Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mgweed.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!mgnetp!mgweed!lwc From: lwc@mgweed.UUCP (Larry Ciesla) Newsgroups: net.rec.wood Subject: Re: request for info on planers Message-ID: <21361@mgweed.UUCP> Date: Fri, 1-Nov-85 13:18:21 EST Article-I.D.: mgweed.21361 Posted: Fri Nov 1 13:18:21 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 3-Nov-85 04:59:00 EST References: <344@tove.UUCP> Distribution: net.rec.wood Organization: AT&T Information Systems - Montgomery Illinois Lines: 37 Dave Stotts writes: > > > I am thinking about purchasing a planer for my woodshop. I have several > rooms in my house to finish off, and I think that I can save enough money > planing rough lumber down to siding to make the cost of the planer low > enough to justify in the short term. So I wonder if any of you woodworkers > out there have a planer now that you are pleased with that you would tell > me about... or if you have one you are not pleased with, tell me why it is > no good. > > Here's another topic for discussion... which power tool is more useful > to you as a woodworker...a table saw, or a band saw? Table saws are more > often the first tools purchased for a shop, but several articles I have read > in Fine Woodworking on setting up a shop have recommended buying a band saw > first, as it is more versatile (resaws lumber) and its work less easily > duplicated by other tools. Any opinions? > > Dave Stotts > Univ. of Maryland Computer Science I have had a band saw for about two years now, and wonder how I ever did without it. But the bandsaw has a number of limiting factors that make it unusable in some situations - try to cut a 4 X 8 sheet of plywood in half with one! Bandsaws and table saws each can do certain operations that cannot be done on the other. Since many of the cuts done with a bandsaw might be done with a hand held scroll saw, or even an old fashion coping saw, I would opt for the table saw first. Of course, one could argue that the operations done with a table saw could also be done with handheld saws, and so why not get a band saw first. As for myself, my first saw was a radial arm saw. Now, we could easily get into the discussion - which is better? The radial arm saw or the table saw!! One thing is certain, though, which ever you buy. Buy the best quality tool you can afford, and have fun! Larry Ciesla