Reluctant Tool Gloat

Good for you, we all wait and save and save to have such nice machinery. Im sure that you deserve it … gloat on brother!

-- "there aren’t many hand tools as awe-inspiring as the #8 jointer. I mean, it just reeks of cast iron heft and hubris" - Smitty

Great looking machines. I personally like tool gloats. Let us know how they work. Seems like grizzly offers a lot of bang for the buck.

Congrats on your new equipment.
I’m interested in a review of the 691. That’s the saw I have been eyeballing. Sure is slick looking.

-- Don't rollerskate in a buffalo herd

Sweeeeet! I’m Grizzly green with envy!

-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"

Great to see you pleased with your new tools!

-- Randy "You are judged as much by the questions you ask as the answers you give..."

Okay, I’m confused. Is it a gloat when you get new tools…or when you get new tools at an outrageous price???

Regardless, I think I’d be gloating too, Chipy!

-- jay, www.allaboutastro.com

You will love that bandsaw! I have the same one and have never regretted buying it. I added a Carter Stabilizer and really like it for intricate cut using 1/4” and 1/8” blades. It also plows through 12” Hedge logs with a 1” TW blade. That versatility is what amazes me.

-- " I'll try to be nicer, if you'll try to be smarter" gfadvm

Nice bandsaw…...

WE have a 20” Grizz BS here….one thing that will really help is to rig up an air blast to help clear swarf when resawing.I mounted a mini regulator to side of BS…..it has a QD that attatches to “shop air”,hose.By having the regulator on saw we don’t have to dink with main.Shoot a flex hose/nozzle right at the top of cut,blowing straight down.Attatch this nozzle to the blade guide….it’ll go up and down when adj the gaurd.10# or so of air makes a tremendous assist when resawing.Oh yeah,spend some quality time on dust collection,it too makes a big diff when resawing.636

Looks good from here. Congrats!!

-- "some old things are lovely, warm still with life ... of the forgotten men who made them." - D.H. Lawrence Wake Up America!! Please read; http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/01/26-0

Congrats, you have every the perfect opportunity for a little gloat! Those are some serious machines! Enjoy, now go make some sawdust!!!!!

-- "Man's ingenuity has outrun his intelligence" (Joseph Wood Krutch)

You know, this is what we get for all the days we got up and didn’t want to go to work, but did it anyway. I don’t think anything compares to the feeling of getting what we have dreamed about. Enjoy

Les

-- Stay busy....Stay young

Those look great Chipy. You will have fun using them for sure…congrats on the new equipment.

-- Wayne - Plymouth MN

Wow. nice buy. Did you go all Grizzly for a reason? No complaints here just asking.

-- Anthony

woodzy yes Grizzly was the right choice for me! As much as I would have liked to buy a Delta Uni-saw or a Powermatic pm 2000 I bought The Table saw (3hp 50” fence)the band saw(17”2hp cast iron trunnion,cast iron wheels,re-saw fence,HTC Roller out feed table and heavey duty mobile bases for both machines all this for the cost of the Delta.If I bought a Powermatic I would have been able to throw in a mortise machine for its cost.So far I am more than pleased at the quality as well!

Nice!!!! No shame in a gloat. None at all. It probably makes you happy to look at the pictures from wherever you are right now. Brings you where you like to be for a moment or so. That’s why I post so many pictures;)

-- My dad and I built a 65 chev pick up.I killed trannys in that thing for some reason-Hog