Bear and are are building a vinyl model of a tyrranosaurus. Last night he used a dremel tool.
He and I were both so proud. Maybe not as much as when he rode a uni, but a big moment, none the less…He’ll be taling about it at school since he’s the big man now. 
My first powertool use involved a electric drill, and also probably a cake mixer…
Any other fond memories?
I have my scars! 
A soldering iron is a power tool, I guess…I like showing off the scar I have from burning myself with solder when I was ten…we used to do some electronics experimenting when we were kids (still do but now know the dangers)
hehe post the tyranisourus!
I can’t remember my first experience with powertools. But I put a 1/8" drill bit through the fleshy part of my hand between my thumb and forfinger. I think I was 11 when that happend. I remember getting the bolldy thing out hurt like a bitch but then it didn’t hurt at all. I cried like crazy though cause at the time my biggest fear was stitches. I still have the drill bit and a nice scar aswell.
My first powertool experience was with a hot knife, where i proceeded to cut a hole in what i seem to remmember as a brand new maxi sail for one of the practice match races for the americas cup, one of the ones my father had worked so hard to make. needless to say i can also remmmeber getting in heaps and heaps of trouble for it.
From then on i stuck to hot knifing rope offcuts and bits of my shoe/wood/the ground.
Sounds quite familiar, except mine was just above the fingernail. It was infected for many weeks, I guess until it rejected all the bits of stuff that was inserted into the finger. Now my nail grows with a ridge out of that location.
Screwdriver. Light socket. You can guess the outcome.
notices pun on ‘power tools’
chuckles
Can’t remember my first time but i could deffinitely gas weld and use a chainsaw by age 12, and yes I have scars from both to prove it! My worst has to be the time i got a running power drill with a broken bit in the back of my wrist, 6 odd years later you can still easily see the scar.
I started out on a table saw (not recommended).
My first powertool was a riveter. I don’t know how old I was but it was no older than four years old. I remember being held by my dad while I tried to use the thing. My dad used to build scale models for the museum of science and technology and this was for a rocket ship they wanted him to build. I believe the rocket ship is still on display (you could actualy go into it too and press buttons) but the last I saw it I would probably 12 or 13.
Funny though that a dremel was the first power tool he used because it was the first power tool I owned. I was given a dremel when I was 11 or 12 cause my dad found them on sale somewhere. I still have it and its a great tool.
I enjoy defacing cool patterns into coins with dremel tools.
My first power tool was probably a cordless drill, then a jig saw.
This past summer, my wife and I did some major renovations in our house. We removed a wall between the kitchen and the dining room, added some windows, removed the old built in kitchen cabinets to make room for a new kitchen.
During the demolition stage, I was cutting out the old kitchen cabinets with a sawzall. Wanting to get my wife involved with this part of the demolition and knowing that it would make great video, I got the Sawzall started cutting through the kitchen counter. I had my wife put on work gloves and goggles then explained to her how to use the saw. Before I let her start cutting, I started the video camera. The expression on her face is priceless when the noise, vibration and sawdust starts to fly.
I used an impact gun when I was 5 years old.
Used to hang out in my dads yard (He owned a towing company) and take apart the scrap cars all day.
hmm
i think the first powertool I used was a drill, didn’t hurt myself, so i took it upon myself to play w/ the scrollsaw while my parents were gone, and it somehow smacked me in the face really hard, don’t remember the specifics, but i remember something hitting me and running in the house crying… this was when I was about 4
tablesaws would be insane to use first
this is funny in context. Did you see a light flash before your eyes?
I don’t remember all the details since I was 5 at the time, but the next thing I remember was being thrown onto my butt about 5 feet away from the wall and feeling a little dazed.
My mom tells me this wasn’t my first encounter with electricity… apparently I stuck a key in an outlet at 3 and my finger in a light-bulb socket at 4. All that energy must’ve went straight to my head 'cause I ended up studying electronics through HS and college.
it’s not from my first use of it, but the nail gun picture probably does need to make an appearance in this thread somewhere…
How did you manage that? Doesn’t really look that bad though. Thank goodness it didn’t go through your palm at that angle…
