Advice RE: next equipment purchase

[Jim Becker]

J/P's are a bit different with dust collection and don't have as much benefit from "gravity" like the separate tools do. Things can get plugged up very quickly without DC or when one, um...forgets...to open the gate. ("speaking for a friend"...heh...heh...) It's all in how the ports are setup on a combo. I'd be very surprised if any J/P combo manufacturer didn't require DC for proper operation. All of the major brands like Felder/Hammer and SCM/Minimax do for sure.

[Ole Anderson]

As soon as you get a jointer or planer, you are going to start to generate huge amounts of wood chips/sawdust. Seriously think about sawdust collection sooner than later as others have mentioned.