Originally Posted by
Steve Demuth
Most tools on CL here in the upper midwest are indeed junk. The exception is listings from actual businesses upgrading equipment, or going out of business, for machine tools, for example. Those keep me looking. But if you're looking for common woodworkers tool, like a table saw or jointer, 99% of what you see won't be worth the search time. But even then, there are exceptions. A couple of months back, there was Northfield Model 4 Table saw, with the sliding table listed an hour and half drive from me that was a gem (I'm pretty sure it was a real listing, because it had good photographs of the saw from many angles, in a real shop setting.)