Jeff Liebermann wrote:

Well, you could also make your own wrenches.
The technique would be similar to making your
own knife. Buy a bar of heat treatable steel
that's the correct thickness:
http://www.onlinemetals.com Trim to shape
with either a band saw or angle grinder.
Refine the shape with an angle grinder, belt
sander or hand file. Make a fancy wooden
handle in the same manner as a custom knife.
Harden and anneal the wrench. Clean up the
slag, oil the wooden handle, make YouTube
video, and you're done.

With programming, one can do a tool which for
the specific purpose is superior to anything
else in the world, be it commercial or free of
charge. (Programming is of course a tool to do
just that, but nevertheless.)

But with mechanical tools, I don't think
I could ever make a tool that is superior to
one which I can get cheaply from Crooks"R"Us.
And if it would be, the difference wouldn't be
one I would notice or one that would motivate
all the time spent on it.

So the only reason to do it would be so I can
be heckled by people dropping smart-ass comments
on YouTube, people who most likely themselves
never made a single tool!

To be able to do your own knives, axes etc.
would sure be cool tho, so no disrespect for
the skill itself...

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