Desk Tools

I like the idea of having tool kits for everything.

A tool kit for your car, a tool kit for your bike, a tool kit for your home, you get the idea.

Below are the tools that live on my desk, my “desk took kit” of sorts. I keep most of them in a glass mason jar on the left side of my desk, next to my lamp. I would say each item falls into one of three categories:

1. Writing

• Fountain pen
  • Kaweco Sport for when I’m feeling fancy. Specifically, signing checks with this pen just hits different. I hope to one day pick up the brass version.
• Ball point pen
  • Parker Jotter for everything else, it’s a good pen, I love the click on this one.
• Mechanical pencil
  • Pentel Graphgear 1000, I’ve had this particular one ever since I took a drafting class in college.
• Wood pencil
  • Sometimes, you gotta go old school.
• Eraser
  • We all make mistakes…
• Sharpie
  • Mostly for labeling stuff.

2. Measuring & Calculation

• Calculator
  • I find it much easier to just pull this thing out rather than pulling out my phone and digging through my app library just to find the calculator.
• Rulers
  • I like having two of these, one steel ruler for cutting along side with a knife and one wooden ruler for everything else.
• Calipers
  • I like these plastic calipers for my desk, I don’t have a need to measure tight tolerances here and it’s nice not having to worry about scratching the thing I’m measuring.

3. Cutting & Opening

• Small phillips and flathead screwdrivers
  • Usually for opening laptops or other small electronics. I like these from Klein, color coded and the tops spin freely.
• Watch case back opener
  • Opening watch case backs and prying other various things open.
• Folding knife
  • Opinel #7, I believe this is the smallest knife they make with the locking collar.
• Scissors
  • Fiskars orange scissors, great pair of scissors.

Thanks for reading.