Comments on: What the BLEEP is THIS?

By: John

John — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:21:16 +0000

BINGO!

Send me an email with your contact info–you just one a prize! (john@bridgecitytools.com)

By: wood_wench

wood_wench — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 06:15:32 +0000

Use me once
and I’ll flip for you.

Use me twice
and I’ll be a-gap-ed,

I’m a perfect device!

By: John

John — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 03:48:49 +0000

33: Use plenty of blankets tonight–it’s a three dog night.
35: No early frost here–straight to the Ice Age!
36: Had pasta for dinner–it was warm and so are you, but then you went cold.

-John

By: pfranks

pfranks — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 03:20:06 +0000

You know, Charles, I had similar thoughts to yours. My logic went: this is BCT – they make hand tools. So this probably isn’t a router guide. There’s no set screw in the hole, so it probably isn’t for locking something in there. The knobs are recessed, so it can lie flat. I was wondering about whether it was a saw guide, or a layout tool. Some sort of measuring gauge (put a pencil in the hole) for reveals or distance from the edge of something. But there doesn’t seem to be an edge that would ride along the edge of a board.

I was wondering about the notch at the bottom: could it fit over the edge of a board? But then what do you do with it?

Maybe you put a dowel through the holes, and use two of them to make a pasta-drying rack…

Peter

By: JoshG

JoshG — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 03:17:31 +0000

I was going to guess it was a portable drill guide until I read some of the clues here. (Not sure if that kind of tool is partial to the Beach Boys, but I can picture how it could work pretty well drilling angles into wood clamped into the flat edge at the bottom.)
I’m going to say Pocket Hole Jig. But I have a feeling an early frost might be coming on…

By: John

John — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 03:16:24 +0000

27: Cold
28: Uh, Cold but a “warm” bonus for making me smile.
29: WARMER
30: Cold
31: First Paragraph: Warm, Second Paragraph: Warmer and Warmer still. Your brain is doing fine.
32: Cold

By: dpj

dpj — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 03:14:07 +0000

OK,

NOW I can’t sleep. This is my final statement and I’m going back to bed….
It replaces the trap jaws on the JMP and holds pieces (very nicely) to the back fence for sawing.

Good night John.

Dennis

By: dpj

dpj — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 02:20:38 +0000

I have to ask, is this a JMP attachment?

By: woodzealot

woodzealot — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 02:18:34 +0000

I don’t believe the parts rotate as the orange piece appears to be keyed. It seems that the smaller gray piece slides along the larger gray piece and that the orange piece, sandwhiched between the two then extends further, with all pieces remaining in the same plane/axis.

If Chris Schwarz wants one it likely has to do with hammering, sawing, or drawboring. Although it appears you could use it as a striking tool I don’t think thats it’s primary purpose, nor drawboring. Given this and previous guesses I think it’s something that assits sawing. I wish I knew what the hole was for (or a nickel for every time I’ve thought that). Since the knobs are all recessed I’m guessing the tool references more than one surface… so, some sort of hand sawing guide for cutting dead 90′s?

I know, I know… COLD!
-Charles
This is overworking the non-dominant side of my brain.

By: dpj

dpj — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 02:12:05 +0000

Is it a transformer?
I “folded it out” on paper and it has two feet….It looks like it shot itself in one foot…
Maybe it sets on a shelf and you drill the next shelf hole with it????