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Armor For Your Marking Tools

Monday, September 21st, 2009

CH Hanson sells two low-cost accessories to protect and enhance your marking tools: Pencil Armor and Crayon Armor. Although I find it hard to justify spending a few bucks to protect a ten-cent pencil, I’ve held the pencil armor and it does look pretty cool. Armor for crayons, on the other hand, might make more sense since they’re a bit more expensive and fragile.

CH Hanson designed the aluminum Pencil Armor to work with rectangular carpenter’s pencils. The armor only exposes as much of the pencil as you need. You advance the pencil by sticking your thumb into the slot and pressing forward. The Armor also has a clip so you can keep the pencil in you shirt pocket.

The plastic Crayon Armor securely holds one of CH Hanson’s crayons and protects it from breaking since it only exposes enough crayon for marking. There’s a thumb slot for exposing more crayon and a lanyard strap.

The Crayon Armor will cost you about $4 and the Pencil Armor will run you $2 before shipping. Before paying double the product’s worth in shipping charges, check out your local Home Depot; mine carries the Pencil Armor, so maybe yours does too.

C.H. Hanson [Corporate Site]
Street Pricing [Google Products]
Crayon Armor Via Amazon [What’s This?]
Pencil Armor Via Amazon [What’s This?]

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CH Hanson 24″ Precision Ball Level

Monday, July 6th, 2009

If you’ve seen any old WWII movies that feature planes at all, one of the first instruments they zoom in on is the artificial horizon indicator. It’s the big ball in the middle of the cockpit that shows how the aircraft is positioned relative to the ground. The CH Hanson 50024 Precision Ball Level has the same kind of thing, and it’s sweet.

Someone should have thought of this years ago. The aviation-style ball, which replaces a bubble vial, is both accurate and simple to read. Because the level is ball-style it can measure in two directions at once, just like the one in a plane. Plus, it measures angles in degrees or pitches.

We love the idea and how large the ball-style readout is. If it can make it through a few drops around the job site without the ball shattering, it looks like an extremely handy rig to have. We wonder how long it will take for other manufacturers to try to follow suit. Pricing starts at around $40 for a 24″ model.

Note* Thanks to reader Kyle for the heads up.

50024 Precision Ball Level [CH Hanson]
Street Pricing [Google Products]
Via Amazon [What’s This?]

Posted in CH Hanson, Hand Tools, Measuring | 14 Comments »

C.H. Hanson Slide Square

Monday, October 6th, 2008

C.H. Hanson calls their Slide Square the next generation of layout tools — it’s a square, it’s a caliper, it’s a protractor, and it fits in your pocket.  It also features holes for marking bolt locations in 2×4 and 2×6 sill plates.  Multi-tasking is a beautiful thing.

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Hands-On: C.H. Hanson’s Superpencil

Friday, November 16th, 2007
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The carpenter’s pencil hasn’t seen much innovation in the last 300 years, primarily because it works pretty darn well. But C.H. Hanson claims to have found room for improvement, resulting in their Superpencil — which they say lasts seven times longer than the standard shop pencil. We recently got our hands on a Superpencil in the Toolmonger test shop and gave it a go. Read on past the jump for our experiences and lots of pictures.

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Preview: The Angle Snap

Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
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C. H. Hanson, manufacturer of the Chalk Hog, now offers something called the Angle Snap — a chalk line jig designed to simplify complex layout on sheet goods like plywood, sheet rock, or OSB. With built in positive stops for fast placement on edges and corners, it works with any standard chalk line to mark angles simply and accurately.

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Preveiw: The Full-Snouted Chalk Hog

Friday, July 27th, 2007
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This year we’ve seen many tool manufactures making great strides in chalk and chalk lines.  Pros will tell you this has been a long time coming.  We ourselves have seen our fair share of blue-stained toolboxes from snap lines that couldn’t hold their powder.  C.H. Hanson claims the way of the future is more chalk and a beefier housing.  Meet the Chalk Hog.

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Hot or Not: The Speed Rocker Drywall Knife

Monday, April 16th, 2007
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The Speed Rocker drywall knife adds a “tape hook” on the thumb rest so you can hold a measuring tape and make a score mark at the same time, and some drywall guys love the fact that there’s a fold-out drywall saw hidden in the handle.  But at $20, it’s a bit expensive for some people’s taste.

It’s solidly built — nice and heavy-feeling in your hand — and one side of the handle is also a drywall rasp for truing up edges, though we wonder if you’d still want to grab it after filing down drywall with the handle.

We’ve seen this knife a couple of times in the toolbelts of professional drywall workers, but we’re still a little held up on the price — and its specific combination of features.  What do you think?  Let us know in comments.

Speed Rocker [CH Hanson]
Street Pricing [Froogle]
Via Amazon [What's This?]

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