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We like tools. A lot. And you probably like tools, too. Right? 

Tools Then and Now: Soldering Iron

Many tools, such as the jigsaw and the engraver, that have changed significantly over the years due to the development of new technology.  But sometimes you find a tool that was pretty much fully developed from its creation. Take the soldering iron, for example: 

Tools Then and Now: Engraver

Doesn’t this look like an antiquated torture device?  That clamp-like thing over the table could secure someone’s neck or wrist and that handle thingy on the top could be slammed down into some vulnerable body part and do . . . I dunno. . . something really gory. Is it just me - or do you see that, too? 

Tools Then and Now: Plane

There’s something to be said about the elegance of some antique tools.  Take this plane, for instance:

Tools Then and Now: Level

Know what this is?   I guessed that it was some sort of ancient ocean navigational tool. And as with many things in life, I was wrong.

Tools – Then and Now

After years of studying, I’m convinced that tools were originally designed to chop off various parts of the body. If used properly, only fingers would go. However, if Dumbass Jimmy (or James Sharlborough of the Bloated Belly, as his doppelganger was known during the Dark Ages) decided to tie one on, maybe a leg or [...]

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