I have a Matrix because at the time I was looking, it was the only way to get a corded impact driver at a reasonable price. Then of course I got a cordless and never use the Matrix, but that swiss army knife feel is pretty cool.
I believe that "Hart" at Wal Mart is also a TTI brand, roughly Ryobi quality but of course so many fewer offerings. I think Wally World got pissed that Stanley B&D wouldn't do a DeWalt line for them and made a better deal with TTI.
Cordless-wise, I have B&D, Porter Cable, and Bostitch (drill and impact driver that they used to sell at Wal-Mart) because they are all electrically compatible SB&D products, requiring only a few kisses from a Dremel to interoperate like a single system. Also made an adapter for my ancient Ridgid X2 anchor, I mean DRILL; it was a gift and just sits on the shelf with a countersink in it, but it still works.
Got a little bit of everything for the woodshop, Wen jointer, Shopsmith planer, band saw, scroll saw, and Mark V, Sawstop Contractor saw, Harbor Freight Dust Collector.
(copied over from the post I tried to make on lemmy.world/c/aww because I think I put it up right when they got hacked and some posts didn't federate.)
His mama was under a year old, rescued while pregnant from the worst kind of backyard breeder, and had weird scars on her back. Nevertheless, she was a lovebug who got the zoomies when we came to the foster, and she kissed her little man goodbye. We understand she's a fat and happy foster-fail now, who takes it upon herself to cuddle with any puppies that pass through the foster home.
This "little" boy is the most empathetic of the five dogs we've owned over the years, and he has never done anything "meaner" than firmly wriggling away when he didn't want to come in from barking or get the mud washed off his feet. He does crazy human shit like if his zoomies lead him to bump into somebody or step on a toe, he'll bring whatever toy was at the center of the play, drop it in the lap of the affected human, then immediately lie down next to them and get calm. He wasn't taught this, but he has an instinct for what humans and dogs need from him and just wants everyone to be as happy as he is.
Houston has been instrumental in helping our other rescue, a blue heeler mix, make the final steps from a scared former-stray to a dog that remembers what play is, is confident of his place in the family, and knows how to fully trust another dog.
I mean, Kenobi Space Jesus has a pretty direct antecedent in Mormon art. They took the Medieval and Renaissance European tradition of making literally everybody white and brought it deep into the twentieth and even twenty-first centuries.
Not at hand, but they are 1/2” plywood with simple routed grooves on hardwood runners. Two of the three have little 3d printed, scalloped pen “trays”. The third is deep enough for most brands of 50-60 mL ink bottles.
The back is just hardboard set into a rabbet, so this thing looks neat against a wall. It’s also heavier than it looks, lol, and with plenty of, umm, “character”.
Tangentially, the cover sounds decent, but in the end it's kinda bad because they didn't seem to understand that Billy Joel was going roughly chronologically and included a lot of clever turns of phrase to break up the monotony. The new one was giving me whiplash.
