A while ago, I had a cry on here about how incredibly piss-poor the performance was, of the expensive Black and Decker jigsaw that I bought to replace my cheap as chips B&D that I had had for years. The new one couldn't be made to cut a straight line in anything tougher than cardboard, if your life depended on it. In the couple of years that I have had it, it has caused me to bodge more jobs than I have in the rest of my entire (quite long so far) life.
A few months back, my daughter bought her husband a Bosch jigsaw, and I have hated him for owning it ever since ! On the couple of occasions that I've had cause to use it, I have bleated loudly about how rubbish my B&D is in comparison.
Well, today, it was apparently father's day. I had completely forgotten this, so imagine my delight, when in came number one daughter, with a shiny new Bosch jigsaw in her hand just for little old me ! What a result. I even had cause to use it on today's job, and what a pleasure it is to handle. It cut through the wood in a dead straight line - and I haven't even tried out the laser guide on it yet - and was totally effortless to control. Deep joy, as Stanley Unwin used to say. I know it's sad getting worked up about a power tool, but I do so unashamedly. Bosch tools it is for me, from now on :-)
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