OK, here it is.  I learned a lot working on a major addition in 1973 with a 73
year old carpenter named Joe Shingle.  Joe had all manner of cool tools and he
ended up giving me a couple - including the Stanley 95 edge squaring plane that
I still use.

He used one of these for driving screws for a lot of things and I always watched
out of the corner of my eye at how easy he made it look.  I picked one up at a
flea market.

We were hanging doors and I wanted to be just like Joe, so I pulled out my big
honking screwdriver, and immediately put a huge gouge in an oak door frame that
took forever to fix.  He said “oh, you bought the one with the spring in it”.
It just never dawned on me that he was always using 2 hands to drive the screws.

Ed Minch





On May 17, 2014, at 10:14 AM, Malcolm Thomas  wrote:

> why do i want the one without the return spring ?
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Mal