medical stool prices on ebay just went up 100%

Go on for twenty minutes about an old stool that none of us would be able to find anyway......

Hey Adam, you may have answered this somewhere before but, do you have or have you had any tools that you wish you'd never acquired? Whether they were too expensive, ruined too many projects or had some other critical flaw that made their continued existence in your shop untenable.

So what you're saying is that this stool is far from the only chair in your shop, you might even say the stool is merely a sample of your collection.

I bet there’s a blind guy somewhere in the world super confused and disgusted listening to this.

A lot of questions revolve around your favorite X. However, my question is: Are there any items in your shop that you resent having to have/use or just begrudgingly keep around?

i mean judging from the color of the leather, or whatever the stool was wrapped in, i can already tell it is an older medical stool because they switched to greys and light blue colors probably during my lifetime, circa 1990s. when i was younger i remember seeing these but now i hardly see any, and to be honest things made before probably the 60s-70s were just plain made better. IMO it is because the phrase "planned obsolescence" didn't gain popularity until this time and although it was meant to inform buyers, it ended up creating more industry exploiters rather than honest builders. so much for "supply and demand."

You know I hear many people suffer from uncomfortable rigid unmovable stools

They don't make things like they used to.

I could have sworn he was on that couch until the camera panned down and proved me wrong.

Greatly appreciate a sampling of your stool, titular host!

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I've had a medical stool for about as long. Used it while I was a professional Harley mechanic and now it lives in my garage here at home. Never failed me either, best tool I ever bought

We have a chair like that first one in our machine shop!! It's basically the exact same except it doesn't have caster wheels just rubber feet. Love these videos!!

Is there somewhere I could get a stool sample?

Mr. Savage, of all the projects you have been a part of, all the things you have designed and built, over your entire career. What is this the single most thing you are proud of? Except of course, being a father. Of course nothing can be greater than being a part of bring a life into this world.

Love this series, and I greatly enjoyed Every Tool's a Hammer -- in particular the section about list-making. I've long made my own "brain dumps," and I think it'd be fascinating to see how Adam organizes and arranges his own -- is it in an app, a notebook, steno pad, what's it look like, what sections does he use, etc. Maybe a future Ask Adam?

Sounds like a perfect one day build...make a replica!

future one day build - the PERFECT stool

I hooked up my barber with some rollerblade caster wheels, because his original ones would clog up with hair really quick and broke all the time. The rollerblade casters work like magic.