locksmith work), and let me tell you...there are tools in this business that are expensive, very expensive!
Most of them are only sold to locksmith's and can only be bought from
a locksmith supply so that tells you that they control the price and they
change it at will whenever they want to!

Most woodworker's tools and machines are expensive....but can be bought
at about anywhere you choose to go....can even get the competitors
to get/ set pricing according to each other in the area and even honor
the competition discounts/ specials if they really want to sell the item.
So think! about what you tell someone about yourself and your tools,
it may be the best security to keep it to yourself. eezlock

ps: by the way...everything, and I mean everything I own...is under
lock and key at all times...even when I am around! eezlock