I'm slowly collecting woodworking tools, mostly for projects around the house. My house is almost 100 years old, so I have no shortage of things to do.
I have just started getting some bigger stuff. So far, I have bought a nice Dewalt miter saw, and a decent Craftsman router/table, both brand new. A few months back, I garbage picked a Ridgid thickness planer that works perfectly. All I had to do was flip the blades around, and I had a $350 planer.
Just today, I picked up a drill press. I didn't want to spend what a nice one costs brand new, and the little presses sold locally didn't seem to be very accurate, durable, or repairable. After weeks of searching pawn shops and Craigslist, I found one only about 30 miles away. I negotiated it to $125, including the cart, which seems like a fair price:
I think I have everything I need now to make pickguards, and to make a lap steel. Should be fun and easy. I was going to start tomorrow, but I get to play plumber and figure out why my sewer line backs up every time the washing machine drains.
I plan on recreating my house's door trim on a couple of modern doors that were installed before we bought the place. I plan on replacing my kitchen cabinet doors, and building some night stands. A longer term plan is to finish off my bedroom closet, which is a former porch (10'x12') that still has an outdoor light and the original exterior wood siding. Classy.
By the way, does anyone have experience with
clamps like these for getting nice cuts with circular saws? I was thinking that for $40, I could avoid having to get a table saw for a while.
Mike