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What DIY babe goes without a good set of pliers? This pack from LaurDIY includes (3) sets, each 5" long: round-nose, needle-nose and side-cutter. Our samples had these cool, sort of iridescent purple and aqua-blue handles, but colors may vary. Perfect for making your own jewelry and for collecting stubborn debts, but at least try to reason with them first.

Precision metal saw of the type usually known as a razor saw. It has a 4-1/2" long x 1" deep blade with very fine teeth and reinforcing down the spine. Complete with plastic handle. Excellent for cutting small metal tubes and strips for hobby work.

You know how when you try to replace a watch band yourself and that little spring bar flies out and you can never find it in your retro shag carpeting? We’re here to help. First, get rid of that carpeting. Then get this set of multiple standard 1.5mm spring bars. You’ll get between 7 and 10 of each in a dozen sizes (100 pieces altogether) from 8mm to 19mm, plus a double-ended tool to help you swap them out in the first place.

Our delovely desoldering device is de spring-loaded suction type, approx 8 to 10-3/4" long. Depress de pump, heat de circuit board pad, squeeze de button, and de solder deesappears. Devious little devil.

This is the warranty-violator special, or just a MacGyvering guys toolbox. The black, 8” x 6” x 1-1/2” zipper pouch holds a rechargeable battery power pack with a USB output, which will power the little, quite gusty fan, the 5-LED flashlight, and the reversible torquey screwdriver with tiny Phillips, flathead, hex and square bits, each with a 4mm shank diameter. Battery will also charge cellphones and other devices.

You don’t have to be a prepper to appreciate this Whiz multitool with (20)-plus functions. It’s your best buddy when you’re camping (fish scaler), working (scissors), celebrating (bottle opener), or just getting lost (compass). The Swiss army wishes it had a knife like this! Ours is bigger, at 3-1/2" long x a full 1-1/2" wide, with a nifty red LED light built right into the shell. Also includes a corkscrew, can opener, magnifying glass, large knife, small knife, slotted screwdriver, pliers, Phillips screwdriver, inch ruler, filer, reamer punch, and more.

Our each is a set of (12) assorted, stainless steel, double-ended, wax-carving tools. So you’ll really have (24) tools, such as picks, spatulae, spades, points and a bunch more. Each measures approx 6-1/2” long with knurled handles for a sure grip. In a roll-up canvas storage pouch. We won’t tell if you also use them for carving clay. Made in India.

In translucent polypropylene, these measure 6” long with a bulbous top, 3mL capacity, dropper point and 0.5ml markings. The package calls these “Prospector’s Choice” and suggests using them to “collect fine gold particles with ease.” Feel free, but we like them for labs and crafts--anywhere that dropper dispensing occurs. Our each is a package of (50). Great for labs, crafts and hobbies.

Very popular with elementary school teachers, these hardcover blank books let students create their own storybooks. (Middle-schoolers interviewing and making books for primary grade kids is a popular and civilizing project.) Also great for sketching, journaling or scrapbooking. Pure white blank covers with (14) sheets (28 pages) of 80-lb blank paper inside with a sewn-in binding. You pick the 6” x 8” books or the 8-1/2” x 11” versions.

They call it the "Safety Cutter" and it's going to make your life a whole bunch easier. It's a little 2-3/8" long x 3/16" thick teardrop-shaped paper slicer with a teensy rust- and dullness-proof ceramic blade that magically cuts through paper and plastic. Perfect for clipping newsprint, cutting wrapping paper, and opening deviously sealed packaging, including the heavy stuff if you press a bit. Even CD cases. The crazy part? Won't cut your fingers or anything else. You could run it right over your hand, press down and everything, and nothing. Really. We tried it on some expendable employees. You know what this means? You can take it on airplanes, which further means that when you get to the coast you'll actually be able to open all the packages full of the stuff you sent ahead.

Your diary—that’s for you, but sometimes you want the world to see your message. That’s when you call on this giant. Our chisel-tip marker from Art Skills®, the latest in B.A.M. technology (Big Area Marker, it says so on the package), 6” long and 1-3/32” wide and the tip measures 3/4” tall x 1/4" wide. Designed for writing big words—not like “recalcitrant” and “contumacious”, but big in size for signs and posters. The ink is black, and washable, comes off most clothing and your skin, but might require a couple washings or a good soaking. We trust you can keep the ink on the signs, though.

These're pleasing tweezers, these are. They're clever cross-lock tweezers, 6" long with wood-grain grips and 1/2" long, serrated 90° jaws that grip tightly. The handy cross-locks will lay flat on their backs to hold stuff, like wires, while you solder.

All together now, boys and girls, can you say BARGAIN? A bonanza assortment of (100) 1/8" shank rotary tool attachments: wheels, brushes, stones, sanding wheels, buffing pads, and sundry other stuff. All in a nice wooden box with the latch on upside down-so write "top" on the top. Is that why it's here? That, and the cardboard sleeve that tells us to heed an "importan" warning. Case dimensions are about 8-3/8" x 5-1/2" x 1-3/4".

Just your standard 2-notch utility knife blades in a 10-pack. For all your utility knifing needs.

Diamond files never wear out, hardly, unless you file diamonds with them. This 10-piece set of diamond files has an assortment of wedges, flats, points and triangle files, all 6” long overall and up 5/16” wide. If you can’t find the one you need here, you probably shouldn’t file the thing in the first place.

"Screeeeeek! Screeeeeek! Screeeeeek!" Recognize that? It's the sound of someone sawing a styro-foamal block. It's followed by the sound of a vacuum sucking up hundreds of little foam shards. Free yourself from both with this clever electric hot-knife that slides through those chunks of craft foam like a straight razor through a ripe mango. Perfect for carving foam blocks into shapes - or smaller blocks. Measures 10" long OA with a 4-3/4" long, needle-like cutting wand, heats up to 410°F (so be careful), and makes screeeek-free and shardless cuts. Wall-outlet adapter outputs 6VAC 9W 1500mA and has a 7-foot cord, unit has on/off switch and safety stand.

Just the one, actually, but it’s been sliced in half so the pair is perfectly symmetrical and mighty pretty. Although ammonites have been extinct for 65,000,000 years, we’ve got their approx 1” dia fossils for you. Our each is a book-matched pair of polished ammonites fossils of a single critter halved and polished to a bright symmetrical shininess. The colors vary from light tan to dark brown and we’ll pick because we have impeccable ammonitical color-shade taste. And yes, they’re just screaming to become cuff-links or earrings.

This battery-operated, hand-held hobby drill, carver and engraver spins at 13,000 rpm and runs on (4) “AA” batteries that you add. Includes a 3/32” chuck with an engraving bit, (2) grinding wheels, and a sharpener; an extra 1/16” chuck with (1) drill bit; and a 1/8” chuck for added tools. Handle and battery case are in a floral pattern, and the unenlightened manufacturer has labeled the package “Her Embosser,” so it serves them right that it ended up discounted at your friendly surplus supplier.