Re: Where to Buy Woodworking Tools?
Hi Gregg. I just found your post. I'm curious: where do you buy your tools?
I have a GMC scroll saw and it is ok though I should warn you you'll have to "tune it". I seldom see GMC drill presses nowadays. They seem a notch or two above the bottom tier ones but since I already bought a vintage drill press a few years earlier I've not been really interested in them.
This is another place us hobby woodworkers can get tools from: closed down sash or furniture factories. My drill press came from one I found in the Buy and Sell, maybe in 2003 or 2004. I paid P3,500 then which was about the cost of a table top model at the time. I am very happy with it because it is SOLID - and that's no exaggeration.
I too have had my eye out for a rotary tool. So far I only have tool bits but no tool - strange. To date, I just use my drills though I'm sure a tool would in most cases be better.
One other question: Where do you get your router bits? I myself have been buying them aboard. Usually, I buy sets because the cost is a lot less per piece though I have to admit I maybe use at most 50% of them. Still the P500 up price of local bits is rather steep in my opinion.
Hey would you be interested in a Ryobi thickness planer? I have 3, maybe 4, extras. These do not come with the blade setup tool but it would not be hard for a handy person to make one. Also I think the cranks to adjust the planing thickness are missing. PM me if you'd be interested.
Re: Where to Buy Woodworking Tools?
@ Innc63:
Sorry for the delayed reply. As to where I buy my tools, I bought it from an acquiantance in QC. Sa kanya ko nabili ung GMC table saw, GMC corded drill (with variable speed and reverse function), my Ozito plunge router. The 10 TC router bits that I am now using was packaged with the router.
Woodworking for me is just a weekend hobby before,but now, hinahanap-hanap ng katawan ko ang magbutingting. I enjoy the noise/s being made by my power tools.
Yeah I am interested with your thickness planer but how much will it cost me? Tsaka gusto ko kasi gagamitin ko na lang eh. I am more inclined to buy a GMC scroll saw para sa paggawa ko ng mga templates na iro-router ko. The GMC table saw's price is a bit high for me kaya hindi ko na kinuha.
Re: Where to Buy Woodworking Tools?
I know exactly how you feel.
For a table saw, just make one using a portable saw. My table saw is 12", again from a closed down sash factory, so it again SOLID ... maybe too solid. Now 12" is good to have but usually you'll be cutting stock 2" thick or less so a 7-1/4 saw can be more practical. Whatever the size, a table saw is really convenient. I'd recommend making, or having one, to any woodworker. Just make sure your table saw is real sturdy and that safety is given due attention.
As for the thickness planer, I can let you have one of them for P4,500. I'll even make you a blade setting jig and a handle. You'll have to give me a weekend though to make them, and you'll have to pick these up at my house in Cainta.
