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@tugnut1 Has a fair amount of experience with Ego stuff.

That's cool. In my family we have tool showers for guys. Figured its not fair just the woman get showers. Seems a little early for her to be checking his Amazon searches. Might want to rethink this. LOL

LOL, Happened two days ago at the Lie Nielsen site with me. The individual prices were not that bad but I think their cart is broke and totaling wrong ! I did get 3 things ordered including a screwdriver but the spoke shave and sharpening jig is going to have to wait.

Going to miss your unique pictures but got to cover your A ! However you could have replaced them with some bikini eye candy

Although I am a Festool fan like Chris and I agree with what he is saying but I personally would buy whatever trips your trigger for a dust extractor. I have a Festool unit and it works great but I think most vacs would do the job. I have had mine 15 years and have yet to pull the lever for the HEPA filter. If I was a contractor trying to keep a customers place dust free, I might consider it. I like the footprint of the Festool unit compared to a "shop vac" and the fact you can mount systainers on it is nice but they are expensive and not for everyone. 10 to 15 years ago might have been different but there is some good competition out there now. I highly recommend a mini cyclone inline because it does not take long to fill a bag routing or cutting. I fill my cyclone box over and over and the bag only has a tiny bit of dust in it. The fuller your bag gets the more the performance drops on any vac. So if you can use a cyclone instead of bag you are better off.

Yea "one time" is deceiving because they bring stuff back. This corner jig is second time around. If their stuff was not so expensive I would probably buy all of it. Cant dispute the quality but some of its just not worth the price.

Chris, what was their last triangle? The first one time tool I bought was the 18" which is perfect for squaring the MFT and locating rail when crosscutting plywood. It looks like yours on the wall but hard to tell the scale of things so now sure how big the one is on your picture. Tony, looking forward to you getting your CNC !

Don't like them or just haven't used them as much as you thought you would?

I dont know what it is about the Woodpeckers one time tools they produce but half of them seem to be things I MUST have. I just hate waiting months for them to build and ship. My latest came today. Cant wait to use them

I always worry about snow and even more ice this time of year as the trees seem to be prone to damage so dont need the extra weight hanging on them. We have had 80s already in Iowa which is nuts but dropping down into the mid 30s the last few days. Does not know what it wants to do.

I am all for the bling and craftsmanship on a bench! I just know I dont get as much done as I should because I am trying to keep things need. Kinda like my tractor when i first got it. Got to get past the first scratch.

True ! My projects and abilities are commonly hindered because I dont want to mess up my bench.

Looks good. Why does the base stick out so far? Was there something else on it?

http://www.staples.com/Brother-P-touch-PTP900W-142-Wireless-Powered-Desktop-Laminated-Label-Printer-Black/product_IM14X0708?cid=PS:GooglePLAs:IM14X0708&ci_src=17588969&ci_sku=IM14X0708&KPID=IM14X0708&cvosrc=PLA.google-SALES.Shredders%2C Projectors %26 Office Machines&cvo_crid=39357180582&cvo_campaign=173943582&gclid=COPS_7y5tdMCFQiIaQodDOMACw These are weather proof and hold up to gas and oil. Prints and applies clear film over the top as it comes out.

I am with you on this one @SetBuilder. I think it should be fine and falls into what I would use the tool for as well. I use it more for mechanical work than anything else.

Why is going from 1/4" to 1/2" a big issue? I can see going from 1/2 to 1/4" being an issue. I use 1/4" drive in all three socket sizes and have never had an issue. Its 3/8" I used most often but I have used 1/2" on a 1/4 drive to install lug-nuts and then torqued them with a torque wrench do do the real tightening. @BMack37 I am surprised you have not had good luck with Milwaukee bits. The recent surge stuff I have used is superior to anything I have tried over the years.

I would say its a two man job working with a 4x8 sheet of that stuff. 3/4" is hard enough

I think its all about movement. There is a lot that goes into how you build a top. Needs to be able to move seasonally as the weather changes. And you dont want to go back and re level the top of a regular basis. From a rigidity standpoint I think most woods will work. Even 2x4s on end. But from a movement standpoint you need to pick the right wood including how that species of wood is ripped. If I could afford it, I would probably use maple or certain types of beech. In my Rob Cosman workshop class I watched him build a bench out of vertically laminated MDF. Was actually pretty impressive and cant beat the cost,

I like the Rob Paulk bench too but if you want to chop wood with a chisel, I would rather have something with more mass.

Yea, a shallow cut is less inclined to tear the bottom surface of the board out. I often score the board with a quick pass over it at about 1/16" and then make a deeper cut. If you look at the blade a shallow cut is slicing the fibers parallel to the board. The deeper the cut the more the teeth on the blade are pulling straight down.

I had no idea those Martins had a small scoring blade them too. I suppose probably common to high end panel saws.

I do not the space to dedicate to a full time miter station. I also do not have enough patience to set one up every time I need to use it. So this is my compromise setup. My miter saw (and sander for that matter) is on a slide. So I pull the saw out until it hits stops and I have two threaded knobs that lock the slide in place. In this picture the saw is pulled about 2/3 of the way out. I have Fast Cap Best Fence rails for it. You can see them stored under my clamps. The Best Fence rails clip to the saw and adjustable rail mounts on the ends. You can see the left one but the right one cant be seen. The saw surface planes with the work bench top so if I need to cut something short or to the left I can do so without installing the rails.

Hardware is in about 4 different places in my shop depending what it is. Towards the center right I have a traditional bolt bin which holds bolts, nuts, washers, etc that I purchase by the pound. It also has tie wraps, threaded wood inserts and T-nuts along with a few other things. Below that I have Bosch L-Boxx drawers and L-Boxx hinge lid containers . Each of those has a mix of things from Automotive electrical like fuses and crimp connectors, to hot rod anodized fittings for fuel and nitrous to stainless specialty hardware. One has anchors like tap-cons and lag type. This center bench has a Festool sortainer with bits for screw guns and various other specialty wood screws, shelf brackets, etc. The Lboxx containers on the left are for audio misc hardware, ham radio Misc Hardware, One has small nails and pneumatic nailer pins and nails and the last one has normal wood screws in brass and steel. In my rolling work bench I have a systainer full of Kreg Screws and plugs And finally the red storage boxes on the wall have larger deck screws, tractor related parts like hydraulic couplings, hitch pins and lots of other stuff I cant find a place for

Do you spend much time there? I selectively visit when needed, but have a hard time relating with the majority of that crowd.

Seems to me it would be for people that build high end stuff that gets knocked down and shipped. He has some crazy stuff. I think he has a fetish for off the wall tools. To be honest 7 out of 10 items in his shop are things I have never heard of. I like nice tools but festool is as exotic as it gets for me.