How Matt from ToolsToday clears shop sawdust and inflates a crab with BLOWZER

A tool store that films its own shop

ToolsToday is an online store for woodworkers, selling router bits, saw blades and shop gear at toolstoday.com. It also keeps a working shop full of machines, and it films there: short, quick videos of the team using what's on the shelves. In this one, Matt from ToolsToday, in a #TeamTOOLSTODAY shirt, gives 58 seconds to a tool he says surprised the whole crew.

"This is one of those tools that I definitely didn't think we'd use this much," he says over the opening shot. It is a fair warning for what follows. ToolsToday is also a BLOWZER retailer, and the video ends by saying so.

Sawdust first

The Short opens on a wooden workbench in the showroom, under a display wall with an Amana Tool sign. Matt points the X6 at a pile of sawdust and the whole heap lifts off the top in a brown cloud. A close shot follows of the X6 standing upright on the same bench.

"It's basically a cordless electric air duster and we've been finding uses for it all over the shop," he says. Then the uses come in quick cuts. He blows the dust off a camera rig on a tripod, the kind of gear a shop that films every week has to keep clean. He clears a router plate and the top of a SawStop table saw, chips flying off the edge onto the floor.

A nozzle for the crab

Next he unzips the carrying case on the saw top and shows the spare nozzles. "This one that we're installing here is for inflatables," he says, twisting the inflation nozzle onto the X6 in close-up.

What comes next is the scene people remember. A deflated red crab pool float lies across the saw table. Matt pushes the nozzle into the valve and the crab fills, claws and eyes and all, until he lifts it up whole, grinning under a ToolsToday cap. His deadpan line: "because apparently we needed that too."

It is a joke, but a useful one. A shop is full of things that need a little air besides dust, and the same tool that clears the saw top fills the float without a pump.

Grab it and go

Then he gets to the real reason. Walking across the concrete floor, the X6 held low at his side, he blows loose sawdust away as he goes, then clears shavings off a table saw top near the blade. "There's no air hose, no compressor, just grab it and use it," he says.

That is the point for anyone with a woodshop. A compressor lives in a corner with a hose to drag out. A cordless duster sits on the bench, so the quick cleanup between cuts actually happens. The X6 runs three modes, 40K, 80K and 130K RPM, and charges over USB-C.

The video closes on the open case beside the inflated crab. "We're now actually selling these on our website," Matt says, and points viewers to toolstoday.com, where the X6 is listed as item TF-BZX6.

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