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[George Farrell]

On Mar 14, 2004, at 12:21 PM, ghoztdawg wrote:

> Has anyone used the Flextool 11 piece travel kit?  How do you like 
> it?-John:O)

YES.
   The tools comes presharpened and is excellent.  After using it for 
awhile, I got
tired of pulling a blade out to switch to another, and since I no 
longer can
travel much, I made a set of permanent handles.  I copied the shape of 
the kit
handle (tho I did shorten it a bit).  The new handles were made in two 
pieces
with a shallow groove for the shank of the bit to rest in and the 
pieces were
then glued together with 5 minute epoxy.  Works great.
To store them, I took a short length of 2X4 and drilled 3/4 (I think) 
holes
almost all the way thru the 3-1/2 width for the gouges to rest in.  The 
holes
as drilled are a little tight which is easily corrected using the deep 
U down the
two sides to take off a tiny shaving.  A leatherette from an old purse, 
glued on
on one side of the 2X4, going over the handles to a velcro strip on the 
other
side of the 2X4 keeps the tools all in place for kicking around in my 
portable
tool kit.

Happiness is a tall boat and breeze to fill her sails
Have a good day
George Farrell
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