Just quit smoking and now my first tool gloat

[Adam Wissman]

Hi, I'm relatively new the the "creek" and love it so far. any way i am a high school senior just getting ready to graduate. (gosh i feel young here) any way i decided to kick the habit and save the extra money to go to my even worse "tool addiction":D i decided to go with the sawstop contractor with the cast iron wings, 36" t glide fence and the mobile base.

i went with sawstop since my father who has only 4 fingers on his left hand. there are no bones in the fingers its all nuts, bolts and screws; they also grow hair on them since the skin on his fingers was taken from his thigh. he cut them all off about 20 years ago and medical bills totaled around $125,000. By the way that is after insurance

Any way, it is definantly a lot more saw than my fathers DeWalt benchtop saw i was using. i have only used it a few times since i bought it and let me say its a joy using. I am very happy i spent my money on something usefull and not on something that went in smoke.


http://s696.photobucket.com/albums/vv327/wissman38/?albumview=slideshow

[Richard Wolf]

Great saw. Good luck with it.

Richard

[Andrew Joiner]

Good for you!
I prefer inhaling clean air too.
The saw will be valuable for a long time and you can make money with it . You may even pass it on to your own child someday. I'd say the tool habit is a good habit to have.

[Scott Mann]

nice, mabey i should quit smoking too, then I might be able to save up enough for one.

[Bill Huber]

Well you can't go wrong with that quitting smoking and the Saw Stop looks like a really good saw.

Just don't forget that the Saw Stop was made by man and it can fail.


So don't stop thinking about safety !!!!

[Ron Bontz]

Well Hmmm. There was research out there somewhere that says the lungs in someone your age will reverse and clean themselves out. 30 years from now you will find that quitting smoking was the smartest thing you ever did with respect to your health. Congrats on the saw and welcome to the Creek. A place with lots of knowledge floating around.:)

[Don Orr]

On many levels. Congratulations on Graduation, cleaning up your lungs, and being smart enough to get a good saw. Just don't get complacent-you still need to be careful. Hope you enjoy all of these accomplshments for a very long time.

[Jeff Miller]

Good for you:)

Since I quit 15 months ago I have added to my tools too:D

Performax 16/32 (used)

Dewalt MBF RAS (used)

Steel City Mortiser (new)

8" Grizzly Jointer (used)

Spiral Cutterhead for 8" jointer (new)

Grizzly G0529 Spindle/disc Sander (used)



Believe me this is a better addiction;) (the tools)



JEFF:D

[ron hokenson]

Adam, I think one of the first things you might consider investing in now that you have stopped smoking is a good dust control system for your woodworking tools. At a young age, eating a little dust doesn't seem so bad, but it all adds up to a long term hazard to your health.

Best of luck to you in the future, and congratulations on your saw and graduation.

...ron

[David DeCristoforo]

If you smoked a pack a day at today's prices, you can pay for that SawStop in two years! And trust me, two years will go be really fast! I wish I'd had the smarts to quit when I was your age instead of waiting till I was 60!

[Greg Crawford]

David, in Texas, because of taxes it would take less than 2 years!

Adam, congratulations! When you look back on life, I think you'll find that quitting the smoking habit was even better than graduating or getting the saw. I was off for 17 years and went back. Now, I'll have to go through it all again.

Don't forget safety, and don't forget that those coffin nails can grab you again if you let them!

[Kelly C. Hanna]

If you smoked a pack a day at today's prices, you can pay for that SawStop in two years! And trust me, two years will go be really fast! I wish I'd had the smarts to quit when I was your age instead of waiting till I was 60!

Exactly what I was thinking....wish I would have never started. No telling what I could afford right now. Best thing I ever did was stop....been almost 10 years now.

[Peter Scoma]

The saw is cool but quitting smoking is the greater gloat by far. (as i light up). Dont ever go back to it!

PS

[Russ Sears]

My dad and I made a deal when I was 10. He would quit smoking if I promised I'd never start. Next month I'll be 50 and he'll be a very healthy and active 83. If you saw him, you would guess he was mid 70's tops. Congratulations on a couple of very wise decisions!

[Jim Sears]

Great idea to stop smoking and put the money towards new tools. I started in 1973 when I was in Boot Camp. Everyone else was smoking on the few breaks that we got while training, and it looked like it really relaxed them. So I jumped on the bandwagon and started "relaxing" with them. Thirty-five years later, I can hardly walk across the shop without being out of breath. Now I have to sit down to "relax" and catch my breath. Dumbest thing I ever did was to start. And now, it's a B*#@! to try and quit. Do yourself a favor, nip it in the bud, and let your lungs clean themselves up while you're still young. No telling what kind of shop I might have if I'd put all that money I've burned up in cigarettes towards new tools.

Welcome to the Creek and congrats on graduation. You'll learn a lot from the guys and gals on here. And if you have a question, no matter what it is, somebody here will most likely have the answer.

[Joel Earl]

Exactly what I was thinking....wish I would have never started. No telling what I could afford right now. Best thing I ever did was stop....been almost 10 years now.

Having inhaled for 44 years, and 41 of them as serious fulltime 2 pack a day, then 3, then 4 packs a day the last 7-8 years before quitting in '07 I will agree totally Kelly - we have no idea what we could afford having stashed the cash away. I don't even want to think about it..............:(

Congrats to you Adam - great decision on stopping and from what I hear a solid saw too. Like someone also said - they made by humans so I'd never trust a SS totally either. Huge improvement over what most of us use tho. Enjoy

[Rod Sheridan]

Adam, congratulations on two excellent decisions.

Welcome to the creek, it's very nice to have members who are...........uh...........um........let's see.........less grey than the rest of us!

I hope you have dust collection in your shop as well.

I don't smoke, however my 82 year old mother started smoking again once she received news of having terminal throat cancer.

Mom sent me to the store to buy cigarrettes for her recently, they're over $8 per pack! I was shocked, being a non smoker I never imagined that it was that expensive.

You should be able to save for a nice Euro combo jointer/planer in a few years at that rate.

Regards, Rod.

[Adam Wissman]

wow just came on this morning and wow a lot of replies, thanks for all the comments, i appreciate it, next thing on my list is a cyclonic dust collector. i have pretty much made up my mind where its coming from. and that will help keep my lungs as clean as they are now. i had to buy delta 50-720 1hp DC to keep up with the dust ports of my new stationary tools. shop vac wasnt cutting it. gosh i love my new addiction:D

william i bought mine at woodcraft for roughly 23 after tax, i believe the one for 17 does not have the cast iron, and the mobile base. i tried working them down but they didnt budge, apparently if they sell one below SS listprice they lose their liscense to sell them(dont see how its legal but its ok.) i am planning on buying the dado cartridge and insert later on, and only got one cartridge. if it activates i'll just go to woodcraft and get another one. thank goodness im close. and Rod, cigarrettes are supposed to go up to $10 a pack by the end of the year. at 8 dollars a pack and at a pack a day i could get a MM fs30 in only a year and half, 1 year and 185 days to be exact. and the new grizzly 12 inch g0634 combo machine in only 8 months. i really hope a brand new MiniMax can persuade some one to stop smoking

[William Diaz]

Congrats on both! :)

Just wondering what you paid for it. They are selling a SawStop like that at Woodcraft, with the fence and some inserts for about 17 before tax. Is that roughly what you paid. And did you get an extra brake or are going to wait in hopes that you may not need to buy one?