If we get the checks, what are we going to buy?

I’ve got my eye on an oscillating spindle sander. Even though the guy at Sears told my daughter there was no such thing, I’m gonna buy one anyway.

-- When you give someone a chance it may well be their last.

An OSS would be nice!

-- Gary, East TX -- The longest journey begins with a single step.

As my patriotic duty I will try to use it to purchase something that is made in America. Preferably sold locally.

-- Hope Never fails

Ridgid OSS, or DowelMax. I have a real dilemma…, maybe both.

-- Maplewood, MN

That’s an interesting angle… I’ll have to try that with the wife.

“Look, the reason for the rebate is to help boost the economy, right? So it is my DUTY to spend this money at a local woodworking store and help do just that!”

-- Ethan, http://www.merganserwoodworks.com, http://greystonegreen.blogspot.com/

That’s it! Patriotic duty for Country.

-- Maplewood, MN

I’m never optimistic about anything untill I see it. It will be spent with care, if it materalizes!!!

-- www.flickr.com/photos/egamarine/

If that miracle were to actually take place, I will most likely purchase a Jointer/Planer Combo.

-- Festool4

pay off debts!

-- making sawdust....

Are any cheques coming north of the border?

-- The significant problems we face cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them

I think I see a table saw in my future. been making do with a bench top unit that is great at cutting
various wedge shaped boards, but I’ve been holding out for a cabinet saw so this may be just the shove I need. Will also have to get some lumber for a coffee table the wife has wanted. I’ve told her that I couldn’t build it until I get a saw that can cut straight.

-- Frank Auge---Nichols NY----"My opinion is neither copyrighted nor trademarked, but it is price competitive."

Zuki – All you north of the border folk are getting left out of this one, sorry.

I’m not holding my breath though.

-- Gary, East TX -- The longest journey begins with a single step.

wood.

-- Matt, Napa, CA...119 days to sanity...

Travel Alberta

-- You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. (Plato)

Pssst… nobody tell my wife about the checks!

Assuming she doesn’t get to the mailbox first and waste the money paying off credit cards, a Ridgid OSS or Dewalt Planer – depends on how generous Bush is (with our money).

-- JC - Central PA - www.affyx.com

Jeff,

Just how much money are we talking about?

For our LJs from the North, this is all a plot. Noticed your Canadian $ has recently raised considerably in value compared to the lowly US $? This change of good fortune for our Northern Friends will force them to buy US made products because the Canadian $ can buy so much more of our goods. Between what the Canadians will be spending and what we will be with our checks (not sure how much), we will be on the road to economic recovery.

Dalec

Latest number I heard today was $600 for individuals and $1200 for family’s.

-- Adrian ..... The 11th Commandment...."Thou Shalt Not Buy A Wobble Dado"

My Wife just read some stuff on the proposal. It is what Adrian has reported and if you have children, you get an additional $300 for a total of $1,500. She also said the report she was reading said the checks would go out in May.

$600 is a nice amount of money for tools and materials. $1,200 is even better if anyone know how to work that.

Dalec

I’m not holding my breath. But it will be spent for something useful. Like maybe wood.

-- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com

Karson, I saw photos of your workshop and wood supply, do you have room for more wood? :)

Dalec

If I understand this thing, if you paid no income tax last year but you had 3,000 adjusted gross income you will only receive $300.00 for single and $600.00 for a couple, so what does that mean to people on S/S who were lucky enough not to have there Social Security Benefits taxable last year but had other income and because your S/S/B were not taxable you did not have pay any income tax. If I’m wrong about this will someone please explain it, if I’m right I wonder were the clearing house for advertise also known as AARP were on this. Well I guess my new band saw will have to wait a little longer.

gonna get one !!!!

-- ..... art for lifes sake ... danwalters@lumberjocks.com

Woo Hoo. Looks like we’ll be getting a little bonus this year. Politics aside, always nice to have some tool money. Looks as if my two rugrats will be buying me a jointer! About time they brought something to the table. So really what to buy???? Max out my IRA contribution, college fund, right . . . Bring on the 8”.

-- Jeff, South Carolina

I’m with you Mike on the S/S impact. I guess that means we don’t count. We don’t spend enough to make a difference.

-- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com

Bandsaw!!! wait… wait… umm… jointer….. Both?

I’ll be paying my kids college tuition….So much cost…. so little funds.

-- Chris

just like last time, many of us will be saving it, or putting it towards debt reduction – no economy stimulating here!

-- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/

I will likely pay off debt. If I do decide to spend the money on tools I will make darn sure I buy something made in the good ole USA. We’ve let too much of our industry leave the country as is. It might be pretty hard for me to find something made in the US. Are there any 8” jointers or drum sanders made in the US?

-- Owen Johnson - aka IowaWoodcrafter

i think ill buy me a home in mexico , seems like theres gotta be a bunch of empty ones over there !

us northerners just got out BIG CASH—the GST (tax) went down 1%.. WOO HOO we’re spending more now!!! oh yah.

-- "Functional WoodArt" by Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

Hey MsDeb.. With the cut to the GST, 2 Tim Horton’s coffees is only $2.75…. No more pennies rolling around in the car,

-- Brian's Table Top Toys http://home.mountaincable.net/~bgraham/

Let’s see, I have the Ridgid OSS and the dewalt planer (most likely made with many chinese parts). I guess a new bandsaw would be a welcome addition, like that power matic that’s on sale now with the extras for $900.00…..Hmmmmm how many rice bowls can you fill up with 900 green backs?

-- Brian, Virginia Beach

My first thought was the Domino——Then I read the post about buying American——-Hummmmmm—-Now I have to put some thought into this.

-- http://www.grandprairiewoodworks.com

IF…..pinkhandcuff girl will let me….hmmmm…...maybe…....so many choices…..wood? jointer? planer? spindle sander? Dunno.

-- Adrian ..... The 11th Commandment...."Thou Shalt Not Buy A Wobble Dado"

There are so many tools that I want/need. Wishful thinking, it would be nice if the powertool makers.retails would put on some sales to stimulate sales to coincide with the rebate checks arrivals.

Dalec

I need lots of tools, so…
I think another “Smith” would do the trick nicely. “You can’t have too many”, I always say, although my wife does not necessarily agree with that philosophy. -SST

-- Accuracy is not in your power tool, it's in you

to the credit card for what I’ve already purchased!

-- Paul, Texas

I’m with you on that Paul! But hopefully a used DeWalt 788 and stand for $350.00 will be on the card by then.

-- "Bordnerizing" perfectly good lumber for over a decade.

I wonder how many people have already spent they money on the assumption that they will receive it later this year?

I will be waiting to see if it gets here first. If so, then probably a few tools. Since I just bought the DeWalt planer and Ridgid OSS, the list has gone down quite a bit.

-- Bill, Turlock California, http://www.brookswoodworks.com

Not really sure what I’d get (after paying bills). This will require some
serious thought and planning (not to mention convincing oration on my part).

Perhaps a new router lift is in store me me this year….

-- Still learning everything

I’d honestly be fighting a very strong urge to save it…but should it happen (and I’m guessing it will), it really should be spent.

That said I sure could use a new drill press and some american-made S&D pipe to complete my dust collection system! Woo-hoo!

Of course, I could always use another router, a horizontal router table, some new tablesaw blades, a couple hand planes…mmmm, hand planes.

How much money we talking about again? :)

-- Patrick, Chicago, IL www.TenonAndSpline.com

J Jackson
Boy did you open up a can of wishes here. $300 bucks doesn’t go very far for tools, college tuition!!...wouldn’t buy a semesters worth of books, and have you seen the price of lumber lately? I guess it’s nice to dream but I’m not getting excited till I hit the powerball jackpot, and I don’t even play. A fun post none the less.

Love the ski pic Mot, that’s you right?

Okay okay, a domino would be nice.

-- DocK, WV

Everyone seems to want the Rigid OSS. I seem to see a lot of them on Craigs list. That worries me.

I’m leaning more toward the Grizzly G1071 OSS.

-- Gary, East TX -- The longest journey begins with a single step.

Jointer is high on the list right now…but with other issues that need to be addressed, it looks like it will be going into house repairs, insulating and wireing the shop area. I’ll just have to start crunching numbers and see how much is left.

-- Greg - Charles Town, WV

Wasn’t is supposed to be $600 for a single filer, $1,200 for a couple with an extra $300 per kid?
That’s 1,800 clams for Mrs. Flintstone and myself to divy up and go shopping with. That comes out to right around $600 for yours truly to have fun with…

-- Still learning everything

I don’t know, this will stimulate the economy soo much we all can buy what we want!!!!!!!!
YES FREE AT LAST!!!!!!!! My ship has cometh in !!!!

OK Il’l buy a Bandsaw

-- MARK IN BOB, So. CAL

If we get these green backs like they say by the looks of all the posts I’ve just read the Chineese should be able to pay for te Olympics with change to spare

-- Ed Collinge- Edmonds, WA.

Trouble is, you won’t get the checks until around June. By then you will need them to pay off the loan you got to pay your 2007 income taxes. We’re doing the books now and with the losses we had I’ll probably miss out on this one as well. Doo-dah!!!

-- Thos. Angle, Owyhee Design, Oregon

If you feel the need to buy U.S. Products. Here is a website that links to them

However, I was also made in the USA so if you all want to make those checks over to gizmodyne that would be swell too. I promise to stimulate the economy.

-- -John "Do I have to keep typing a smiley? Just assume it's a joke." www.flickr.com/photos/gizmodyne

Hey Giz, thanks for that link. I am going to find it useful.

-- Maplewood, MN

Don’t whack me for saying it but I don’t think I need any power tools right now. I would only need to get bigger ones and therein lies madness.

I am looking to upgrade my chisels. I am torn between the socket chisels from LN and the Ashley Iles bench chisels.

I guess I’ll have to make sure to spend bills from a pay check if I decide to buy the British ones.

Come to think of it, I have been lusting after a shoulder plane and the three I have lusted after most are made in Canada, The US and GB respectively.

So with the exchange rate the way it is, maybe buying Candian could have a trickle down effect because the money would end up in the US?

Not counting chickens . . .

-- Scott - Chico California http://chicowoodnut.home.comcast.net

I thought about buying some turning tools, or a new band saw, or maybe one of those Oneway lathe chucks. I couldn’t find anything made in the US. Isn’t that the idea? If I spend the money on a foreign made goods, my fellow Americans won’t be put to work. So I made a decision. I am going to take the money to Foxwoods Casino in CT. This will work. Native American tribes backed by Arab investors can use this cash. But wait! Gasoline is so expensive and I will most likely loose the cash anyway. I know, I’ll send some to John McCain so he can have his tooth fixed, or some for Hillary Clinton so she can buy a dress, and some for Rudy so he can get new false teeth. That’l work.

-- Mike, Massachusetts

I could use a jointer and or planer with a big IF, I am one of those Senior Citizens who is retired and paid my dues my whole life and always get it in the shorts when The Government doles out freebes, Not to knock my government but we are always the forgotten ones…....MIKE

-- never enough time in a day so use it well

While it would help more if you bought American made, at least it would help the retailers and employees you bought from. They depend on sales for their livelyhood, and most of them are American owned. And if you by from a local owned company, more benefit returns to the community.

While I find the amount of the checks to be on the small side (double the checks would be more stimulus), I will probably spend it on a tool for the shop. I still have not narrowed it down yet. Most of the tools I would buy are more than the checks, so it would be more like a down payment rather than a purchase.

-- Bill, Turlock California, http://www.brookswoodworks.com

Jointer plane
Better smooth plane than what I have (or maybe a Hock blade to build my own)
Bandsaw blades
Router bits

On second thought….gasoline… My other great passion in life is fishing. My boat is 25’ with a GMC 350ci engine. I carry 125 gallons at 50 cents over street prices will make this an expensive year. What the hell, we are going to be dead a long time.

-- Mike, Massachusetts

Hate to tell you guys this, but from what I read today, this money is only an advance on next year’s tax return and not extra money. You have to pay it back.

-- Stick

Save it so I can pay my taxes NEXT year :)

-- Rick, Jackson, TN "Do What You Like. Like What You Do" Life Is Good

My wife suggested on buying the complete set of Benjamin Seaton saws, made my Wenzloff & Sons.

Tempting as that is (and it’s oh-so tempting), I’d rather use it to build me a shop a little bigger than 6’x6’. I like cozy, but that’s just ridiculous! ;)

-- "Give me your poor tools, your tired steel, your huddled masses of rust." Yep, I ripped off the Statue of Liberty. That's how I roll!

Somehow, I think my wife will be hawking the mailbox, but I’ll try. It would go to fixing up my garage shop.

-- Bob K. East Northport, NY