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Great job Chet!! Nothing better then nice clean work where every detail gets the same attention.

Nice work as always Chet!!

Most of mine are metal from Oneida with the exception of my manifold which is plywood with hardboard shop made gates.

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That's what I was thinking as well.

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I am too, I love that ply!! Great job Kev!

Nice! They are really nice to have around I wish I could justify an airless but for the amount of times I use it I couldn't.

Absolutely Kev but I see a whole lot of people spending a lot whole lot of time thinking their shops need to be perfect and they need to have every tool known to man before they can make something. Now if collecting tools and designing and laying out shops is your end game then have it. I love my shop and I love my tools but above all I love what I make in it and the feedback I get when I give something away and for me that should drive the decisions especially if funds are limited.

I'm going to go even further outside the lines... Decide what your first project is going to be and then using the list above purchase the tools you need to make that project. Then decide on your next project and pick up the addl tools needed for that. Rinse and repeat and pretty soon you will have a well outfitted shop with the tools you need and use.

With OSB nearly double what it was a year ago I bet your right ?

It's probably my least used sander but when you need it it's nice to have. I used it over the last week to quickly sand some shop made veneer I was using for a box lid I was working on. I was glad I had it.

After using mine for a while I have to say I love this miter fence! I think its price is pretty high but it just works and correctly every time. Very well engineered and the micro adjust is a game changer for me.

Not only is your shop clean your work is as well, great job!!

Nice job on both the mortiser and the web frames! I love how clean and organized your shop always is. It reminds me of high school woodshop and how at the end of every class the shop had to be back to the shape we found it in. I try but some days are better than others ?

Nice job Chet!!

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I actually have both and use them quite often. the lighting in our great room is really poor so if I read its typically in the bedroom chair. We also have an armoire which provides three drawers for the wife's cloths and the top section is used to store electronics for the surround sound system in the bedroom.

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Beautiful wood there!! I look forward to following the build. Curious (if you're comfortable sharing) what you paid for that Sapele? After your BB bargain to say I am jealous would be an understatement. I lost my main source of local lumber for condo's about a year ago and I am still trying to find a replacement. On another note if you get a chance would you send me a pic of your parallel clamp rack? I am going to switch mine up to a design like that so I can regain some much needed wall space in my shop.

I have a General International (no longer in production) 2 drum 25" I run 80 on the first drum and 120 on the second. Early on the open end machines were really problematic but in more recent years it appears they have been greatly improved. While I cannot recall a time when I needed to sand something wider than about 20" or so I imagine for a table top it might come in handy.

Really depends. In my case I needed 30" wide x 10' long for my project so two sheets covers me where it would have taken 3 sheets of 4x8. Since at that point the cost was about the same I went with the higher quality BB which is so nice to work with ? Having said that if I was building cabinets i would have gone a different route. What I typically will not do is buy big box store plywood, while cheaper I have just had to many issues with it. I bought a sheet from Menards a couple years back and it was so bad as I cut it up it started delaminating, while I suspect this was a manufacturing defect, and they did actually refund my money on the cut up sheet, I now try to only use higher quality plywood. It cost more but so much nicer to work with.

No kidding that makes two of us!! What are you doing carrying it off the boat Chet LOL. I suspect finding something cheaper in CA doesn't happen to often but that's crazy cheap compared to $58 a sheet.

Great execution Chet!! On another note you seriously got 3/4" 5x5 BB for $35? I just paid $58 a sheet and had a heck of a time finding it at all.

LOL I was thinking the same thing Kev