SuperMaxTools

[Barbara Roberts]

Hi all. Will be buying a new sander soon and wonder if anyone has any experience with the ShopPro25 by SuperMax or any of their products?I am also interested in the Shop Fox sanders as well. Any imput would be appreciated. Tnx.

[Jim Becker]

SuperMax is the reincarnated "big machine" portion of Performax. The tools have a good reputation, as far as I know.

[Barbara Roberts]

Tnx Jim. What about Shop Fox?

[Jim Becker]

What about Shop Fox?

'Not familiar with their sander offerings. Most of the SF tools I've seen have been just fine; feature-laden, white colored, retail offering of similar offerings available direct through Grizzly in green.

[CPeter James]

I have a Performax (Supermax) 25x2 that works pretty good. That said, it is expensive, $3600 +/-. There are others I would look at, among them are General, Performax, and Grizzly. They are heavier and priced $1000 less. Remember these are sanders, not abrasive planers. The Supermax is made in the USA and is easy to work on and easy to load the paper on. I am not totally familiar with the others. I did just look at the Performax at a show recently and was very impressed.

CPeter