I am in the process of moving my woodworking Hobby from the basement to a newly built 2 Car 2 story garage and think it is time to upgrade my junk table saw. The problem is I can't decide what features are more important for me and it is driving me insane. At first thought for what I want to do more horsepower seems like a no-brainer but in all honesty just in trying to set up the garage the way I want it, having a table saw around with the larger rip capacity would have been a godsend.
The two choices are a 1.5-2 horsepower saw with 50-plus inch Rip capacity or a 3 + horsepower saw with a 30 inch or so rip capacity
If I was more experienced and had been doing this longer it would be easier to choose but with being new to woodworking I don't really know which would be best for me because for all I know my interest will change in a few months after I start getting comfortable with things. At the moment my main interests would be trying to build guitars and trinket boxes which is why the smaller rip capacity made more sense to me
I've been going insane thinking about it for a few weeks now with the money burning a hole in my pocket but I'm so sick of thinking about it I'm tempted to just buy a three to four hundred dollar table saw that has a 30 inch Rip capacity to hold me over until my hobby dictates the tool i need