Speaker 1: KF I am six forty. You're listening to Dean Sharp
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Speaker 1: welcome home. I am Dean Sharp the House Whisper. I
Speaker 1: design custom homes, I build custom homes, and I'm also
Speaker 1: your guide to better understand that place where you live.
Speaker 1: Today on the show, we are doing part two. It's
Speaker 1: probably like Part one point one based on how far
Speaker 1: I got through this list yesterday, but part two of
Speaker 1: this year's House Whisper Holiday Gift Guide. Yeah, gift guide.
Speaker 1: It just totally it just totally escaped me. I do
Speaker 1: it every year. I write the damn thing House Whisper
Speaker 1: Holiday Gift Guide. That's what we're doing today. Lots of
Speaker 1: great stuff. It's an all tools and gear gift guide
Speaker 1: this year, which many of you will welcome. And you know,
Speaker 1: sometimes I digress, I talk about some books and some
Speaker 1: other things, and this year, you know, and just getting
Speaker 1: back to basics this year. So it's it's all tools
Speaker 1: and gear, and I'm excited to talk to you about
Speaker 1: each and every one of them so that you understand
Speaker 1: the value behind each of these suggestions. And of course
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Speaker 1: Elmer is on the board. Good morning, Elmer, Good morning Dean.
Speaker 1: How you doing by doing really good? Yeah? Did you
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Speaker 1: All right? Elmer's like, hey, man, did you have breakfast
Speaker 1: this morning? I'm hungry, like there is something I can do.
Speaker 2: He's been snacking all morning.
Speaker 1: He's been snacking all morning. He doesn't count. It's like
Speaker 1: rice crispy treats. It's not like, uh, it's not food
Speaker 1: food all right, Okay, well, I'm glad to hear you
Speaker 1: say that, Rice, Christmy treats are not food food. That's
Speaker 1: that's a good thing. That lovely voice you just heard.
Speaker 1: Eileen Gonzalez, sitting at the news desk. Good morning, Eileen,
Speaker 1: Good morning. How's it going good? Have you had breakfast
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Speaker 2: You should see. I bring a ton of food with me.
Speaker 2: It's like, I'm going to be gone for a week.
Speaker 2: I'm well prepared news and food, and I need to
Speaker 2: share with Elmore.
Speaker 1: You should share with Elmer. He could pass out, and
Speaker 1: then where would we all be? You and I both
Speaker 1: we'd be like, hello, Hello, is this Mike hot? Hello?
Speaker 1: All right? Good to have you, Bud. Appreciate you.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: Sitting across the table from me. Who look at you?
Speaker 1: Look at you. You're just amazing. My better half, still
Speaker 1: recovering from her unplanned, unexpected surgery, but recovering strong. I mean,
Speaker 1: I feel pretty good. Strong. What do we We're like
Speaker 1: day eleven, day eleven, Yeah, and you're doing good. You're
Speaker 1: doing so good. I'm going to talk about this later
Speaker 1: in the show. That that our granddaughter Olivia had to
Speaker 1: police you. Oh my gosh, that was so far over Thanksgiving.
Speaker 4: If anyone wants to go look, I did post one
Speaker 4: of her videos she posted, she actually made about five,
Speaker 4: but of her calling me out for all the things
Speaker 4: I was doing wrong. So you just go to at
Speaker 4: Tina Sharp on Instagram and I it's it's hilarious to
Speaker 4: watch her.
Speaker 1: She just out of the blue, she just decided I'm
Speaker 1: going to create a video news report.
Speaker 5: Yeah, she suddenly became an an investigative journalist hunting down
Speaker 5: yours your infractions of doctor's recovery orders.
Speaker 1: It was very funny. There were several reports that came
Speaker 1: throughout Thanksgiving Day. And then of course she doesn't post
Speaker 1: social media. She just posts to us.
Speaker 4: She just sends us she makes a video, and then.
Speaker 1: We'd all get these text messages. We're like looking at
Speaker 1: it and there and there she is. She does she
Speaker 1: does the bumper music.
Speaker 4: Yeah, she does her own music.
Speaker 1: She does her own fade in if that's what you
Speaker 1: want to call it, her head coming in from the
Speaker 1: bottom of the screen up and then a full report
Speaker 1: on Tina's crimes.
Speaker 4: Yes, and she calls me mina that's my little nickname.
Speaker 4: So she coined their mina tastrophees. Now she didn't say
Speaker 4: that in this video, but in other.
Speaker 1: Mina tastrophe past. Yeah, it might be a little overblown.
Speaker 1: It might be a little over blown, thank you, but
Speaker 1: it was adorable. It was adorable. And you're looking great. Oh,
Speaker 1: thanks so much better. All right to y'all. Here's the thing. Oh,
Speaker 1: we got some calls coming on the board. You know what.
Speaker 1: It is a beautiful, beautiful Sunday morning here in southern California.
Speaker 1: I don't know where what the weather is looking like
Speaker 1: wherever you may find yourself, but I hope it's as lovely.
Speaker 3: Today is December first, the first day of December. Christmas
Speaker 3: is twenty four days away. We've got so much to do. Friday,
Speaker 3: that's right, Friday was a Black Friday. Yesterday was small
Speaker 3: business Saturday. Tomorrow Cyber Monday. Today, today is just awesome day.
Speaker 4: He is house Whisper a gift guide, that's right, which
Speaker 4: also is posted to social media.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, yeah, tell everybody that before we run to
Speaker 1: the news.
Speaker 4: At home with Dean Instagram, Facebook, and I think that's it.
Speaker 4: I think only puts it to those two and then
Speaker 4: you can also there's a there's a link in the
Speaker 4: bio of Instagram to actually go to the KFI website
Speaker 4: and you can actually download and interactive PDF, so it
Speaker 4: has links to all of the places to buy these items.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So if you don't like like having to do
Speaker 1: the search yourself, you can go to the KFI website,
Speaker 1: our little corner of it, you know, find the Dean
Speaker 1: Sharp Corner page on the KFI website and right at
Speaker 1: the top there is the PDF that you can download,
Speaker 1: and then each of the links are active, so you
Speaker 1: just click them and boom, you're there. It doesn't mean
Speaker 1: that that's the only place you can buy this stuff,
Speaker 1: but it's where we source them this year.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and we just tried to find best prices.
Speaker 1: Best price, that kind of thing. So it's all good,
Speaker 1: all right. When we come back, let's dive back in too,
Speaker 1: part two of the House Whisper Holiday Gift Guide.
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Speaker 1: am I talking about? We are diving into part two.
Speaker 1: This is episode two of our twenty twenty four House
Speaker 1: Whisper Holiday Gift Guide. So let's get to it. Let's
Speaker 1: see here before I leave this page here on the
Speaker 1: gift guide. Oh, let's talk about a screwdrive now. In
Speaker 1: the previous episode yesterday's show, I broke through barriers that
Speaker 1: people didn't even know were there when I recommended a
Speaker 1: screwed driver set, And this particular screwdriver set that I
Speaker 1: recommended yesterday was if you're going to buy a new
Speaker 1: set of screwdrivers, you might as well get an insulated
Speaker 1: Electricians screwdriver set. And you're not going to find those
Speaker 1: over where the normal screwdrivers are sitting. You're going to
Speaker 1: find them with the electrical tools in the electrical aisle
Speaker 1: of the big box store or where the hardware store.
Speaker 1: The difference is that an electrician screwdriver set are insulated,
Speaker 1: meaning that not only the handle, but all the way
Speaker 1: down the shaft only. The only metal that's really showing
Speaker 1: is just at the tip where the actual screwdriver tip is,
Speaker 1: whether it's phillips or torques or flathead, whatever the case
Speaker 1: may be. And I think I believe for your conscientious
Speaker 1: di wire who just might get involved in some electrical
Speaker 1: activity at some point, whether it's just a switch or
Speaker 1: an outlet, why not have a screwdriver that does not
Speaker 1: have all that exposed metal on it when you're sticking
Speaker 1: it into a place, like, you know, an electrical box
Speaker 1: that may although it shouldn't if you've done your job right,
Speaker 1: but may have some live wires in there. So better
Speaker 1: safe than sorry. And these are always beautiful screwdriver sets.
Speaker 1: And do they cost more than regularly, Well, they cost
Speaker 1: more than the cheapest of screwdrivers, but generally speaking, no,
Speaker 1: they come in beautiful cases. So anyway, that was yesterday's
Speaker 1: screwdriver recommendation, but here's today's. And I've recommended this before.
Speaker 1: This says it's almost always a part of the gift guide.
Speaker 1: And that is a multi tip screwdriver, Okay, so, or
Speaker 1: a multi bit screwdriver if you want to call it that.
Speaker 1: This is the kind of screwdriver that just sends it
Speaker 1: should be in the little tool drawer, the junk drawer,
Speaker 1: your go to, right because it's got so much going
Speaker 1: on for it. But I want you to be aware
Speaker 1: of my preference when it comes to this, and I
Speaker 1: think this is a reasonable, rational professional tool using preference,
Speaker 1: and that is there are a lot of multi bit
Speaker 1: screwdrivers out there, a lot. I personally do not like
Speaker 1: the ones that store the bits in the handle. There's
Speaker 1: usually a cap and you unscrew it and then you
Speaker 1: know you got all these bits in there. And those
Speaker 1: are the ones that are like twenty one twenty four different. Okay,
Speaker 1: I get it, I get it. It's all good, and
Speaker 1: you know, other people may do better with this. But
Speaker 1: here's the thing. The bits are small and inevitably, I
Speaker 1: don't think I've ever myself used one for more than
Speaker 1: a year without losing some bits somewhere or picked up
Speaker 1: somebody else's at somebody else's home and I'm helping them
Speaker 1: out with something looking for a bit in there, and
Speaker 1: like half the things are missing, especially the one that
Speaker 1: you really wanted. They're just probably not the in my opinion,
Speaker 1: the easiest or best way to have access to this.
Speaker 1: So I would rather have a screwdriver that has fewer bits,
Speaker 1: but they are all locked in and part of the
Speaker 1: actual screwdriver shaft itself. Okay, that they're all right there
Speaker 1: for you. And that is what a screwdriver like the
Speaker 1: Milwaukee thirteen and one magnetic multi bit screwdriver is. It's
Speaker 1: like a twenty two dollars screwdriver. It's literally, you know,
Speaker 1: it's got several bits large and small Phillip's head, large
Speaker 1: and small, flathead square bits. Also, the shaft itself, being hollow,
Speaker 1: becomes a nut driver. It's just a really really solid one.
Speaker 1: And this year's version, by the way, is different than
Speaker 1: previous year's version because right in front of the handle,
Speaker 1: right before the shaft starts, there's a big what looks
Speaker 1: like a nut, like a large nut. What that is
Speaker 1: is a what they call a wrench ready bolster, and
Speaker 1: it is a nut essentially. And what that does is,
Speaker 1: let's say you've got a really tough screw to undo, okay,
Speaker 1: to take out, or one that you have got to
Speaker 1: drive in that's tough and you need a little bit
Speaker 1: more leverage, you can basically that nut is there so
Speaker 1: you can put an adjustable end wrench or a set
Speaker 1: of pliers and grab on to that thing and give
Speaker 1: you some sideways spinning torque on it. Anyway, have I
Speaker 1: ever used it that way? No, but I think it's
Speaker 1: a good ad because it's not taking up any space
Speaker 1: that would be used by anything else, so why not
Speaker 1: have it there? It's by Milwaukee, And yes, I am
Speaker 1: a little Milwaukee biased when it comes to tools in general,
Speaker 1: only because I think they're awesome. And no, not all
Speaker 1: of my tools are Milwaukee tools, not even close. Okay,
Speaker 1: but Milwaukee makes a fine tool. And this happens to
Speaker 1: be my favorite multi tip, multi bit screwdriver. So there
Speaker 1: you go. I spoke yesterday also about the you know,
Speaker 1: I waxed poetic on the usefulness of a utility knife
Speaker 1: and how you know the blades are interchangeable and so on.
Speaker 1: So you got to check out the previous episode yesterday's
Speaker 1: show on the podcast and you can hear me talk
Speaker 1: about what I think the best utility knife is out there.
Speaker 1: That does not mean that I hate pocket knives. Pocket
Speaker 1: knives are great, okay, but your typical pocket knife, the
Speaker 1: traditional pocket knife, not much use for that. Okay. They're dangerous.
Speaker 1: They're dangerous, and what I mean, is you know, the
Speaker 1: old style just fold out the blade even you know,
Speaker 1: I gotta say Swiss army pocket knives. Not a fan
Speaker 1: because the blades don't lock. I don't like a folding
Speaker 1: knife that doesn't have a locking blade, because that's a
Speaker 1: situation where you push it just the wrong way, just
Speaker 1: the wrong angle, just the wrong force forward, and all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, the blade is folding back towards your fingers.
Speaker 1: Let's not think about that, but it happens. So I
Speaker 1: like a locking blade, and there are a gabillion knives
Speaker 1: on the mark. So which one have I recommended to you?
Speaker 1: You know what, in the spirit of keeping it simple,
Speaker 1: keeping it classy, I happen to love. It's probably because
Speaker 1: my own life and heritage. I have my father's version
Speaker 1: of this still in my possession, that he bought back
Speaker 1: in the early nineteen seventies, still in perfect condition, a
Speaker 1: buck knife, the buck one ten. In fact, I think
Speaker 1: mine is the buck one ten Hunter buck knives. You know,
Speaker 1: you will hear a thousand reviews from other tactical knife
Speaker 1: makers saying, well, the buck knife doesn't live up to
Speaker 1: there's a you know what. Buck knives are still around
Speaker 1: and still going strong. You know why, because they're great
Speaker 1: knives the end period. They do their job, they feel
Speaker 1: great in your hand, they look great, the blade locks.
Speaker 1: Whether you're you know, want a knife like that because
Speaker 1: you're gonna whittle or carve, or you're a hunter, or
Speaker 1: whatever the case may be, if you want a great
Speaker 1: knife laying around that is a folding knife. Buck actually
Speaker 1: is the first company to introduce a folding knife that
Speaker 1: is as strong as non folding knives. And you know what,
Speaker 1: they've just been going strong forever. So yeah, I have
Speaker 1: a preference because of my own family heritage. I have
Speaker 1: my new one that I use, and I have my
Speaker 1: dad's who I would never use for anything because I
Speaker 1: don't want to mess it up. But the Buck one
Speaker 1: ten somebody asked me that the other day, what kind
Speaker 1: of buck knife are you going to? Oh the Buck
Speaker 1: one ten hunter? Where did that even come from? In
Speaker 1: my brain? But it's here in the gift guide and
Speaker 1: you should check it out. And by the way, I
Speaker 1: recommend the drop point. Why we'll talk about that right
Speaker 1: on the other side of the news.
Speaker 6: You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
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Speaker 1: Dean Sharp. The house Whisper here with you. We are
Speaker 1: moving through the twenty twenty four House Whisper Holiday Gift Guide.
Speaker 1: We're going to be going to the phones in a bit.
Speaker 1: The number to reach me eight three three two. Ask
Speaker 1: Dean eight three to three the numeral two Ask Dean
Speaker 1: that's coming up in just a bit. Make your call
Speaker 1: now you can get into the queue, all right. The
Speaker 1: gift Guide, by the way, you can find it online
Speaker 1: in a couple of different places on social media. You'll
Speaker 1: find it on our Instagram and Facebook page at Home
Speaker 1: with Dean. You can just follow right along on the
Speaker 1: gift Guide, or you can follow a link over to
Speaker 1: the KFI web page our little corner of it where
Speaker 1: you can download the gift Guide and all of the
Speaker 1: links to the actual shopping locations are live and interactive
Speaker 1: on that one. So either way, open up social media
Speaker 1: while you're there, why don't you follow us? But you
Speaker 1: can follow along on the gift guide as I go
Speaker 1: all right back to it. So I had said Buck
Speaker 1: Knight as a just you know, I'm not gonna repeat
Speaker 1: myself in terms of just how awesome buck knives are
Speaker 1: just a standard duty knife, pocket kind of knife to
Speaker 1: have on hand. But right at the end, right before
Speaker 1: the news, I slipped in that I prefer the drop
Speaker 1: point blade as opposed to the clipped blade. Clip blade
Speaker 1: is kind of the classic buck knife blade. And if
Speaker 1: you're gonna be carving or whittling with it, then go
Speaker 1: with the clip blade because it to the top of
Speaker 1: it swoops down, it comes out to a real sharp point,
Speaker 1: and it allows you to kind of get in there
Speaker 1: into some real tight spaces for some real tight cuts.
Speaker 1: But if anything beyond the need for getting into a
Speaker 1: really really tiny little spot like whittling or wood carving,
Speaker 1: if you get beyond that and you're just looking for
Speaker 1: multi purpose, and I prefer a drop point blade, which
Speaker 1: is a little thicker out. It's a stronger blade. It's
Speaker 1: a stronger blade, it's got more metal out there near
Speaker 1: the tip. It will last longer, it'll put up with
Speaker 1: more abuse. It's probably not quite as sexy looking as
Speaker 1: the clip point blake because that looks pretty cool, but
Speaker 1: but overall multipurpose, it's a better blake. So there you go.
Speaker 1: I have some more cutting implements to talk about a
Speaker 1: little later, but I want to do it in conjunction.
Speaker 1: Tina with a little video so that everybody can see
Speaker 1: if you have ever thought about giving the one you
Speaker 1: love an ax. I know, I know it sounds weird.
Speaker 1: You got to trust them. Trust You got to trust
Speaker 1: a person you gift an axe too. But I've got
Speaker 1: a very very strong recommendation for you, whether they just
Speaker 1: want to split wood, or they're a bushcrafter, or you
Speaker 1: just want that utility tool around for various purposes. First
Speaker 1: time on the Gift Guide that I've got one for you,
Speaker 1: the one that I personally love and use the most.
Speaker 1: But that's coming up in just a bit because we're
Speaker 1: gonna do a video with that. Uh. Here is something
Speaker 1: that everybody's been asking me about. I mean everybody. I
Speaker 1: mean a lot of people emailing saying, Hey, you know
Speaker 1: when you talked about the fireplace episode and you were
Speaker 1: talking about taking a gas log fireplace and making it
Speaker 1: sound realistic by putting a little bluetooth speaker in there,
Speaker 1: could you tell us where to get that bluetooth speaker
Speaker 1: Number seven on the Gift Guide. There it is the
Speaker 1: EWA one oh six pro micro Bluetooth speaker. Now you
Speaker 1: don't have to remember all that, but the point is
Speaker 1: this is the little speaker that I refer to as
Speaker 1: the marsh mellow. And because it's about the size of
Speaker 1: a jumbo marsh mellow, it's got a full play eight
Speaker 1: to ten hour battery life metal case that it is
Speaker 1: encased with. So this is the speaker that I put
Speaker 1: near the front of a fireplace box when the fireplace
Speaker 1: is just a gas log set. And then what you
Speaker 1: do is you take one of your devices, an iPad
Speaker 1: or a tablet or one of your phones, and you
Speaker 1: bluetooth out to that speaker. You know, one a YouTube
Speaker 1: video of a crackling fireplace that goes on for like
Speaker 1: twelve hours, and you adjust the volume and then when
Speaker 1: you stand back away from you know, just a couple
Speaker 1: of feet away from a gas log fireplace, suddenly it's
Speaker 1: a crackling, popping gas log fireplace. Now it's a real fireplace. Anyway,
Speaker 1: it's a great effect. It is so easy to do,
Speaker 1: and it makes all the difference in the world for
Speaker 1: just ambiance in a room where you're going to spend
Speaker 1: the evening with folks and the fire going, and you
Speaker 1: know what, it's just these little layers, just these little ads.
Speaker 1: So it is on the gift guide there it is right,
Speaker 1: and you'll find the link to it. And how much
Speaker 1: is this miraculous device. It's eighteen bucks, that's right. It
Speaker 1: is the size and the cost of a really good
Speaker 1: stocking stuffer. So there you go. What else, Oh, how
Speaker 1: about a set of pliers. But unlike most pliers that
Speaker 1: you've seen in the past, what if a really good wrench,
Speaker 1: like an adjustable end wrench, and a good set of
Speaker 1: like channel locking pliers got together and had a love child,
Speaker 1: Well you would end up with the ten inch plier
Speaker 1: wrench from Nippicks Nippicks nippicknit knit knit knit k n
Speaker 1: I p X. I think it's pronounced Nippicks or nips
Speaker 1: or I don't know. I don't know. It's a weird word. Anyway,
Speaker 1: really great tool manufacture, and these are fantastic. What they
Speaker 1: literally are is a set of that you can lock
Speaker 1: like a wrench, not just like a channel locking players,
Speaker 1: but truly lockable so that they keep returning, you know,
Speaker 1: like a wrench. Once you've set it on a nut,
Speaker 1: you turn it, it gives a little bit and you
Speaker 1: can reset it and reset it. And these are fantastic players.
Speaker 1: Anybody who works with these kinds of things will tell you. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that is like one of the This is like a
Speaker 1: gold element to have inside your family toolbox right there,
Speaker 1: because it does both. And usually when you find a
Speaker 1: tool that does so many things different things, you're kind
Speaker 1: of like, at least I am, I'm very skeptical because
Speaker 1: what you find out is like, Okay, technically it does
Speaker 1: fourteen things, but it does them all sort of kind
Speaker 1: of good. But this is straight up great plers, great
Speaker 1: wrench together. This is the love child tool that most
Speaker 1: home toolboxes and pro toolboxes should have. It's a sixty
Speaker 1: dollars wrench, but it's one of those lifetime wrenches that
Speaker 1: once you've got it, you will never regret having this
Speaker 1: thing available for you. Okay, all right, when we come back,
Speaker 1: let's see where are we at here? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: when we come back, let's talk about a kind of saw,
Speaker 1: a handsaw that will literally change your life, will transform you.
Speaker 1: For those of you who just want to get a
Speaker 1: little bit more into the craftsmanship side of your home,
Speaker 1: then I need to talk to you about buying the
Speaker 1: right coping saw or gifting somebody with the saw that
Speaker 1: will start them on a path that they will never regret.
Speaker 1: Going down. And also a really really cool, amazing battery
Speaker 1: operated inflation tool that is worth every penny, if not more.
Speaker 1: All of that and more when we return.
Speaker 6: You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from
Speaker 6: KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1: We are moving through our annual twenty twenty four House
Speaker 1: Whisper Holiday Gift Guide. I'm making some great gift suggestions
Speaker 1: for you, explaining why they are as good as they are,
Speaker 1: and also we've got them online you can follow along.
Speaker 1: You can find the entire gift guide on our socials
Speaker 1: on Instagram and Facebook, both Home with Dean. Also on
Speaker 1: our little corner of the KFI website you'll find the
Speaker 1: gift guide where you can download it and there all
Speaker 1: of the links are active and you can just click
Speaker 1: on those links and go straight to the stores that
Speaker 1: are selling these great products, these great to it's all
Speaker 1: tools and gear this year. So anyway, we're right in
Speaker 1: the middle of that. Coming up next break. Right at
Speaker 1: the t top of the hour, we're going to the phones.
Speaker 1: We've got a couple of calls on the board right now,
Speaker 1: but there's plenty of room for you. If you're interested,
Speaker 1: now's your chance. Eight three to three to ask Dean
Speaker 1: is the number to reach me anything that's got you
Speaker 1: scratching your head about your home? Eight three three two
Speaker 1: ask Dean. That's coming up right after the top of
Speaker 1: the hour here next segment, all right back to it.
Speaker 1: Where did I leave off? Oh? Yeah, So if you
Speaker 1: are a woodworker or a carpenter, or you have dabbled
Speaker 1: in these things, then you will understand the meaning of
Speaker 1: what I'm about to express of this little saw. If
Speaker 1: you are not, if you're a di wire who's like
Speaker 1: you know what, I would love to just I would
Speaker 1: love to do what Dean is always talking about and
Speaker 1: just introduce more craft into my home, more craftsmanship, more quality,
Speaker 1: more more conscientious quality of the deal details. Then, this,
Speaker 1: my friend, is the beginning. This is the first step
Speaker 1: in the journey of one thousand miles. Truly. Okay, No,
Speaker 1: it's not a hammer. Yeah, I mean those are great.
Speaker 1: I talked about an awesome finished hammer yesterday. But this,
Speaker 1: this sets you apart in a way you may not
Speaker 1: even realize. A really good quality coping saw A coping saw. Now,
Speaker 1: what is a coping saw? For those of you who
Speaker 1: are unaware, a coping saw is a very very small saw.
Speaker 1: Has a little handle off to the side, and it
Speaker 1: has a you know, for all intents and purposes, a bow,
Speaker 1: A large, square shaped bow that holds a very very
Speaker 1: thin blade. I mean we're talking about a metal blade,
Speaker 1: a replaceable blade that is six to eight inches long
Speaker 1: and about three sixteenths of an inch at the most
Speaker 1: a quarter of an inch, but that's a big one,
Speaker 1: about three sixteen of an inch tall, with very very
Speaker 1: tiny finishing teeth on them. For wood, Okay, this is
Speaker 1: a coping saw. A coping saw is this shape for
Speaker 1: one reason and one reason alone, because it allows you
Speaker 1: to start to you know, think of a jigsaw. Most
Speaker 1: of you know what a jigsaw is. It's a saw,
Speaker 1: a powered saw that allows you to make scrolly, kind
Speaker 1: of curvy, you know, conforming cuts on a piece of wood. Well,
Speaker 1: a coping saw is a handheld version of that, except
Speaker 1: on crack. A coping saw is a very very tiny
Speaker 1: pathway saw that makes all sorts of crazy, amazing little turns.
Speaker 1: So what's the point. It's like, well, I'm not a
Speaker 1: wood carver, Dean, so nobody in my family is a
Speaker 1: wood carver. I don't think we need a coping saw.
Speaker 1: But that's not what it's for. It's not primarily for
Speaker 1: your little handy projects, even though those hobby projects would
Speaker 1: benefit greatly by it. If you, for instance, know somebody
Speaker 1: who you love who is thinking about doing you know,
Speaker 1: remodeling on their house, or they want to do crown
Speaker 1: molding or base board, and they want to just do
Speaker 1: it the very best that it can be done, then
Speaker 1: this is the gift for them. This little coping saw
Speaker 1: that's in the gift guide is by Jorgensen. It's a
Speaker 1: pro coping saw. And yeah, it's nineteen dollars. Okay, so
Speaker 1: it's not an expensive gift. It is, though, so important.
Speaker 1: So here's the deal. Here's a little story I'll tell
Speaker 1: you about the coping saw. If I ever walk on
Speaker 1: to a job site when the finished carpenters are there present,
Speaker 1: doing what they do, and I'm there for some other reason,
Speaker 1: design reason, whatever the case may be, and if I
Speaker 1: see a finished a carpenter walking around and hanging off
Speaker 1: their little tool bag, I actually see or in one
Speaker 1: of their pouches, I see a coping saw. I will
Speaker 1: literally find the general, I'll find the builder, or I'll
Speaker 1: approach them directly if I'm not interrupting their work and
Speaker 1: I'll get a card. I'll get a card or contact
Speaker 1: information about that finished carpentry if there's somebody in our
Speaker 1: area that we could use. There is nothing that sells
Speaker 1: your finished carpentry skills more to me as a pro
Speaker 1: when I walk onto a job site than to see
Speaker 1: a trim carpenter with a coping saw in their bags.
Speaker 1: And I'll tell you why, Because what you think is
Speaker 1: the normal, or i should say, the best way or
Speaker 1: the proper way to do molding to run baseboard or
Speaker 1: crown molding into the corner of a room, what you
Speaker 1: probably think is the best way to do that is
Speaker 1: with a miter cut, like a miter saw, where you
Speaker 1: cut the molding back at forty five degree angles and
Speaker 1: you join another molding to it at a forty five
Speaker 1: degree angle, and in a perfect universe, it makes a perfect,
Speaker 1: beautiful seam. And that happens. And there's nothing wrong with
Speaker 1: a well executed miter cut. But the best cut, the best,
Speaker 1: the cut that will never open up, that will never
Speaker 1: miss a ligne, the cut that will be there thirty
Speaker 1: forty one hundred years from now, is not a miter
Speaker 1: cut on a piece of inside corner molding, but a
Speaker 1: coped cut, and that is where one board runs all
Speaker 1: the way through into the corner. Just square cut all
Speaker 1: the way into the corner. Forget about even putting a
Speaker 1: cut on that board. But the other board that joins it,
Speaker 1: you've back cut it so that the profile whatever the
Speaker 1: shape of the molding is on the face. And then
Speaker 1: you take your coping saw and you spend just a
Speaker 1: few seconds, that's all. It takes just a few seconds
Speaker 1: coping off the detail of that face. And when you
Speaker 1: push that one into the other board, the seam is perfection.
Speaker 1: The seam will never open because it's not a miter scene.
Speaker 1: And here is the best part of all. If for
Speaker 1: any reason, that corner is not perfect ninety degrees, which
Speaker 1: you know what most corners are not. If it's a
Speaker 1: little bit tight or a little bit wide. On a
Speaker 1: miter cut, it's gonna leave a gap, it's not gonna
Speaker 1: fit properly. You're gonna have to recut it or just
Speaker 1: kind of accept it and caulk it. But a coped cut,
Speaker 1: that cope cut can bend several degrees in either direction
Speaker 1: and still have a perfect join in the corner. It's
Speaker 1: true for crown molding. It's true for base board. When
Speaker 1: I see you holding a coping saw in your hand,
Speaker 1: I will be so proud of you. And so that
Speaker 1: is why I say this little saw, this little twenty
Speaker 1: dollars tool that is not very familiar to the average
Speaker 1: di wire. This is the first step in a journey
Speaker 1: of one thousand miles for those of you who want
Speaker 1: to introduce quality. And it's not that hard to learn.
Speaker 1: It's not that hard to learn how to do this.
Speaker 1: But it's brilliant and it's wonderful and it's sweet. And
Speaker 1: now that I have spun it for you, now that
Speaker 1: I've sizzled it for you, you can take this story
Speaker 1: and you can relay it to the individual who you're
Speaker 1: giving this gift to. And believe me, it's going to
Speaker 1: make a huge difference for twenty bucks. That's why that's
Speaker 1: why you come to me for the gift guide. These
Speaker 1: are the pearls. All right, we're going to return to
Speaker 1: the gift guide, but first, when we come back from
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