About WristWriter®

The "Long Story"

Recently, Jack Cribbs of Cribbs Woodworking has decided to market a device that he came up with to solve a few simple problems that he was having in his small New England woodworking shop. It started on a winter morning last year when Jack went down to his work shop to start on a new entertainment center that he had just designed for one of his customers. The prior day he had prepared his stack of raw lumber to be cut, joined and planed and he had left the drawings and the cut list down in the shop. It was now 7 am. and Jack was looking forward to a productive day of work and that was when it happenened.

"Somebody" had placed the measurements where they weren’t obvious to find, and the search was on. Jack looked everywhere and ten minutes later he finally found the measurements on the underside of a piece of cherry that he had inadvertently knocked on the floor. A little agitated, he placed the list on top of his table saw, then he realized his tape measure was nowhere in sight.   You guessed it, another ten minutes later and he finally secured one of his five invisible tape measures. Now at this point in time the steam was just starting to rise and Jack was in no mood to keep this unproductive activity going but as fate would have it, of the 20 pencils known to be in his shop, not one was in sight. He looked under benches and in drawers, on shelves and even in the trash barrel, finally one materialized at the bottom of his nail apron.

The steam was now spewing from both ears, and Jack eyes were at the bulging point and the desire to be productive was being replaced by something evil and destructive. At the last moment, just before melt down, a light went on in Jacks' head as he realized that there must be a better way. He looked at his collection of notes, tape measure and pencil and he started to think that there must be something at the lumber yard or the office store that could help so he went to the nearest store and started his search but there was nothing that could cure his dilemma, at least nothing in complete form. Jack’s next plan was to make something for himself that would solve his particular problem. He went to the Pharmacy and purchased a wrist support, (the kind with a metal brace on the inside) on the way out of the store he noticed a bin of throw away cameras. Cameras, that sparked a second idea.

When he reached his shop he cut a slot in the wrist brace for the clip on the tape measure and put the apparatus on, it was comfortable and surprisingly it was not in the way. He then designed a scrolling device that used some cash register paper as his note pad. As luck would have it there was a 2” velcro type band that stretched over the wrist so Jack applied a patch of hook material to his scrolling pad of paper and then applied it to the top of his wrist and that was the first WristWriter®.    

Several days later Jack was starting a new project and already had a good idea as to how long it would take to complete the job. He estimated cutting time would be somewhere around 16 hrs. He went to work but this time he was using his new device and 4 hours later he was done. Now I realize that this sounds like a fairy tale but it’s true, when you add up the time spent reaching into your pouch to grab your tape, measure your board, find your pencil, locate your measurements, make your mark and put all that stuff back it adds up. Then think about all the times the phone rings or somebody talks to you and you loose your place. Then think about all the times you measured something and put your tape away only to write the number down wrong, and then not only will you loose time but you just cut your piece the wrong length. The larger the job the greater the time savings.    

Now the product has evolved into a simple comfortable device, it includes a velcro backed elastic wrist band, a scrolling writing pad with plenty of paper to complete multiple jobs with, a nesting place for a mechanical pencil and a specially sized pencil.     The product comes with extra, pressure sensitive hook pads for attaching a tape measure or other device such as a PDA or cell phone.    

Since developing the various prototypes, Jack claims to save time and aggravation throughout his entire day by having a running list of things to do as well as shopping lists and phone numbers, names of people that he meets, directions to places and he even uses it on his motorcycle to track mileage and locate the latest pig roast or poker run.

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