About 8 years ago I remodeled our kitchen. It was a big job with a huge island. Used 500-600 BF of Euro steamed beach. I justified purchasing a 15" planer and 8" jointer for this project. I actually enjoyed milling my own lumber especially knowing everything was to the same size. Since the big kitchen project I have done smaller projects and had the opportunity to use the jointer/planer on rough sawn lumber I picked up on lumber runs.
Past couple weeks I have been working with my son on a couple of cabinets for him. We had to mill some lumber and it really hit me the amount of time it took even with a helper to mill the lumber (ha, maybe because I want his cabinets out of my garage/shop and in his basement).
So I'm contemplating selling my jointer and planer (probably jointer first) because of:
- Added time to a project.
- Space the tools take up.
- The pain to take the tools out and put them away in a small garage/shop (especially the jointer).
- For some reason lack of lumber runs.
- Have found out local hardwood supplier will join/plane for reasonable price (although his wood is more expensive than I got on lumber run deals).
- Bought a nice lathe about 6 years ago and don't find enough time to turn because of all the flat work projects I have.
Anyone else go through the same thing? Will I regret getting rid of them?
Thanks,
Mike