Magnetic Fish Tape

Surfing around some tool blog sites today and I come across this. I wonder how well it would work behind plaster and lathe?



"To use the Magnafish system, you drop the rare-earth magnet leader through a 7/8″ hole, then capture it with a paddle magnet. Move the paddle magnet toward the opening, then extract the leader and attach your cable or wire."

On a side note, I picked up a good tip from the comments section of Toolmongers post on this item. One guy uses a rare earth magnet to find those "lost" electrical junction boxes in the wall.

More information can be found here

Cutting Corners

The page that gets the most hits on my small blog has always been my "Make your own Rosettes". Toolmonger picked up the images out of my flickr account this week and made a post about it.

While surfing Toolmonger I saw a neat little tool to be able to round corners on wood without having to bust out the router all the time or sand, sand, sand. It's called a Cornering tool set.

This would work great for moulding and casing with it's sharp corners that do not take paint well, or any corner you need to round out to make it more comfortable to the touch. Check it out.