George Vondriska

Organizing Woodworking Tools with a Carpenter's Belt

George Vondriska
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George Vondriska and Dave Munkittrick discuss Dave’s favorite way to organize his woodworking tools while in the shop. He likes to use a carpenter’s belt to keep all of the essentials in order, like his measuring tape, utility knife and ear protection.

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  1. Wolf Lahti

    You spend twenty percent of your time looking for misplaced tools? Amateur! I spend at least 50%.

People have a lot of different approaches for keeping their stuff organized and with them when they're in the shop and Dave's here with a tip for us that I probably need to learn from because I'm really good at shoving stuff in my pockets, setting it down on the bench and then I forget where it is and I spend about 20% of my time looking for tools. So what's your approach, Dave, to keeping your common stuff nearby? And that's exactly where I'd find myself, is where's my tape measure, where's my pencil, where's my square, it ends up getting scattered around my shop because I'm a little bit scattered. I started out in this business working as a carpenter and, of course, carpenters wear belts. And this was my solution.

I don't use a big double belted carpenter belt, just a single pouch. And I just carry my essentials. Your common inventory. Yep, the tools that I use all the time And for somebody getting going Tape measure and I take off the clip, cause there's no need for that, and then makes it smaller and fits in there. A little 12-foot; Measures everything I need to make as a furniture and cabinet maker.

Pencil sharpener, keep this guy sharpened. So I've got all my marking and layout tools right there. And just in case I make a mistake, I've got a little eraser. I can't imagine that ever gets used I rarely ever use it. It looks like it's still pretty new.

Hearing protection. I love these little guys cause they fit right in my pouch and they do a good job. And you know, I don't have to carry around big muffs or go find them where I left them last and spend a lot of less time chasing around the shop. And then for checking cuts and things like that, just a small engineer's square. This is starting to look like the clowns coming out of a Volkswagen.

You got a lot of stuff in there. I do. Not really though. It's pretty light and you'd hardly even notice that you have it on. The other thing I like about wearing it on the hip.

When I bend over and things like that, stuff doesn't fall out of my pocket. I'm not being pinched in the belly like I do with stuff in an apron, for example. So, I think it has a lot going for it. These little pry bars are wonderful in case you should have to take something apart. Not that that ever happens.

Yeah. That goes with the eraser over here. And this is my little straight rule with a Six inch scale. Yep. Which is handy for, you know, depth gauges and dados and checking things like that.

And, of course, a knife for whenever you need a knife, and this is just a little chip carving knife, but it works well. For you, that's serving the purpose of like a utility knife in your apron. Yeah. And then last; oh, and, in here I have my little scratch awl for when I want to mark out using a scratch awl. And lastly, for my dust collection system, I have my remote control attached to my belt.

So, everything is right there. I'm not running around looking for things. You're like the Batman of woodworking. Yeah. What about dust getting in there while you're working?

Yeah. Every once in a while I take everything out and do one of these. But as long as you're not turning on the lathe, it's not crazy. I mean the thing that really gets packed sometimes are these little pencil pockets, but it's minor. Well, that's a good tip.

It's worth two things out of this one. The idea of the apron also Dave's kind of standard toolkit here of what he thinks people should have in their aprons to keep nearby for their work to make it more efficient. Every day. Yep. Very good.

Thanks Dave. You're welcome.

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