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flyguy1821:
Good LORD!! DO not buy that thing! Looks as small as a Dremel mounted on its side. Dont waste money on junk. Buy a middle of the road craftsman if you arent going to use it much. You will be very thankful you did.
ScoopKW:
If you want to save money on power tools, check out your local pawnshop first.
I just bought I $200 jigsaw for $25.
Basically, many carpenters are always in financial trouble. Their loss is your gain. (Callous but true.)
ScoopKW
lokki:
Hi,
I bought the following package from Home depot
Ryobi
18-Volt "The Works" 8-Pack Cordless Combo
HomeDepot.Com Link
Not professional tools. but all I have need to build my Cabinet. And do some work around the house.
I bought black friday so it was $180.00 instead of the listed $250.00 price.
DrewKaree:
--- Quote from: ScoopKW on June 09, 2005, 11:05:19 pm ---If you want to save money on power tools, check out your local pawnshop first.
I just bought I $200 jigsaw for $25.
Basically, many carpenters are always in financial trouble. Their loss is your gain. (Callous but true.)
ScoopKW
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Making a blanket statement like that demonstrates a lack of understanding. My brother-in-law is a carpenter. I do side work with him (carpentry stuff). I know several of his buddies that my company use for projects we subcontract to them.
If a carpenter sells his tools, how does he WORK in order to make MORE money in order to get further into or out of financial burdens? The "need quick money" carpenter you are speaking of has that need because some lowlife dirtbag scumball broke into his truck/garage/house, stole his tools, and sold them to a pawnshop where someone picks them up and tells everyone that's where down-on-their-luck carpenters look to score a few quick bucks.
Your "callous but true" logic has been refuted by dozens of people I personally know, changing your "callous" comment to something more along the lines of ignorant of basic precepts of business. If some guy waves you over to the alley to look at some tools he's "selling cheap, what do you need?" you guess one thing. Because the guy didn't wave you over to the alley and has a parking lot next to his building, you don't even stop to think twice about it, or make your "educated guess"?
* DrewKaree shakes his head and wonders how some folks make it home alive every day
DrewKaree:
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Ouch! That kind of thing can't happen with the Festool saw. (Sorry to keep bringing up a $400 circular saw, but I love the thing!) 8)
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Yeah, I've been drooling over a Fein router....I know what "tool lust" is ;)
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Sounds like you do a lot of woodworking, Drew -- true?
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Not a whole lot for myself personally, but yeah. Kitchen remodels, basement makeovers, bathroom installs/remodels, demo/ripout/remodels....some basic case construction and more finish carpentry than I care for (I hate the math angles....found a chart from WOOD and had it laminated ;D )
Brother-in-law has enough tile and carpentry jobs that the money is either going to be dynamite, or the job gets turned down :) Other brother-in-law does electrical, and father-in-law used to do rough framing....I just get to learn from all of 'em. I've got to die in order to have enough time to do all the projects people "you could build this for me, hey?" to me, and I'll never turn down a new job/project where I'd learn something new. Apprentice of everything, master of nothing ;)