The Cats Paw.
This is a standard cats paw. About 12 ” with two claws to allow you to hammer below nails to pry them up, so you can remove nails and separate the studs and stuff that you are demoing. This is an Orphan Tool. Really doesn’t do anything else.
This is a great tool when you are doing a partial wall demo for loosening bottom and top plates as well as corner and wall studs. But if you are doing a lot of demo, this is a great addition to your tool collection.
Japanese Cat’s Paw
Lighter, a little more elegant but the same tool.
Dood!
The cat’s paw is the most needed tool when you realized that you framed your door too low, or when you decide that that knee wall is too long and crooked (by the way).
It really came in handy when we forgot to check the basement when we were “perfectly” lining up all of our wet walls, and found that we had built one right over a double joist in the basement. Had to move it 4″ south in order to get the cold air return in. Enter the PAW.
Mark
One of my most versatile and valuable tools. I like the kind made by Dasco because the base on the flat end is wider and less likely to mar the surface you are prying against…
It looks like this:
http://images.lowes.com/product/018371/018371501675.jpg
Kurtis,
Nice catch. Thanks for stopping by.
wow, this is the first time i hear of such thing, i think i have seen them before but i did not know their name.