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Innova 5610 – WIN YOURS NOW!

A few months back I got my hands on the Innova 5610 and put it through its paces. I’m no OBD2 savant, no garage full of diagnostic pedigree, but the review went clean and the damn thing worked exactly like it was supposed to. No surprises, no fuss, just a tool doing its job in a world where that’s rarer than it ought to be. Somewhere in the aftermath, Innova came calling. Wanted to know if I’d give one away to you people. Naturally I said yes, because that’s the kind of degenerate optimism that gets a man into trouble. …

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The Shape Of Tomorrow

I’m here. Boulder. The mountains are doing that thing they do at dusk where they turn purple for about fifteen minutes and make you forget every bad decision you’ve made in the last six months. It’s a hell of a trick. One minute your shoulders feel like they’ve been beaten with a ball-peen hammer, the next you’re standing there staring at a ridgeline like some wide-eyed tourist who’s never seen dirt rise above sea level. Then the sun disappears, reality comes back, and you remember you can barely lift your arms above your shoulders. Moving a house is hard. Moving …

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Amazon Prime Day

I should’ve done this earlier. I didn’t. The idea arrived late, like most good ones do, somewhere between loading the fourteenth box of tools into a truck headed for Colorado and remembering I still run a website. Amazon Prime Days. Three of them. Starting now. For the uninitiated: yes, I’m moving. Entire operation. Colorado. New mountains, new shop, new neighbors who have no idea what’s about to happen to their noise ordinances. It’s a full-on production and I’m running it at speed, which means the site needs its affiliate links clicked and its deals posted and its gears kept turning …

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Reviews & Features

The Porter-Cable A4 Worm Drive

I found myself at a buddy’s place over the weekend, pulled there by some vague notion of watching a man wrestle with history. He’s deep into restoring a house from the early 1900s, and for the last several weeks he’s been rebuilding solid mahogany doors by hand. That sounded like the kind of madness worth witnessing up close. The doors were something, sure. But the real story was the saw sitting on his workbench like a small, beautiful artifact from a better civilization. Tagged as a Guildtool 4-A, though the cognoscenti know it as the Porter Cable A4 trim saw. …

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A Savage Inventory of the Tools That Actually Matter

I was in the shop this morning, putting shit away where shit goes, and somewhere between the third coffee and a mild argument with a stubborn drawer that wouldn’t close, I started thinking: what are the real MVPs here? Not the obvious stuff. Not wrenches and sockets and the basic artillery that any functioning human being needs to get work done. I mean the things that changed the game. The things you didn’t know you needed until you had them, and now life without them seems barbaric. So I made a list. I thought about it for a few more …

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