not quite neander tools

[Aaron Kline]

Was just wandering how many people use a table saw for all their projects. I myself don't have one and get along alright with a rip saw and then clean it up with a plane.

[Tony Zaffuto]

Aaron,

These are tough questions! Make it easy on some of us and add a category: "How many use a table saw, but are using it less and less?".

T.Z.

[Dave Anderson NH]

Then there's the old, "How many use a table saw but won't publicly admit it?" :D

[Mark Singer]

Dave,

If you just don't hit the switch...it cuts slower but then we can discuss it on this Forum


Then there's the old, "How many use a table saw but won't publicly admit it?" :D

[John Miliunas]

What's a "handsaw"? :confused: I thought the idea here was to KEEP all our digits AND hands, not to go BUY one to cut your hand off! :eek: Sheeeeesh....Not at all sure about this Neander thing! :D :) :cool:

[Steve Wargo]

but I do use my Laguna Band saw a lot. I just dont resaw or rip that well with a hand saw.

[Jamey Amrine]

I had a line on a nice Delta Tilting Arbor Saw for a really good price. I bought it and it sat waiting for me to hook up 220V in my garage. Just about done with the electrical hookup, and I sold the saw last week. I decided I could get along fine with a band saw, circular saw, and hand saws. I never even switched the thing on. Plus, with a 14x20 shop, that thing was taking up half my floor space.

-Jamey

[Tony Zaffuto]

I forgot to add in my earlier post that I use my table saw every day! Great flat surface for assembly, one of the cast iron wings is near perfect for flatness and is great for "Scary Sharp" and yes, once or twice a week it is switched on. Also, when I set up my shop, I made my bench the same height as the table saw, so as to use the bench to support the off-cuts. Because of the close proximty to the bench, my saw has become the "catch-all" place for laying tools instead of the bench!

Haven't done cross cuts on it for months (love them by hand!) and use it less and less for rips (still can't quite convince myself to replace it with one of my rip saws).

All in all this makes the saw worth far more to me than what I paid for it.

Seriously though, I will probably always have a table saw, along with my jointer, bandsaw, drill press and planer. Items to go include the radial arm saw, my Performax 16-32 drum sander, the 12" disc sander and probably the shaper. Those items definitely are just wasting space!

[Bob Hovde]

I have a Shopsmith. I used to use it for cutting everything (slowly, due to weak power). Now I have a large BS. I used to use it for turning bowls (small bowls, due to light weight). Now I have a PM 3520, that I'll use as soon as my electrical passes inspection. The Shopsmith is now a very good, but expensive, sander and drill press. It'll mainly sit in my shop with a sanding disk on the back end and the Beall buffing wheels on the front end. For the occasional large flat work I do, it can be rolled out into the garage. I even can do panels with the extension tables set up (not quick), but 4x8s are easier to cut with a CS first. I guess you could say I now have an "emergency" table saw.

Bob

[Bob Smalser]

Today I pull some rough lumber for the next boat to dry out some. Will be scarfing the bottom planks next week and ripping them to 4" planks.

I'll be doing 15 white pine planks that are 19' long...

....think I'm gonna do all that ripping with Disston, or with Freud? ;)

[Tony Zaffuto]

Come on Bob!

Our Penna. white pine, when dry, cuts like butter (said in complete jest)!. Several years ago we picked up several hundred board feet of white pine to make paneling for our camp. Dried it in a "climate controlled" room in one of our buildings, to 9 - 10% moisture content (musty, damp hunting camp, you know), and made the paneling.

Yes, Mr. Freud helped, but only in the shaper cutters! Mr. Woodmaster helped in the ripping!

T.Z.

[Tom LaRussa]

Was just wandering how many people use a table saw for all their projects. I myself don't have one and get along alright with a rip saw and then clean it up with a plane.
Aaron,

You won't find many hard-core, hand-tools-only, neanders around here.

Most of us are what I call Krenovian. We use the tool that will do the best job for the task at hand.