{"id":577,"date":"2009-12-05T17:43:24","date_gmt":"2009-12-05T22:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wilsonbuilt.com\/wb_blog\/?p=577"},"modified":"2009-12-05T17:44:34","modified_gmt":"2009-12-05T22:44:34","slug":"tools-the-basics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wilsonbuilt.com\/wb_blog\/2009\/tools-the-basics\/","title":{"rendered":"Tools &#8211; the Basics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I started to build my tool collection when I first returned to NYC in 1998 after a few years on the road with circuses. I had learned to build while working with circuses so my first purchases were of the tools that I had found the most useful while on the road. This is what for me is the basic kit. I bring these tools everywhere &#8211; to any jobsite no matter what I <em>think<\/em> I&#8217;ll be doing. With these you can improvise &amp; make nearly anything:<\/p>\n<p>Hammer<br \/>\nCordless drill (DeWalt 12v)<br \/>\nBosch Jigsaw<br \/>\nCombination Square<br \/>\nTape Measure<br \/>\nUtility Knife<br \/>\nDrill Bit set<br \/>\nPhillips driver with countersink combination<br \/>\nPliers w\/wire cutter<br \/>\n10-in-one screwdriver set<\/p>\n<p>Minus the Bosch, this list is what I like carpenters to bring to my job sites. Anything less and they will be using tools you may need (sharing a cordless drill or tape measure is insane), and anything else is a bonus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started to build my tool collection when I first returned to NYC in 1998 after a few years on the road with circuses. I had learned to build while working with circuses so my first purchases were of the tools that I had found the most useful while on the road. This is what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20],"tags":[9],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7yDEm-9j","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wilsonbuilt.com\/wb_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wilsonbuilt.com\/wb_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wilsonbuilt.com\/wb_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wilsonbuilt.com\/wb_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wilsonbuilt.com\/wb_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.wilsonbuilt.com\/wb_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":581,"href":"https:\/\/www.wilsonbuilt.com\/wb_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions\/581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wilsonbuilt.com\/wb_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wilsonbuilt.com\/wb_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wilsonbuilt.com\/wb_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}