Delta 36-454 for First Table Saw?

[Frederick Skelly]

I agree with Andy. Get the cabinet saw if you can afford it.

[Mike Manning]

Yeah, I'm just thinking that at $650 I'm close to the money of a used cabinet saw. For example, there's a 1990 3HP Powermatic Model 66 for sale locally for $1000. It's got a mobile base, 50" extension, Biesemeyer fence. It's funny the longer you look the higher your budget gets - I'm now strongly considering that saw. I tell myself: "it's just a little more and you'll probably never need anything else". LOL

With that PM 66 TS you probably would never need another table saw. Big difference between want and need though. You sound dangerously, no deliciously, close to that slippery slope of OWWM. Come on in the water's great! :-)

[scott spencer]

Nice saw, but is high for an old style contractor saw with an outboard motor and no riving knife. At $500, it'd be a consideration, but $650 puts you too far into the range of a huge step up into a full cabinet saw.