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What will be your next woodworking tool purchase? Why?

What would this new tool do for you that you can't already do now?
 

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Ken wants a bigger bandsaw, I just want a bandsaw. My next major purchase will probably be a good 14in bandsaw. It'll allow easier resawing, more accurate cutting of curves and will replace my table saw for ripping.

Why? More versatility and less space used up in my tiny shop vs the table saw, which will be sold.
 
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Hi Cricket
The next tool purchase, I received today a Festool domino 500. I resisted spending the high cost of buying this tool but think it will increase the ease and speed of building furniture making my prices a little more competitive. In general I think the cost of most of the Festool tool line is beyond my budget. I have now investigated what a domino tool can do and it's ease of use,so I hope it's worth what is for me a very large investment.

Here's a link about it's uses


Have a great thanksgiving Cricket and all of the LJ gang
 
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if this were just a question of the larger tools, I would consider replacing my old craftsman 10" table. It is approaching 25 years old. I like the sawstop but will most likely go for the Laguna platinum. Reality says this will not happen for awhile. So, I would like to get a nice shoulder plane.
 
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I want a CNC Router. I'm waiting for a good used CAMASTER to come up after the first of the year. There was a sweet one just came up but west coast, and finances did not permit it. However, after 1/1/16, i'm ready.

I want to use it to speed making some parts for my wine cabinets I've been making, and to use for 4th axis to turn legs
 
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I'd like a garage that is twice as big so I can walk around & get to everything I want to without unloading half the garage to get to it! :)
 
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Just bought a cigar shaped spokeshave. I am working on a project that has some tight curves I just cannot get to with anything else that I have. For !$40.00 thought it was a good deal. Since I cut off part of my left index finger tip, I have gone pretty much to all hand tools and I like it that way. Much quieter and less dust, and a more satisfying experience with the wood overall. Since I do this for enjoyment, not profit, I want to actually enjoy it. I don't like all the noise, dust ,whirring metal parts I have to worry with and I do enjoy the peace and quite and the sound of a good sharp plane as it does it's magic on a piece of wood.
 
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The next large purchase will probably be a 3HP cyclone dust collector.

The next small tool purchase will be a extension bit holder for my impact screw driver. It is an add-on add-on for amazon and I am waiting till I get the $25 min for free shipping.
 
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Having started from mostly nothing back in March, I've added a 10" benchtop saw, a 12" DB Mitre Saw, a plunge saw with guide rails, a combi-router with bits and rail adapter to use the same rails as the plunge saw, a jigsaw, and various stands and accessories for all of it.

So it's already been an expensive year, but the next major tool is a planer/thicknesser. That and a spindle shaper are the only things I really covet when going through the tool catalogs now. I've got a bandsaw that was delivered yesterday awaiting assembly and would like to add some finishing equipment to my toolkit. Ok, a drill press too. One day a cabinet saw. But I gotta say, for now, I'm mostly there.

Having coveted so much for so long, it's rather an odd sensation. She who must be obeyed is relieved though :D
 
#18 ·
Crapsman table saw recently bit the dust. Replace or?? I would love to have a cnc, and promiced myself one for Christmas. Had to buy my wife a newer car so she could go to work and take me to my Dr apts. RATS! No cnc for me this year. Now I need a truck to replace my old 86 150 that gave up the ghost and had to be crushed. GLOOM DISPARE AND AGONY ON ME! But hey I AM learning to walk again, so life is good. I left the walker at home last night and only used a cane to get into and out of the resturant. Major step forward. Oh I did buy a 10by18 lathe the other day, now just have to wait for my son to get time to opened it up and onto a table. The wife is going to build a lower table for it so I can sit and still do something worthwhile. She basicaly owns the shop now since I can't stand up and work. Hell she took over and crowded me out long before I was disabled. And threw my "NO GIRLSES" sign in the firewood bin. Women are a bane to mans existance.
 
#20 ·
Not very exciting, but I'm planning to buy the Jet Air Filtration System (the one with 1000cfm that hangs from the ceiling.) I will probably try to get it on a Black Friday sale, online of course.

It will allow me to remove the fine dust that floats around my shop even with reasonably good dust collection. I'm hoping to help protect my lungs long term.
 
#21 ·
My next purchase will be shop time as I never seem to have enough.

Actually it will probably be in the dust collection area, maybe a Filter Queen as they are quite HEPA rated, and the filters don't clog.
 
#24 ·
I've kinda lost the "passion" for the craft but if I regain it I guess dust collection would be #1, followed by an 8" jointer (I cry when I have to cut a wider plank in order to fit my 6") and then another RAS (doing "rough work" like notching 4×4's is certainly easier when I can see the cut lines).
 
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