As a woodworker or DIYer i know you're always
looking for a good deal and in this box i've got 12 tools that are under 20 that i know you're
going to love i'm bradford fix this bill that let's find out what's in the box and just for
some fun i've broken them out in some categories for us we've got measuring and marking finding
and foraging punching and spraying cutting and stabbing and i'll take what gets you weird looks
for 500 Alex so let's jump in and see what we got to kick off the measuring and marking category what better else than a tape measure now you're probably familiar with regular tape measures and i've got one here this is a 25 foot tape measure and it's got little fractions on it it's great it works well and this is a 16 foot tape measure now the problem with these is they're huge now if you use a 33 foot tape measure i don't know something's wrong with
you i'm just i'm just saying the 16 foot variety is the one that i use most in the
shop because it is nice and thick and sturdy but when i'm on the go the one that i like to use
is the dewalt a 9 foot tape measure this guy look how small it is comparatively look we've
got a 25 foot tape measure and a nine foot tape measure i don't want to carry this into the
store i don't want to put this in my pocket this little nine foot jobby it can fit right in
your pocket it's got a little clip on it and it's even got a magnet on the backside so you could
stick it to your toolbox or whatever i buy these buy the let's say about a dozen i don't buy them
by the dozen they have a three pack of these that you can get for like 15 or 18 bucks i got one of
these in my truck i've got one in the office and i've got one in the kitchen so having a small
little tape measure really comes in handy when you are on the run highly recommend to pick up one
three seven twelve of these bad boys and just put them all over so you won't misplace them now to go
along with the measuring of course is the marking and what i typically use in the shop is just these
little mechanical disposable pencils this is a bic it's got a 0.7 millimeter lead and it's just
your standard mechanical pencil but the little lead being so small it has a tendency to
break off and also the mechanical pencils it's always like they get that flat side on
them so there's not really a point necessarily but it's still a pretty fine line now on the other
side if you want to do heavy duty work you can get squirrely as it were this one's from my
buddy john malecki and use a carpenter pencil now these are obviously a lot more heavy duty but
they're kind of hard to sharpen and they leave a really wide mark and so it's good for framing and
things like that but not for precision work but if you want the best of both worlds you can pick up
one of these the pika dry mechanical pencil this guy is about 15 bucks and it is a mechanical
pencil on steroids the lead on this thing is super thick i think it's 2.8 millimeters and when
i say i think it is i mean i just measured it with my calipers to make sure it was the lead can go
out really far so you can get a nice reach on that but also it's really cool because as it dulls
down there's a sharpener built in to the end of the little cartridge here and all you have to do
is stick that in and twist it around and you have a super sharp tip on it so you can get the same
fine point as you get with the 0.7 millimeter lead but it's gonna hold up it's not gonna break on
you i should start using it more in the shop but i find that i use it a lot when i'm outdoors
and doing outdoor projects uh but this thing is really cool and it's even got a little clip for
your belt or your pocket that you can stick on and just click draw mark stuff because
you never know when you gotta you know be on the draw to draw it brings
a whole new meaning to quick draw it's also got different colored refills available
so these are some white lead refills and this is perfect for marking on dark woods like walnut
so really dig this pencil and that wraps up the measuring and marking category let's move on
to the finding and foraging in our projects we use a lot of fasteners maybe something like
this quarter 20 nut and bolt and sometimes mistakes were made and you drop things in places
where you can't necessarily get them now of course i could reach under my bench but i don't have to
with a telescoping magnetic tool now these little guys are you know seven or eight bucks and you
can get some with leds that might be 10 or 12. but this little guy has saved my bacon so many
times mainly when i'm trying to get things from under a cabinet it's got a little magnet on the
end which is very strong and you can use that to fish out little items that you may have dropped
look at that huh so if you're a little bit of a butterfingers like me then you definitely need
to get one of these to forage for all those parts that you drop on the floor now the next tool is
the little brother or maybe the annoying cousin to the telescoping magnetic tool and
that is what i affectionately call you didn't think i could fit that in there did
you no because it is flexible this guy is i don't know it's 24 inches long and the cool thing
is is it's got a trigger down here on the end and this is great for grabbing things that aren't
magnetic so i can just push this at the end and these little claws come out and can grab it so
let's say i dropped this little bubble level which is plastic i can reach down in there and pick
it up and grab it with the little claw pieces this thing works really well and i have used it
so many times so much so actually that i have broken the little piece off i actually need to
get a new one but i jb welded it back on but i use this thing all the time in this corner because
i will drop stuff down here and it's kind of hard to reach but when you have the claw you can reach
things that are out there there's some trash i should have picked up a long ago let's see if we
can grab it what is this so this was not staged i just fished out ant killer that i had dropped off
the top there and i probably couldn't reach it and so i just left it alone but using this little claw
you can reach down and grab things that are out of reach and you can bend around corners and things
i've even pulled out little scraps out of my miter saw dust collection stuck this up in there
grabbed the little cutoffs and pulled them out so highly recommend one of these again this is in
the 10 to 15 range depending upon what types of things you have on it i've actually seen these
that have magnets on them as well so you can even combo those last two tools that i showed you and i
drop things all the time so i use it all the time all right now let's move on to punching and spring
and inevitably if you are using an air nailer and this is a cordless variety this is clearly
not under 20 but it's a nice tool if you're brad nailing things you're gonna have a nail that
doesn't quite drive down to the surface i showed that in my six nail gun mistakes video and if
you haven't seen that you can check that out right up here but if you have a nail standing
proud then you're gonna need a nail set what i have typically done in the past is get a little
nail set and a hammer and just whack away and try to drive it in there which is fine and dandy but
you know you need a hammer and you need a nail set of different sizes but one year for christmas
my dad got me tool number five which is this springy punchy nail set thing this is awesome
this is double sided so i don't know what the sizes are here i think that might be one thirty
second on this side and then a sixteenth on that side or a sixteenth and an eighth but basically
this has two nail sets that are connected with a spring and as you pull them out then they smack
against each other so if i wanted to set a nail i can just have that in there hold it down with
one finger pull it up with the other smack it down and it drives it in so i don't need a hammer
i can do it a few times if it needs to be done sticks right in mdf which is a nice little feature
and this is also great for taking the pins out of door hinges so you can just put that little bad
boy right on the underside of the pin smack it up there and it will shoot that pen out be ready
to catch it because it might come flying out it's about 15 bucks and it comes in different sizes so
you can check it out and it is nice and compact to store away and it is great for working on the job
site now drilling is part of a lot of different woodworking in diy projects and you might be doing
it in wood or metal but either way you want to make sure that you have a good starting point
so if i have a drill bit you know drilling into wood pretty easy and it's pretty easy to hit the
mark but when you are trying to drill into metal that bit wants to just run all over the place
when you push down the trigger so the next one is going to save you and that is the automatic
center punch now this guy is about 10 or 13 bucks again depending upon which one you buy but this
is a punch that will make a dent in the metal and you don't have to use a hammer it is automatic
so i can just mark where i want to have my hole this is dead little trick to get the ink back
into the pin spin it around just like this if you do it too much ink will fly everywhere
there we go so you mark where you want your hole then just take your center punch and you can
mark it right there and now when i use the drill it is going to go right in
that hole and stay there so this is great i've used this on
several projects and i would not want to try to drill metal without having a
center punch but it also works well on wood if you just want to make sure that you're getting
right in that center spot you can use this little bad boy and it'll do you right now loosely related
to the punching is spraying because whenever i'm working with metal i am typically spray painting
it and i will use a filler primer and then go to a flat black enamel which i think is a great look
as well as a top coat but if you've ever spray painted something where you need two or three
cans to get it done you know that holding down your finger on that trigger it's really annoying
after you get into that second and third can and you're switching hands to get it or i don't
know maybe it's just me because i'm a wimp but if you use tool number seven you can spray
paint in the lap of luxury and this is a spray trigger handle this thing is awesome they make
some cheaper ones don't get those get this guy it's still only i think about seven bucks
and this just goes right around the top of it and this will work it says rustoleum but
this will work on almost any spray paint can and when you pull down the trigger it sprays the
can so you have a lot better control with it as well as it's got a two-finger trigger which you
can pull back instead of having to squeeze your finger down which again just becomes a pain in
the finger i guess after you do it for too long i love this little handle great little thing if
you do any level of spray painting definitely pick one up all right our next category is cutting
and stabbing and clearly i was watching a little bit of pinky blinders when i came up with that
category but typically in my shop i will use some box cutters utility knives and i use them a lot i
actually love using just a razor blade on its own i mean it works really well especially if you're
scraping something or if you just kind of want to carve around and just have a little closer to the
hand feel when you're really cutting something up but i do use a box cutter and these are great i
like this one because it's got a little storage capacity in here where you can store some other
blades and so you can get a fresh one easily but the problem with both of these is that you can't
really cut super deep if you need to and sometimes you just slide out of a cut if you're cutting
cardboard or whatever it is so to solve that i'm going to use tool number eight down here which
is a snap off utility knife now these things you can get them in multiple packs i like this little
stanley model i think the new one is the fat max but you can get it for i think 12 or 13 bucks and
i will have links below to all these things down here and also we're about halfway through if i've
missed a tool that you think is really awesome that's under 20 bucks let us know down below in
the comments i'll go down there and read them and heart some of those ones that i think are
really awesome and if i buy it i'll let you know i really like this style utility knife
because it has a huge blade on it now the draw on this is that it's got the little
segmented pieces so you can snap it off and have a new clean tip there at the end but honestly what i
really like it for is just the length of the blade i mean look at that bad boy what you've got three
three and a half inches of cutting power there and this is great if you're cutting through
things that are pretty soft like cardboard uh you know you don't want it to be fully
extended be safe while you're cutting things but this is nice to have that extra length in
it when you're trying to cut through some foam insulation things like that i just really like
it because it's got the extra extension on it and so it's better than a box cutter in my opinion
for certain things go check these out link down below now this next one is probably my favorite
and it's really just because of nostalgic purposes now i've got some tools in front of me here and
these used to be my granddad's my granddad lived down in florida i was actually up in cincinnati
at the time in 2004 when he passed away i didn't get to spend a lot of time with him he didn't
get to teach me a lot of things on woodworking but whenever i was down there he would show me
some things and i always saw his shop and when he passed away my grandmother gave me some of the
tools that he had and they are super special to me so i've got an old combination square that was
his which is awesome an old stanley block plane which has the side knocked off which just gives it
some great character and this screwdriver which is a complete tank this thing is amazing i love this
screwdriver and i will never clean it up because i love the patina on it but the other thing that i
got from him was this vintage ice pick so an ice pick is something you might not think of in the
shop but it is really great tool and definitely less than 20 so you can pick these up online some
have wooden handles some of them are aluminum brass jimmy diresta's got a really cool one that
you could pick up from him but an ice pick you will not believe how many times you use it and i
love this one this is actually a vintage coca-cola ice pick i use this guy all the time either
holding things down or prying out little loose parts that i've cut out one of the things i use
it a lot for is stabbing into the drywall to make sure that there's a stud in that location so i
like to use the magnet trick to find the screws in the drywall and that usually tells you where the
studs are but sometimes the people installing the drywall mist the studs so i use this to confirm
it i'll just drive it straight into the drywall and if it hits a wooden stud then i can feel that
but if it doesn't then i'll just scooch over a little bit and if i do miss a stud then i can fill
that in with a little spackle and it's no big deal i would say go find one at a garage sale you could
probably find one for a quarter or 50 cents look at that bin of tools that they got sitting over
there and just pick that out and maybe you'll find some cool screwdrivers or whatever too but
definitely get a vintage ice pick if you can find one now the next one is going to be some hardcore
woodworking cutting so this is like legit no ice picks or utility knives now i have this japanese
style saw and this is actually a vaughn bayer saw and i really like this this one is really nice
it's got fine teeth on one side and ripping teeth on the other and it's nice and flexible and
it makes a fun noise when you hit it on things but sometimes it is a bit too unwieldy it's
really large and it's great for cutting large things but if i just wanted to get in something
tight or if i need to flush cut something this is probably not the tool for the job and it's
not under 20 bucks although i'll link down below to it because it is a nice tool so for those times
i am going to use a small flush cut saw and it is basically the same thing as this with just the
fine teeth and it is flexible so you can put it down and really get a flush trim on something
this is great for cutting dowels flush or if you're just going to be cross cutting something
and you want to do it really quickly i'll use this a lot when i'm edge banding something with
solid wood and i just want to quickly get that off and maybe i don't want to grab the big saw so
having a little flush trim saw is really nice and it comes in handy for a lot of small jobs
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you woodcraft for sponsoring today's video all right we're coming into the last category
which is things that might get you a weird look when somebody comes to your shop or if you go buy
them in person maybe just shop online for these but now some of the things that i always do in the
shop is mix things and i've got like these little stir sticks and these are just like paint stirrers
and you could even have a larger size one and dixie cups these are both great items to have in
the shop because if i'm mixing up little portions of things and i want to do it but you know this
paint stick's kind of big and like you don't want to just be burning through a bunch of these
because you know it's like nice it's like a big chunky thing so instead of that what i like to
use is the senior tongue depressors by dynarex these are awesome and basically it's a six inch
popsicle stick now quite frankly i have no idea what a senior tongue depressor is i guess it's
graduated from a junior tongue depressor you know maybe it's a tongue depressor that's uh getting
ready to go to college and they're just still not sure what they're going to do with their life so
a little six inch senior tongue depressors these are awesome because it fits nicely in a little
dixie cup and what i really like to do is snap them in half because i am a thrifty woodworker and
if i am mixing up pigments or epoxy i'll just use half i'll get the pigment with one side and then
mix with the other one and these are great they come in packs of 500 i think this version right
here is about 16 or 17 bucks but i've seen them as cheap as maybe 13 bucks for 500 i would highly
recommend grabbing these and i don't know maybe if you need to depress some seniors tongues as well
then you could also use these we're bringing it home for the last tool we're just going to stay
here i'm not switching camera angles the last one this really also has to do with mixing and things
that you're doing in the shop with liquids now i don't use stain a lot but sometimes i need to mix
things so i've got some rubio monaco here which is an awesome product and i had some charcoal and
i had some chocolate and i had some havana unanna and when i was trying to build the nightstand with
the hidden drawer the plywood i was using was kind of washed out and i wanted to darken it up but
when you're using the rubio monocoat it's like a thousand dollars an ounce so you want to
make sure that you're mixing it properly and i don't want to use a big jug or anything
like that so instead what i did was grab some syringes that's right these are blunt tip syringes
but do not get like the medical grade you know needle tip like you know they might just give
you weird looks but they come in all kinds of different sizes and they have also different
tip sizes at the end and these just screw right on and so what i did when i was mixing
together my pigments is i could get really accurate so i could pull in and get you know one
and a half millimeters of the havana milliliters not millimeters and then maybe three milliliters
of the chocolate and mix it together and then that way when i was doing my testing i could figure
it all out and then scale it up if i needed to so there's a few different tip sizes and i think
these come in gauge sizing but you should go out there there's like a ton of different options and
they're really inexpensive i think this whole kit right here was maybe 12 bucks the other thing that
i've used these for is for epoxy so i'll grab like the largest one because epoxy is pretty viscous
so you want a large opening and i'll just suck in some epoxy there and then put it into some
little fine details if i had some engravings or small things or if you just wanted to be really
precise while you're filling knots in your project you could use these it works really well and
you know you might get some weird looks when your friends come over and see syringes in your
shop but you know just let them know what's up you've got a habit and it's epoxy so whatever
i'll be checking the comments below for your recommendations but if you want to see some other
videos i got them queued up for you right there i want to give big thank you to those folks
that have been joining the ftbt builders club and until next time guys get out
there and build something awesome
