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I had a Ryobi bandsaw... I now consider myself a Master bandsaw setter-upper, my services are used up and down the street ...I still celebrate the day I could afford NOT-Ryobi

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Dovefails?

...and married to her girl friend wife.

Dig that Stretch! And how hot is miss backing vocals

Just get a Bergie to make you one after you receive yours from Pants Boy, that way you have a reason not to use your "bespoke" mallet

The decision has been taken not to. Even my two sons, who are 10 and 6 went WOW!

...and boy will that mallet moer, it has quite the weighty head!

looks like a little monkey blowing me a kiss

A thing of beauty just arrived...Thanks pants Boy, pragtige stukkie werk!

Measure twice cut once...the fence needed strenghetning yes, the table insert changed, but other than that just fine. you gotta fix to truley own it

Indeed! New they cost about R10k (a bigger version for R14k) but its streets ahead of any Ryobi

Table saw is quiet a tool once you have a decent one and kit it out with a sliding table, mitre table and a good fence. (I have a DeWalt radial arm saw, which I rarely use) The Makita is a seriously good DIY'ers friend (I have one, secondhand purchase) and I mounted it to a rolling cabinet with lockable castors. So I can move it around when I'm not in need of it or when the sheetgoods need cutting. It's an essential, you can do just about everything with it

Warren :clap:

That explains not using half-lap joints

I had a Ryobi Li-Ion 18v drill driver...it wouldn't stand on its battery when put down a bit hard, the handle was not nice and the entire tool completely out of balance. The 1st battery lasted a month and at that point I returend it to Builders for credit, which I used to buy the DeWalt. One bit of Ryobi that did last and which I rate as a quite good diy'ers router is the 1000W router which they copied off an old Elu router from the early 90's, every so often I still see one for sale at Makro.

Myles, rather save and buy DeWalt then...Ryobi is s h i t, regardless of what colour they package it in. I saved and got the DeWalt 18v Li-Ion with a spare battery last year for R1800. It's worth every sent... HUGE EDIT: Ergonomicaly Ryobi is s h i t too

he is indeed very good, but my, is he full of himself

Stretch, just a question...we all see things diffirently, but why didn't you lap-jointed the X legs i.o. the individual pieces, then laminated the 3 or 4 X legs with lap joints together?

Super rip-off! The Veritas is an absolutely beautiful tool, but at R5k seriously overpriced (online they retails at CAN $ 232) The Stanley Sweetheart range is expensive and even those need truing and at that price ridiculously overpriced. A Stanley #4 I can get you for R580- R700 and I live far from cities.

That is true!

Interesting conversation... I once dated a lady from a foreign country where wood is the major buidling material and in abundance. She was also a structural engineer. I once asked her what her nation's infatuation with wood was...and over many beers while deeply in love I listened and was schooled on woods good properties, the gist of what you just explained and quite the reason why they use it.

B-E-A-UTIFUL! Edit: Thor who?