Most useful tool on your workbench

Top 10:

1- Xacto

2- toothpicks

3- needle file

4- pin vise

5- CA glue/ Tenax 7.R 

6- cutting board (Oneida, from Target; super smooth)

7- putty

8- tweezers ( if I can use fingers, I will. Tweezers are my #1 culprit of flying pieces)

9- caliper

10- asstd set of small pliers (I can't choose one, I love them all equally)

SteveM 

ruddratt wrote:

My liquid cements and CA's. All my other tools seem sorta pointless without them.

Id half to agree

 My toenail clippers and pocket knife. The plastic toothpicks with one end bent are VERY good too.

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My 10 fingers 

on the toothpick

Bgrigg wrote:

The workbench itself. Stops almost all of the pieces from falling on the floor. The only ones that make it now are the ones that go "crunch" the second I move.

odd. I didn't realize you had a workbench on your workbench. You must post pics of this sometime.

Mine was similar to Bill's, which is my 1/4" plywood surface on top of the work bench.  I cut on it, mix paint, store things, it's a jig, cleans the crusty stuff of my putty and glue tubes (I still use it for some things), it's s straight edge, and a friend.

After that would be old #11 blades.  If there was one tool that is indispensible this is it.  Before we stole our mom's tweezers and had fancy tools like sprue cutters and etchmates, all we had were hobby knives.

I have an old, bent. and broken Badger a/b needle that I use CONSTANTLY for various reasons.  I mix things, dig things out, glue things with this little peice of trash.  I've also stuck some Blu-tac on the end of it and used it to hold things while I paint them.  I love my little metal bendy stick!