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You Suck! I am Sooo jealous!

Counting tax, you're just about there. Give some thought to a couple hand planes for some areas of your work. I'd add the Veritas apron pocket plane and their 4-1/2 to that, maybe. I'm not a neander, but I've found that having a good plane around sometimes saves on the electric bill and the nerves both when I don't have to get fancy with tool sets up. Not too long ago, another member sent me onoe of E. C. Emmerich's little block planes and that's a great tool, as well.

If you ever decide to go with square tenons, you might want to think about some good chisels to get rid of those round corners left by the Leigh M&T jig (and that thing is a wonder: I saw it a year or so ago and had to marvel at how easy it was to use and how well it did).

Or how about a lot of yellow birch (much cheaper than maple) to build yourself a workbench, to which you could then add a couple really good vises.

Charlie Self

"Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things." Sir Winston Churchill

Good, but why not a 16 or 18"?

Good

Good idea, but if you needed it, you'd probably have one now.

Overpriced, neat looking, small production shop tool, not really meant for hobbist use. (Leigh likes all the sales though.) Wait for a few more years and they'll start turning up on ebay and othe want ads.

Nice to have, but not essiential. Also in the price range that you can stash away small amounts for a short time and pick it up later.

Nice tool. a little pricey for the home shop unless you plan on using it a lot. The lower priced 734 is a solid machine too.

Good idea. You can either buy 2 WWII, one to use and one to send to Forrest to be resharpened -or- buy lower priced but about equal blades to fill in while sharpening the WWII.

The acquisition phase is a lot of fun, but often you end up with good tools that you use

Good luck - have fun!

Myx

Me too. Little armchair figuring and after seven years of shopdom, my total comes to about $1500 in all. Nowhere close to $4,000, and he's getting that in one big chunk! Yeesh.

I would put the money aside until you actually need one of those tools and then buy it.

IAMF- Where did that $4k come from? Found money?

Myx

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or better yet. put it away till you find real good deals on tools. more bang for the buck!!!! with 4 grand you can outfit a small shop real nice if you wait for the deals to come. and they will come!! nice to have the cash when they do. skeez

Set aside some of that money for wood finds, if you can.

Amen.

Hell, Jo4n, for that price you can invite him to the islands for a visit and have some change left for wood.

Yes, you do suck.

How about a 'Fridge for your brew?

I'm telling Wife how much you suck, she looks at me and reminds me how much I spent on tools (not to mention materials) in the last year or so.

You still suk, just not as bad as I thought. ;]

She may be setting you up, ten years from now when you need something she may look at you and say 'you should have thought of that when I gave you the $4,000'.

Before accepting the money you may want to get a 'statute of limitations' on how long it can be held over your head.

LOL!

Are you kidding? I've never been married but even I know that there's no expiry date on that statute of limitations.

why no jointer?

I'm married to a woman who has _never_ held anything over my head in

Then again, I've never lied about the cost of a tool, and she dosen't hide new shoes in the car. We've always followed the credo that if you can't pass the red face test, you shouldn't be doing in the first place.

Sorry, guys.

Barry

She handles the finances and likes to stash away as much as possible. Frequently uses some of this to play around with day trading and the market has been pretty good this year. Least that's her story ;). \mj

you get 10" and

using it a lot. The

tools that you use

of what you want.

Ah...good idea. I'm trying to get those things that I most often say "man I wish I had a ". Been using the router table for a jointer and it does pretty good, but that is something I might use more than a bandsaw. All I can think of using the bandsaw for is resawing which I've done on the TS, but only once in a while. \mj

I'm pretty happy with my bench and it has a good vice and holes for dogs. Hadn't thought of the plane, and I haven't used one in years, but there have times I wished I had one. Could also use some better chisels. I'm really looking forward the the FMT Jig. I've been doing mine with the TS, a small benchtop drill press, and some so-so chisels. Takes some time and, with my lack of skill, lot's of "scrap" wood. Do like the square tenons though.

Good ideas...thanks.