I’m finding it refreshing to just put up ideas kwithout it becoming a battle of visions.
I enjoyed those early battles over the windows, shutter etc… And they always ended well.
Just doesn’t seem to be heading towards satisfying solutions anymore
There were far fewer of us back then.
Consensus is easy to achieve with small numbers but gets more difficult at a geometric rate as numbers grow.
agreed
Hard to say a table saw is better than a plunge saw with guide as they are clearly different tools.
Maybe we should say what kind of cuts people want to make in the shop? The wants and needs rather than the hows?
On site I saw a chippie make fitted wardrobes using only a Festool plunge saw with guide rail and a router. Perfect straight cuts ready to glue and paint. And able to work on 8x4 sheets of MDF on his own.
But ot can’t cut the lid of a box . Or do a box joint or clean up a wainey edge.
The festool plunge saw is an excellent site tool and rely good at chopping up sheat meterals .
But cutting up sheats is just one of the many things a table saw can do.
The only thing a plunge saw is better at is portability wich is important on site ,but it just means someone can nick it in our aplicaion
A plunge saw with guide rail can do what a table saw does and be packed away afterwards. Plus you can cut thin sheets with it, say 3mm thick (maybe you can do that with a table saw, I’m not sure?)
Benefit of a table saw is that all the mess stays in one place and you can hook it up to extraction.
One of those saws like they have in B&Q for cutting sheet materials would be amazing and they don’t take up much floor space. I wonder how much they cost?
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You can hook up a plunge/circular saw to extraction.
A plunge saw can do one of the many things a table saw can do. , probably at a lower acurusy . In my opinion it is not a substitute.
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Beautiful tool. Price to match O_O
First example i found , didn’t look at price there are second hand and cheaper ones available
Would definitely save a lot of space compared to the separates. I’ll add a line in the brief.
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Lets put in another Space Hive for a Wood Workshop of tools.
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For what it’s worth there is already a thread called “Woodworking Tools” where tools already in the space and a wishlist of “tools we would like” are described. But no one’s added to it for almost 2 months.
I think a combi machine would be poor value. No one would ever use the spindle moulder function of the combi (plus remember the expense of the bits) and, if saw, planing & thicknessing functions are all combined in one machine, that pretty much means that only one person could make use of the dusty area at one time.
If buying separately, a very good table saw is well under £1000 (more like £700). I agree that a table saw is way more versatile and useful than a plunge saw. A planer (aka jointer) and thicknesser can also be bought for about £800 as a combined machine. Planer/thicknesser can be mounted on a wheeled base and tucked against the wall when not in use.
I think we should look at getting a saw with a carriage on the left side built in.
That was the kind of thing I was thinking.