WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.480 --> 00:00:04.040 KFI AM six forty. You're listening to Dean Sharp the 2 00:00:04.080 --> 00:00:10.199 House Whisper on demand on the iHeart Radio app. Dean 3 00:00:10.279 --> 00:00:14.560 Sharp the House Whisper with you live every Saturday and 4 00:00:14.759 --> 00:00:17.640 Sunday morning. And you know what, You can also follow 5 00:00:17.719 --> 00:00:20.039 us on social media. We only do the good kind 6 00:00:20.199 --> 00:00:25.199 of social media, the uplifting, informative, inspiring kind. You can 7 00:00:25.199 --> 00:00:28.800 find us on Instagram, TikTok, Facebook x and whatever else 8 00:00:28.879 --> 00:00:32.280 is out there in social media world. Same handle for 9 00:00:32.320 --> 00:00:37.920 everybody Home with Dean and right now. On Instagram and Facebook, 10 00:00:38.200 --> 00:00:42.039 you can find our House Whisper Holiday Gift Guide. Also, 11 00:00:42.439 --> 00:00:45.840 you can follow a link over to our little corner 12 00:00:45.840 --> 00:00:48.520 of the KFI website find the gift Guide there. It's 13 00:00:48.520 --> 00:00:53.079 a downloadable PDF and all of the links are active 14 00:00:53.240 --> 00:00:55.719 or interactive so that they will take you right to 15 00:00:57.439 --> 00:01:01.159 the places where we sourced some of these tools and gear. 16 00:01:01.640 --> 00:01:04.680 So but you can follow along, just follow along, find 17 00:01:04.760 --> 00:01:07.280 us on social media, follow us there as well. All right, 18 00:01:07.280 --> 00:01:08.760 we're going to get back to the gift guide in 19 00:01:08.799 --> 00:01:11.879 a bit. Butts top of the hour, which means time 20 00:01:11.920 --> 00:01:16.799 to go to the phones. I want to talk to Greg. Hey, Greg, 21 00:01:17.200 --> 00:01:19.719 welcome home, Hidin. 22 00:01:21.000 --> 00:01:24.560 Good morning, we're habbing some uninvited house guests for the holidays. 23 00:01:25.000 --> 00:01:31.040 We found we found termites in our art workroom because 24 00:01:31.040 --> 00:01:33.719 they're leaving droppings out of a little tiny hole in 25 00:01:33.760 --> 00:01:38.640 the wall. So they've been chewing their way right through 26 00:01:38.640 --> 00:01:41.200 the dry wall to the small little hole and leaving 27 00:01:41.239 --> 00:01:44.760 a pile of droppings on top of a bookcase. So 28 00:01:44.840 --> 00:01:48.959 we have three cats and we prefer a non tent 29 00:01:49.120 --> 00:01:53.799 solution to this. So is there some premieer exterminator in 30 00:01:53.840 --> 00:01:58.519 Orange County that offers some effective non tent treatment. 31 00:02:00.239 --> 00:02:04.319 Yes, there is, Yes there is, and not currently a 32 00:02:04.359 --> 00:02:06.959 sponsor of the show, although we're begging them to be. 33 00:02:07.560 --> 00:02:09.719 But I will give you this recommendation. I think you 34 00:02:09.759 --> 00:02:15.280 should call E Cola, Okay, e c O l A. 35 00:02:15.879 --> 00:02:18.039 Or you can think of it as an Eco l A. 36 00:02:20.319 --> 00:02:29.280 Just fantastic, fantastic pest control company, very caring, very individualized 37 00:02:29.319 --> 00:02:33.159 in their approach to every single problem. Now will they 38 00:02:33.240 --> 00:02:37.039 ten sure if if they have to, But they are 39 00:02:37.080 --> 00:02:41.120 a company that understands that tentting is the nuclear option 40 00:02:41.479 --> 00:02:44.120 that you only go to when all else has failed 41 00:02:44.240 --> 00:02:47.520 or things have gone too far for too long. They 42 00:02:47.639 --> 00:02:52.960 use all sorts of methodologies, everything from a bark extract 43 00:02:53.599 --> 00:02:59.879 to to deter termites in the first place, to a 44 00:03:00.759 --> 00:03:04.400 citrus oils to in one of the things they do 45 00:03:04.439 --> 00:03:07.719 which I absolutely love. Our heat treatments. They can spot 46 00:03:07.759 --> 00:03:11.759 heat treat, they can laser heat treat all sorts of areas. 47 00:03:11.800 --> 00:03:15.000 There are so many options. I'm glad you just even 48 00:03:15.120 --> 00:03:17.520 raise the question, Greg. There are so many options when 49 00:03:17.520 --> 00:03:23.159 it comes to pest control that are incredibly effective and 50 00:03:23.319 --> 00:03:28.240 have nothing to do with the nasty gas based chemicals 51 00:03:28.280 --> 00:03:31.759 that are soaking the house. And this is a company 52 00:03:31.800 --> 00:03:33.879 that is at the very tip of that spear when 53 00:03:33.879 --> 00:03:36.919 it comes to it. They cover all of southern California 54 00:03:37.280 --> 00:03:41.400 and so they're all over oc and we'll be happy 55 00:03:41.439 --> 00:03:45.400 to help you figure it all out, very very customized 56 00:03:45.879 --> 00:03:49.159 and reasonable in their approach, and I think you will 57 00:03:49.199 --> 00:03:51.759 be very very happy. And that's how you should approach 58 00:03:51.840 --> 00:03:55.159 this situation, because there's no sense in tenting a house 59 00:03:55.319 --> 00:04:00.319 just because you found some evidence of termites in one location. Okay, 60 00:04:01.000 --> 00:04:04.719 unless you've completely had the house, you know, chewed up 61 00:04:04.759 --> 00:04:08.599 and eaten from top to bottom, and you find all 62 00:04:08.680 --> 00:04:12.319 these kinds of things everywhere. Tinting is not the option. 63 00:04:12.560 --> 00:04:14.479 Tentting is not where you should go. You should just 64 00:04:14.520 --> 00:04:16.920 go with a localized effective treatment. 65 00:04:18.160 --> 00:04:21.639 Are these effective, these oils or heat or. 66 00:04:21.279 --> 00:04:26.360 Whatever incredibly effective? Incredibly effective? I still am surprised that 67 00:04:26.519 --> 00:04:28.680 not more people have, for instance, even if it was 68 00:04:28.680 --> 00:04:31.800 a whole house problem. By the way, Greg, I still 69 00:04:32.160 --> 00:04:39.279 want to hear from the folks that eat ecola that 70 00:04:38.319 --> 00:04:42.879 that we can avoid the tinting, because even okay, so 71 00:04:42.920 --> 00:04:45.639 as an alternative to tenting, I'm just gonna kind of 72 00:04:45.720 --> 00:04:51.560 tout this one technology. Heat technology is superheating the house 73 00:04:51.839 --> 00:04:54.959 up to I'm trying to remember what temperature it is. 74 00:04:54.959 --> 00:04:56.519 Is it one hundred and thirty or one hundred and 75 00:04:56.600 --> 00:05:01.199 forty degrees interior that they hold it something like yeah, anyway, 76 00:05:01.680 --> 00:05:05.079 and so instead of having to, you know, to bag 77 00:05:05.199 --> 00:05:09.000 up all the food and and move out for three 78 00:05:09.120 --> 00:05:11.639 or four days, and you know, this whole kind of 79 00:05:11.839 --> 00:05:16.319 thing a heat treatment on a house, because what happens 80 00:05:16.399 --> 00:05:20.800 is at a certain temperature level, the colonies just die. 81 00:05:20.959 --> 00:05:26.000 They just die. And so it's as an effective as 82 00:05:26.160 --> 00:05:30.519 a killer as any of the gases are intenting. You 83 00:05:30.560 --> 00:05:33.199 can treat an entire house this way. All you have 84 00:05:33.279 --> 00:05:36.800 to remove or protect or things that could melt at 85 00:05:36.800 --> 00:05:40.839 that temperature. Otherwise you do nothing and guess what. They 86 00:05:40.879 --> 00:05:42.800 start at like eight in the morning and they're done 87 00:05:42.839 --> 00:05:45.720 by five that night and you're in your house the 88 00:05:45.800 --> 00:05:49.279 same day. Okay, so you just out for a day. Yeah, 89 00:05:49.319 --> 00:05:52.199 and you're not even spending the night anywhere else and 90 00:05:52.360 --> 00:05:56.000 there's no residue of any It was just heat. So yeah, 91 00:05:56.040 --> 00:05:59.079 there are some really really effective ways to do it. 92 00:05:59.120 --> 00:06:01.959 And Eco is a great company here in southern California. 93 00:06:02.000 --> 00:06:05.839 I hope you're listening ecoll it because you know, we 94 00:06:05.920 --> 00:06:09.399 should talk it up in twenty twenty five. But yeah, honestly, 95 00:06:09.519 --> 00:06:13.720 my honest assessment, it's a fantastic company. Give them a shot. 96 00:06:15.040 --> 00:06:19.040 It sounds good. Our big concern is I'm a photographer 97 00:06:19.079 --> 00:06:22.560 and my wife is an artist, and so we're concerned 98 00:06:22.800 --> 00:06:29.040 about any damage to photographs, artwork, pints, drawings, paintings, you know, 99 00:06:29.439 --> 00:06:30.600 in that particular room. 100 00:06:31.480 --> 00:06:34.360 Yeah, yeah, I get it. I get it. And the 101 00:06:34.759 --> 00:06:37.360 gas process not a good thing. You just you never 102 00:06:37.399 --> 00:06:41.160 know how it interacts with things. So again, the heat treatment, 103 00:06:41.639 --> 00:06:43.279 just because I'm talking about it, I don't even know 104 00:06:43.319 --> 00:06:45.360 if that's the right one for you, guys. But the 105 00:06:45.399 --> 00:06:47.800 point is you want to deal with a pest control 106 00:06:47.920 --> 00:06:52.600 company that has a an arsenal of options, a full 107 00:06:52.800 --> 00:06:55.639 toolbox of options, not somebody who just says, well, we 108 00:06:55.720 --> 00:07:00.079 extent the place. Okay, Well yeah, okay, how about a 109 00:07:00.120 --> 00:07:06.000 little bit of creativity and effectiveness right where the problem 110 00:07:06.079 --> 00:07:08.439 is happening. Because the chances of you having a full 111 00:07:08.480 --> 00:07:12.439 house infestation GREG are actually very low, they're very low. 112 00:07:13.759 --> 00:07:17.000 Well, thank you for that reassurance, and we'll get a call, 113 00:07:17.040 --> 00:07:18.160 we'll see what they have to say. 114 00:07:18.639 --> 00:07:20.560 Awesome, and then give me a call back and let 115 00:07:20.560 --> 00:07:23.399 me know how it goes. I appreciate the question and 116 00:07:23.480 --> 00:07:25.720 the call. That's why we take calls, you know, because 117 00:07:25.720 --> 00:07:28.000 everybody who's listening gets to you know, kind of the 118 00:07:28.759 --> 00:07:31.600 what do they say, A rising tide lifts all boats. 119 00:07:31.639 --> 00:07:35.519 Everybody's like, okay, that's how we should deal with it exactly. 120 00:07:36.759 --> 00:07:40.040 You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from 121 00:07:40.160 --> 00:07:41.680 KFI AM six forty. 122 00:07:43.319 --> 00:07:46.399 Thanks for joining us on the program on this gorgeous, 123 00:07:46.959 --> 00:07:52.040 gorgeous Sunday morning, the first of December twenty twenty four 124 00:07:52.920 --> 00:07:57.160 here in southern California. I hope it is lovely everywhere 125 00:07:57.439 --> 00:08:00.680 or where you are specifically. I hope you've got as 126 00:08:00.800 --> 00:08:03.519 much of a gorgeous day to enjoy, although I'm sure 127 00:08:03.560 --> 00:08:06.480 the temperature might be a little different. We're in the 128 00:08:06.519 --> 00:08:11.360 low seventies here today. Pretty impressive, very impressive. That's why 129 00:08:11.439 --> 00:08:14.959 you live in southern California. That's what I'm saying. All Right, 130 00:08:15.000 --> 00:08:18.040 we're doing our holiday gift guide. We're gonna come back 131 00:08:18.079 --> 00:08:20.000 to the phones in a bit because right now, you 132 00:08:20.040 --> 00:08:21.879 know what, we don't have any calls on the board. 133 00:08:22.000 --> 00:08:25.120 I get it, I so get It's just a lazy 134 00:08:25.160 --> 00:08:29.720 Sunday morning. You're just listening. It's great. Great, back to 135 00:08:29.800 --> 00:08:32.080 the gift guide and we'll head back to the phones 136 00:08:32.399 --> 00:08:38.600 in a little bit. Where did I leave ovidency pliers coping? Oh? Okay, 137 00:08:40.480 --> 00:08:45.919 an inflator now, this is a priceier gift. Okay, a 138 00:08:46.000 --> 00:08:51.840 battery powered inflator. Now, this is not just a replacement 139 00:08:51.879 --> 00:08:54.960 for the bicycle pump. They really are far more effective 140 00:08:55.000 --> 00:08:59.080 and serious tools than that. But yeah, it can be 141 00:08:59.159 --> 00:09:03.799 used for everything from you know, sports equipment, to bicycle 142 00:09:03.879 --> 00:09:09.519 tires to automobile tires and everything in between. This is 143 00:09:09.639 --> 00:09:15.080 a relatively new or I should say newer kind of 144 00:09:15.159 --> 00:09:19.919 horizon of a tool or category of tool that all 145 00:09:19.960 --> 00:09:24.559 of the major power tool manufacturers have embraced and have 146 00:09:24.720 --> 00:09:28.279 their own version of and I should say this. I'm 147 00:09:28.279 --> 00:09:30.240 going to use this as a jumping off point for 148 00:09:30.320 --> 00:09:34.720 this little speech because I've said it before and it's 149 00:09:35.240 --> 00:09:38.440 worth repeating. If you've never heard me say before that, 150 00:09:38.720 --> 00:09:41.159 you know you'll notice that there's a lot of Milwaukee 151 00:09:41.159 --> 00:09:45.360 tools on the gift guide here. Okay, that's simply because 152 00:09:46.320 --> 00:09:50.799 I am a Milwaukee tool kind of guy. But I 153 00:09:50.840 --> 00:09:56.320 said earlier, I don't own exclusively Milwaukee tool not even 154 00:09:56.399 --> 00:10:03.120 close do I own exclusively Milwaukee tools. But there's a 155 00:10:03.120 --> 00:10:09.639 certain wisdom, a utilitarian wisdom to finding a major line 156 00:10:10.000 --> 00:10:16.159 of power tools, and if at all possible, buying within 157 00:10:16.240 --> 00:10:19.600 that family. And the main reason is this, especially in 158 00:10:19.799 --> 00:10:23.200 terms of corded I mean, I'm sorry, cordless okay, corded 159 00:10:23.240 --> 00:10:26.120 power tools. I don't care what you do, okay, because 160 00:10:26.120 --> 00:10:30.240 you plug those in. But the power supply for battery 161 00:10:30.360 --> 00:10:35.480 powered tools are interchangeable if you're buying tools in the 162 00:10:35.559 --> 00:10:38.720 same family. Not not everyone, because there are different sizes 163 00:10:38.759 --> 00:10:42.120 of batteries. But the point is I always look when 164 00:10:42.120 --> 00:10:44.840 I'm needing a power tool, I always look to Milwaukee first, 165 00:10:44.960 --> 00:10:48.759 because I have a lot of battery powered Milwaukee Tools, 166 00:10:48.799 --> 00:10:50.919 and it means that I can just buy the tool 167 00:10:51.039 --> 00:10:55.200 alone and I don't have to quite often rebuy the battery. 168 00:10:55.559 --> 00:10:59.879 And if you're getting somebody started on their power tool 169 00:11:00.120 --> 00:11:04.440 journey as a gift giver this holiday season, you should 170 00:11:04.440 --> 00:11:07.200 take that into consideration. And you should also take in 171 00:11:07.360 --> 00:11:10.320 consideration if you're planning on getting them a power tool, 172 00:11:11.200 --> 00:11:17.080 if they've already embraced a family of powered of battery 173 00:11:17.120 --> 00:11:20.639 powered power tools. Okay, because if they already have, then 174 00:11:20.759 --> 00:11:25.000 try to buy within that family so that we don't 175 00:11:25.039 --> 00:11:28.879 have to keep buying new batteries for everything, because that 176 00:11:28.919 --> 00:11:32.759 gets unwieldy. Right. I've got Bosh batteries charging over here, 177 00:11:32.799 --> 00:11:35.480 and I've got Dwalt batteries charging over there, and Milwaukee 178 00:11:35.600 --> 00:11:38.559 batteries charging over there, you know, because those batteries, you know, 179 00:11:38.639 --> 00:11:42.360 they don't interact with other brands. So if at all possible, 180 00:11:42.799 --> 00:11:46.919 buy within that particular family. So that's why Milwaukee Tools 181 00:11:46.919 --> 00:11:49.120 are showing up in the gift Guide. But I want 182 00:11:49.120 --> 00:11:52.200 to make it really clear, the most important part of 183 00:11:52.240 --> 00:11:55.879 the Gift Guide is to spark these ideas, okay for you, 184 00:11:56.679 --> 00:12:00.559 not necessarily to drive you directly to one specific products. 185 00:12:00.559 --> 00:12:04.919 So the idea of a cordless inflator so so valuable. 186 00:12:04.960 --> 00:12:07.320 And I'm about to describe the Milwaukee But what I'm 187 00:12:07.360 --> 00:12:11.240 about to say applies to Yes, I'm mean answer that question. 188 00:12:11.440 --> 00:12:14.399 Does Dwald have an inflator, Yes they do. Does Makida 189 00:12:14.519 --> 00:12:17.759 have an infla, Yes they do. How about Bosh? Yeah, 190 00:12:17.799 --> 00:12:21.799 all the major power tool manufacturers have their own version 191 00:12:21.960 --> 00:12:25.279 of this, so you could buy within that family of tools. Okay, 192 00:12:25.960 --> 00:12:30.240 it's a pearl of wisdom, the Milwaukee inflator. How awesome 193 00:12:30.279 --> 00:12:33.799 is it? It's pretty dang awesome. Whenever I'm working on 194 00:12:33.799 --> 00:12:37.240 one of our bicycles and repairing a tire or just 195 00:12:37.279 --> 00:12:40.440 doing whatever, or maybe it's been a couple three weeks 196 00:12:40.759 --> 00:12:43.480 since we've ridden, and I pull out the bikes and 197 00:12:43.519 --> 00:12:45.720 I just want to make sure everything is topped off 198 00:12:45.960 --> 00:12:49.000 just right, that the tires are fully inflated, because even 199 00:12:49.039 --> 00:12:52.600 a good tire can go down over time because air 200 00:12:52.799 --> 00:12:56.639 moves through those membranes. Then you know, I grab the 201 00:12:56.679 --> 00:12:58.840 inflator and all you have to do is you look 202 00:12:58.879 --> 00:13:00.679 on the side of the tire, you like, what's the 203 00:13:00.879 --> 00:13:05.559 recommended pso eighty PSI, and you start up the inflator, 204 00:13:05.559 --> 00:13:09.600 Pop the battery in and power it on. You set 205 00:13:09.639 --> 00:13:13.279 the screen to eighty PSI and you press go, and 206 00:13:13.360 --> 00:13:17.360 it's simply it's a pressure gauge. It reads the tire pressure. 207 00:13:17.480 --> 00:13:21.399 It inflates to exactly the psi that you have set 208 00:13:21.440 --> 00:13:24.639 it to, and then it stops. And it's just that easy. 209 00:13:25.000 --> 00:13:29.279 It's brilliant. They save time. They're so dang convenient. Milwaukee 210 00:13:29.279 --> 00:13:31.600 has two different sizes. The one in the gift guide 211 00:13:31.639 --> 00:13:35.080 is the larger, beefier one. The only difference between the 212 00:13:35.080 --> 00:13:39.320 two is time. Okay, so this is a let's see here. 213 00:13:39.440 --> 00:13:44.000 This is one hundred and forty one dollar inflator, cordless inflator. 214 00:13:44.480 --> 00:13:48.559 The difference is time, meaning how fast it inflates, which 215 00:13:48.679 --> 00:13:53.519 on a bicycle and a basketball or a football is negligible. 216 00:13:53.759 --> 00:13:56.360 If that's all you're doing, then you know by the smaller, 217 00:13:56.600 --> 00:14:00.120 less expensive inflator. But if car tires are going to 218 00:14:00.120 --> 00:14:02.919 be a part of this as well, and you wanted 219 00:14:02.960 --> 00:14:05.879 to get it done fast, then there you go. And 220 00:14:05.919 --> 00:14:08.000 this is not the kind of inflator that I'm recommending 221 00:14:08.039 --> 00:14:10.039 that you keep in the trunk of the car, right 222 00:14:10.080 --> 00:14:13.480 because not necessarily going to help you out if you 223 00:14:13.559 --> 00:14:17.559 get a blowout or a bad leak somewhere that creates 224 00:14:17.559 --> 00:14:20.679 a flat. But the point is if you are just 225 00:14:20.879 --> 00:14:23.919 changing tire pressure because the season has changed, because the 226 00:14:24.000 --> 00:14:27.879 average ambient temperature outside has changed, all that kind of stuff, 227 00:14:28.039 --> 00:14:31.960 this enabled you to do just that. It's a super 228 00:14:32.039 --> 00:14:35.600 creative gift. Most people beam when they see it because 229 00:14:35.600 --> 00:14:38.080 they're like, oh my gosh, this is so awesome, and 230 00:14:38.120 --> 00:14:42.039 it's so easy to use, and they're built really well. 231 00:14:42.080 --> 00:14:44.799 Because this is not some as seen on TV thing. 232 00:14:45.240 --> 00:14:49.919 These are inflating machines that are designed by every major 233 00:14:50.000 --> 00:14:55.000 manufacturer of handheld power tools. There you go, the Milwaukee 234 00:14:55.559 --> 00:15:01.600 battery powered inflator or whatever family of inflator your particular 235 00:15:01.679 --> 00:15:04.759 loved one has already a bunch of power tools for 236 00:15:04.919 --> 00:15:09.200 and save the batteries. Okay, when we come back, let's 237 00:15:09.240 --> 00:15:12.120 talk about something that was a little pricey. Let's go 238 00:15:12.240 --> 00:15:16.480 back into the twenty dollars or less category and talk 239 00:15:16.519 --> 00:15:21.720 about a hammerless tool that I think every single homeowner 240 00:15:21.759 --> 00:15:22.279 should own. 241 00:15:23.480 --> 00:15:26.799 You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from 242 00:15:26.919 --> 00:15:28.679 KFI AM six forty. 243 00:15:30.120 --> 00:15:33.279 Your Home Dean Sharp, the house Whisper, Thanks for joining 244 00:15:33.360 --> 00:15:35.600 us on the program. We are right in the middle 245 00:15:35.960 --> 00:15:40.960 of our twenty twenty four house Whisper Holiday Gift Guide. 246 00:15:41.000 --> 00:15:44.840 You can follow along. If you go to Instagram or 247 00:15:44.840 --> 00:15:48.440 Facebook Home with Dean, you will find the gift guide 248 00:15:48.639 --> 00:15:52.559 right there waiting for you, with photos of everything that 249 00:15:52.600 --> 00:15:57.320 I'm talking about and the places and the prices that 250 00:15:57.360 --> 00:15:59.840 you can find them at. You go to the KFI website, 251 00:16:00.000 --> 00:16:03.919 our little corner of the KFI website, the Dean Sharp page, 252 00:16:04.039 --> 00:16:07.600 and you will find the gift guide downloadable there and 253 00:16:07.679 --> 00:16:10.759 on that version the links are actually live and interactive, 254 00:16:10.799 --> 00:16:12.480 so you can just click on the link and get 255 00:16:12.519 --> 00:16:14.919 to the source of where we sourced these. You can 256 00:16:14.919 --> 00:16:16.799 find them many many places, but if you want a 257 00:16:16.799 --> 00:16:20.039 little help sourcing them directly, you can do it that 258 00:16:20.159 --> 00:16:23.799 either way. Just follow along with me as we go 259 00:16:23.919 --> 00:16:26.679 through bits and pieces. I'd probably not could get to 260 00:16:26.759 --> 00:16:29.279 everything today, but I'm trying to cover as many as 261 00:16:29.320 --> 00:16:32.960 i can. All Right, here's a great little you call 262 00:16:33.039 --> 00:16:37.159 it a gift stocking stuffer, however it falls with you 263 00:16:37.240 --> 00:16:41.480 in this category. The name of this is literally the 264 00:16:41.519 --> 00:16:46.000 company is Hammerless Tool. Okay, and I've talked about these before. 265 00:16:46.080 --> 00:16:50.399 These are brilliant. These are you know, for lack of 266 00:16:50.480 --> 00:16:54.960 a better term, nail sets or taps. Okay, a nail 267 00:16:55.039 --> 00:16:59.759 set is usually just a long piece of steel that 268 00:16:59.840 --> 00:17:02.600 you put against something the head of a nail, to 269 00:17:02.840 --> 00:17:05.359 set it down below the surface of the wood or 270 00:17:05.400 --> 00:17:08.200 whatever is you're nailing it into. You hit it with 271 00:17:08.200 --> 00:17:10.720 a hammer, and for a lot of people that can 272 00:17:10.759 --> 00:17:15.000 be a tricky kind of a thing. And when these 273 00:17:15.160 --> 00:17:18.440 came out at first, I was like, hmm, I wonder 274 00:17:18.440 --> 00:17:21.480 how that well this works? And man, they're brilliant. It's 275 00:17:21.519 --> 00:17:25.599 a double ended nail set, one side very very small, 276 00:17:25.680 --> 00:17:27.960 the other a little bit larger for larger nails, and 277 00:17:27.960 --> 00:17:36.119 in between the two is an industrial strength spring that 278 00:17:36.680 --> 00:17:38.400 what you do. All you do is you put the 279 00:17:38.440 --> 00:17:42.400 head of this thing on the nail in question, pull 280 00:17:42.559 --> 00:17:46.200 back the spring and let it go. And that little 281 00:17:46.359 --> 00:17:53.839 impact that the spring collapsing again creates is amazingly nine 282 00:17:53.880 --> 00:17:58.519 times out of ten plenty enough to beautifully set a 283 00:17:58.599 --> 00:18:01.960 nail without have to tap it or hit it with 284 00:18:02.079 --> 00:18:05.640 a hammer. They are so convenient that whenever I'm doing 285 00:18:05.759 --> 00:18:08.200 finished work, I always have one of these in my 286 00:18:08.279 --> 00:18:12.920 bags right on hand, because I'd rather use this than 287 00:18:13.279 --> 00:18:16.039 pull the hammer out and have you know, both hands 288 00:18:16.480 --> 00:18:19.200 tied up. It just there's just no reason to pull 289 00:18:19.240 --> 00:18:21.359 the hammer out when you've got this little guy. I've 290 00:18:21.400 --> 00:18:25.119 got professional painters who use these constantly. I think Mario 291 00:18:25.200 --> 00:18:27.519 actually is the one who introduced me to it. He 292 00:18:27.599 --> 00:18:29.599 was using it one day. I'm like, Mario, what the 293 00:18:29.599 --> 00:18:32.599 heck is that? And then we had this long conversation 294 00:18:32.680 --> 00:18:35.279 about it, and he said he wouldn't do a job 295 00:18:35.319 --> 00:18:38.759 without it. So, whether you're prepping something for paint or 296 00:18:38.920 --> 00:18:43.880 just some general finish work, these are brilliant eighteen dollars 297 00:18:43.920 --> 00:18:48.000 for this hammerless tool, big spring in between two nail sets. 298 00:18:48.160 --> 00:18:50.519 And you know what I love using these four is 299 00:18:50.839 --> 00:18:55.759 popping door hinges hinge pins out without getting here's where 300 00:18:55.839 --> 00:18:59.480 you know, And I'm okay, I've been doing this a 301 00:18:59.519 --> 00:19:03.160 long time. I have no issues worrying about getting a 302 00:19:03.160 --> 00:19:06.160 hammer out and using a nail set with a hammer. 303 00:19:06.200 --> 00:19:08.519 I've done it my entire life. I'm not worried about 304 00:19:08.519 --> 00:19:11.640 my hand or materials. But when it comes to popping 305 00:19:11.759 --> 00:19:15.400 hingepins out to take a door on and off, I'm 306 00:19:15.440 --> 00:19:18.839 always concerned about the hammer there because it's so dang 307 00:19:19.000 --> 00:19:21.720 close to the edge of the trim and the casing 308 00:19:21.799 --> 00:19:25.440 and the door that it could scrape if you get 309 00:19:25.440 --> 00:19:29.480 it even slightly misaligned. And so to use one of 310 00:19:29.519 --> 00:19:32.680 these spring hammerless tools and not have to get a 311 00:19:32.759 --> 00:19:37.440 hammer anywhere near your door or your doorcasing. Yeah, that's 312 00:19:37.599 --> 00:19:42.000 that's the way to go. Eighteen bucks for this hammerless tool. 313 00:19:43.759 --> 00:19:46.759 Sticking with the carpentry thing, this is a jump up 314 00:19:46.759 --> 00:19:49.559 in price. This is now an eighty nine or ninety 315 00:19:49.680 --> 00:19:54.680 dollars tool. But if you got somebody who's serious about 316 00:19:54.720 --> 00:20:01.359 doing finished carpentry work and the temptation is to, you know, 317 00:20:01.440 --> 00:20:04.319 get a get a circular saw out and make a 318 00:20:04.400 --> 00:20:10.279 beautiful clean cut, straight as an arrow across a large 319 00:20:10.319 --> 00:20:14.480 board or piece of plywood, something like that, then the 320 00:20:14.559 --> 00:20:17.039 way to do that is with what we call a 321 00:20:17.119 --> 00:20:20.559 track saw. A track saw is a saw that is 322 00:20:20.599 --> 00:20:25.359 embedded in basically a rail that it cannot do anything 323 00:20:25.559 --> 00:20:30.960 but make a perfectly straight cut. Okay, so here's the thing. 324 00:20:32.079 --> 00:20:37.960 Track saws are amazing, They are fantastic. They do exactly 325 00:20:38.039 --> 00:20:41.599 what they promise to do. They also start at about 326 00:20:41.960 --> 00:20:44.880 five hundred dollars for a good track saw, a rail 327 00:20:45.039 --> 00:20:49.279 integrated tracksaw. That's not the one that I'm recommending for you. Okay, 328 00:20:49.599 --> 00:20:52.480 what I'm recommending for you as a gift to your 329 00:20:52.519 --> 00:20:57.160 loved one is not the saw, but a track that 330 00:20:57.319 --> 00:21:02.640 is specifically designed. I think it's Craig Craig. I think 331 00:21:02.640 --> 00:21:07.000 this is a Craig track. It's specifically designed to mount 332 00:21:07.160 --> 00:21:11.799 the circular saw that you've already got, that they already own. 333 00:21:11.960 --> 00:21:15.319 It literally will mount just about any circular saw to 334 00:21:15.519 --> 00:21:20.880 this track, and then it converts your standard handheld freehand 335 00:21:20.960 --> 00:21:26.960 circular saw into a straight edge cutting machine. And what 336 00:21:27.039 --> 00:21:30.640 does that cost? That cost eighty nine dollars? Okay, so yeah, 337 00:21:30.880 --> 00:21:35.200 that's not an inexpensive gift, but it's also not five 338 00:21:35.359 --> 00:21:39.400 hundred dollars, which is where real track saws that are 339 00:21:39.400 --> 00:21:42.039 a fully integrated start, because you're also paying for a 340 00:21:42.079 --> 00:21:46.839 second saw. And for the classic di wire who's not 341 00:21:47.079 --> 00:21:51.200 using a track saw every day as their profession, there's 342 00:21:51.279 --> 00:21:54.759 no need for them to spend five six, seven hundred 343 00:21:54.839 --> 00:21:57.759 dollars on a track saw that gets picked up maybe 344 00:21:57.839 --> 00:22:01.559 once a year, if that right. But the track, the 345 00:22:01.599 --> 00:22:04.240 track itself that they can mount their regular saw to 346 00:22:04.960 --> 00:22:08.880 that is worth its weight in gold. So I think 347 00:22:08.920 --> 00:22:11.880 it's by Craig. You can find it again on the 348 00:22:11.920 --> 00:22:16.799 gift guide eighty nine dollars and it's a total winner, 349 00:22:16.880 --> 00:22:20.039 all right. The next thing we have to talk about 350 00:22:20.640 --> 00:22:27.680 is some accessories for a saw that your loved one 351 00:22:27.720 --> 00:22:31.160 may already possess, and that is a table saw. If 352 00:22:32.559 --> 00:22:35.440 you've got somebody who likes working with wood and they 353 00:22:35.440 --> 00:22:39.480 own a table saw, okay, big old tablesaw, or even 354 00:22:39.799 --> 00:22:43.160 a portable tablesaw, here's what we need to know about 355 00:22:43.160 --> 00:22:48.000 a table saw. Table saws are statistically by far the 356 00:22:48.039 --> 00:22:53.720 most dangerous carpentry tool on planet Earth. They are strong, 357 00:22:54.400 --> 00:22:59.000 they are powerful. They have an open blade without a 358 00:22:59.079 --> 00:23:03.920 cover that is spinning right at you. And the trick 359 00:23:03.960 --> 00:23:06.119 of a table saw is that you're using it to 360 00:23:06.519 --> 00:23:08.960 put a piece of wood and ride it along a 361 00:23:09.039 --> 00:23:14.200 rail and get a straight cut. And most people who 362 00:23:14.319 --> 00:23:19.359 use table saws get their hands way too close to 363 00:23:19.759 --> 00:23:24.599 that blade. Now there are saws out there should probably 364 00:23:24.599 --> 00:23:27.759 be a law to not manufacture a saw other than this. 365 00:23:28.039 --> 00:23:32.559 A sau stop makes a beautiful table saw with an 366 00:23:32.599 --> 00:23:36.440 electric circuitry sensor that if it comes into contact with 367 00:23:36.680 --> 00:23:42.640 anything that is related to the human body whatsoever, within 368 00:23:42.720 --> 00:23:47.720 a micro second, it stops and retracts the blade so 369 00:23:47.759 --> 00:23:51.200 that the most that will happen is the tiniest of 370 00:23:51.359 --> 00:23:54.839 nicks in the skin. What a brilliant idea. But these 371 00:23:54.839 --> 00:23:58.960 are expensive table saws. I mean they're pricey, pricey table sauce. 372 00:23:59.079 --> 00:24:01.599 I've had them on the gift before for that super 373 00:24:01.680 --> 00:24:05.200 high end purchase. But this year, what I want you 374 00:24:05.279 --> 00:24:09.160 to focus on is a set of accessories for a 375 00:24:09.240 --> 00:24:16.960 table saw that promote safety, safety, safety, safety, including and 376 00:24:17.000 --> 00:24:20.920 not at the expense of brilliantly easy cuts. And to 377 00:24:20.960 --> 00:24:23.200 do that, we need to talk about what's called a 378 00:24:23.240 --> 00:24:28.400 featherboard and a pushblock. Okay, these are things that hold 379 00:24:28.480 --> 00:24:31.359 the wood in place so that you don't have to 380 00:24:31.359 --> 00:24:33.400 get your hands too close to the blade or your 381 00:24:33.440 --> 00:24:36.400 loved one. And we'll talk about that right on the 382 00:24:36.480 --> 00:24:37.880 other side. 383 00:24:38.160 --> 00:24:41.480 You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from 384 00:24:41.559 --> 00:24:45.680 KFI AM six forty. 385 00:24:46.599 --> 00:24:50.039 Welcome to the show, Welcome home, Thanks for being here, 386 00:24:50.240 --> 00:24:56.599 Thanks for tolerating non professional talk radio. So glad that 387 00:24:56.680 --> 00:24:59.640 you're here. We are going through our holiday gift guide today, 388 00:25:00.119 --> 00:25:04.359 taking ourselves too seriously. But these are seriously good gifts. 389 00:25:04.400 --> 00:25:10.160 They really really are for the maker, the doer, the crafter, 390 00:25:11.000 --> 00:25:15.519 the hobbyist, the di wire in your life. You know 391 00:25:15.559 --> 00:25:20.640 who I'm talking about, and these are some fantastic gift 392 00:25:20.680 --> 00:25:24.839 ideas for them for this holiday season. So right before 393 00:25:24.880 --> 00:25:28.680 the break, I started this item on the gift Guide, 394 00:25:28.920 --> 00:25:33.920 very very important item for those who you know own 395 00:25:34.000 --> 00:25:36.680 a table saw. Now, table saws come in all shapes 396 00:25:36.720 --> 00:25:38.920 and sizes. These days, there are a little portable ones. 397 00:25:39.759 --> 00:25:41.680 That's the kind actually that I own. Why I have 398 00:25:41.839 --> 00:25:45.880 kind of a modified version. I have a good sized 399 00:25:46.039 --> 00:25:50.079 portable table saw in its own stand. There are little 400 00:25:50.119 --> 00:25:51.920 portable table saws you can just throw in the back 401 00:25:51.960 --> 00:25:54.839