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You must have the right tools for the job, or in guy's terms, you gotta find the right job for the tools that you think are really cool. Why do we share this fascination with power tools? Why is 1/4 HP better than 1/8 HP? What is HP? These questions and more we'll hope to address in this chapter. For starters HP is the index used in "Guy" purchases to proclaim just how cool we think a tool is, as opposed to how much power is adequate for the job. The bigger the HP's, the better the wow factor is amongst our fellow Guys. A clear indication of that is when a Guy says, "Hey, I really got a thing for routers, so I got a huge one." But we at least have learned to pool our resources, in an effort to play with a variety of impressive power tools borrowed from the buddy network. It feels just as good to use your friends 15 HP router as it would if it was yours. It also serves as good guy-bonding material for idle talk about busy projects, an honored past time of ours. The proficient use of these tools displayed on the worksite is also an extremely important aspect of the whole Tool experience. Proving to other Guys we know what we're doing with this stuff is important to establish. No Guy likes to be looked down upon from Legos to Yugos. Maybe this should be part of Ego. Then again, this entire book could be dedicated to Ego, but that would be too egotistical.

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