My next saw?

Kevin,

These are two great machines and would erve you well. MOst guys would give their left one for a 20 inch planer like that. As for hte table saw, the set up makes solo cutting of a large sheet of plywood easy and safe to do.

I could not guess on the value, but you can find the price of both new on line or at woodcraft. He may sell inexpensively since hte shipping cot to get it to California is not cheap.

-- making sawdust....

I do not know what a fair price would be off hand, but WOW! It would be worth your while to check out prices of this stuff new and make an offer.

-- Berta in NC

I would say a lot depends on whether or not you plan to make an offer on the house. Usually, there is several thousand dollars of negotiating room in the price of a house anyway. I would just make my offer contingent on him leaving the tools. If it’s a fair offer for the house, he’ll probably jump at it.

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

A friend of mine owns a few Woodcraft stores, and when I recently upgraded my tablesaw, I told him what I was trying to get for the old one. He said that selling at 1/2 the new price is very reasonable. So, what I might do is see what the new price is and offer 1/2 or a little less. Either one of those pieces of equipment would be a true gloat at half price, IMHO.

-- Don, San Antonio, TX

Safetyboy, Even if you don’t need that large of equipment, you will never regret it once you have it. You should recoup most of the cost you paid if you ever want to sell it someday if you only pay half price.

-- Rusty

As mentioned earlier, once dismantling/shipping costs are added, you might get a very reasonable price.

Both pieces are good to have around, and the table-saw setup is very nice indeed.

I wish you luck on the offer and the equipment.

-- Making scrap with zen-like precision - Woodbutchery

Half price or less sounds good they’re both great toools try to get both. Did he leave any other tools behind?

-- Only the Shadow knows....................

Once you flop a whole sheet of plywood up on that saw you will know what 50” on the right of the blade and a huge outfeed table means.

That is a nice saw. I have the same one without the sliding attachment (mine is left tilt though).

Why did the seller leave all that equipment behind? Maybe he left bait for a woodworker?

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

thats a superb planer, 20in but small footprint, grab it now

These are both good tools don’t be mean. In my view offer him a good price (well over half) not under as suggested ,that seems abit unfair to me.If he thinks your being greedy he may well get annoyed and then you’ld lose out!! my 2 cents please don’t be unfair. Then again with selling houses they way things are I don’t know but seperate the two dont negociate the house down to get free tools thats not right in my book keep them sepertae mu opinion you might not like it but those tools are worth way over half price he’s not a fool please don’t make a foolish offer you’ll just insult the guy.Alistair

-- excuse my typing as I have a form of parkinsons disease

Hello all I’m new here this is my first time posting. My next posst will be a really domb question about a radial arm saw.
Wow that is a nice table saw. I don’t know what state you live in and how far he would have to move the stuff but some people have the money to have all their stuff moved. I use to be a realltor and I would recomend you make a decent offer. Assuming you are making an offer on the house.
Is this wood shop attached to the house?
You should put some thought into this offer. If I’m not mistakken I see a nice Jet Jointer off to the rite and really nice dust collector on the back wall a nice large setup table a couple smaall portable tables. Is that a router table beyond the plainer? Not to mention all the scrap wood. I bet if you look around thereare a lot of other things too. Like what 20 or 30 clamps hanging on the wall.
Like I said I don’t know where you are but an offer well over the asking price could net you a really nice shop.
Not to mention this looks like a wood shop much different than my wood/metal/auto shop all of which are incomplete and vintage lol.
Do you think he wants another left one I’ll trade.

I have a jet table saw and really love it. Dang I love my shop even if it is not perfect :) For christmas I want more room and no columns in the middle of the floor :)

-- "so much to learn and so little time"..

Slow down for just a second. You are only touching on a couple of tools. There’s also a central dust collection system and many more great tools in the background. They are right about offer half. You could get them included in the price of the house like a stove or other kitchen stuff. Make it sound like you are doing this guy a favor. You can also finance the tools with the house.

-- ??? My mistakes heat the house. It's very warm in here. ???

Unknown, that was my thought when I made my original response… negotiate a great shop into the house deal.

In many areas, the housing market is slow right now. Nobody thinks twice about offering a seller less than what he is asking, so what’s the harm of making an offer contingent on the tools staying?

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

As a mortgage guy (used to be), you might be able to negotiate the price of the tools into the price of the house if there is room in the appraisal.

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

As a mortgage guy (used to be), you might be able to negotiate the price of the tools into the price of the house if there is room in the appraisal.

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

I’m not sure you would want to finance the equipment over 15 to 30 years; it would end up costing you more than a new one before it is all over, IMHO.

-- Don, San Antonio, TX

If I finance or not, I still end up paying. Say I pay him $5000 cash for the equipment – then that’s $5000 less I’ll have to put for a downpayment, so I’ll still end up paying interest on that extra $5000 for the term of the loan.

-- -- Kevin in Mentor, Ohio

Make a seperate deal for the saw and planer. As far as equipment goes, it always better to have more capacity than you think you need. You never know.

Besides that, from your picture you look a little young to be buying a house, but that’s just an opinion.