[Woodcarver] Tool Organizing

[Wilson Gilinsky]

Stephan...

I had been told at some time in the distant past that magnets might change the structure of the molecules in the steel and make the tools hard to sharpen.  Don't know about the truth in this...maybe it's one of those rumors that go about periodically...perhaps someone can tell us.  Good luck on your project.

Wilson in Vista
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  From: R. Stephan Toman 
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  Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 6:57 AM
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        I am in process of designing a new work area for the carving benches in my shop.  For years I have tended to end up with a fairly huge pile of gouges all over my bench by the time I am at the end of a project, which is not particularly helpful to the edges and which leaves me sorting through a stack of jackstraws to find whatever particular tool I need.  Being a procrastinator I have never actually made the time to resolve this problem of clutter, but I do have the opportunity now to plan a carving area from the floor up.  The question I would like input on is this:  Have any of you ever used those magnetic tool bars that cooks use for their cutlery to keep your bench-top free of tools?  I have had an idea for a vertical tool rack which would utilize the magnetic bars to hold and keep in order the array of gouges I might be using at any given time, but it just dawned on me that this arrangement would eventually lightly magnetize the shanks of the tools as well.  I am curious as to whether anyone has tried this, and whether it has resulted in more aggravation than that of the problem it is trying to solve.

  Thanks muchly,

  Stephan Toman


  R. Stephan Toman - master woodcarver & furniture-maker

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