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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 08:14:01 CDT
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- From: George Brandsberg <GBRANDSB@OZ.UMB.KSU.EDU>
- Organization: KSU Cooperative Extension
- Subject: Re: How do I start with $500?
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- G. Paul Houtz says...
-
- > >|> I plan to setup some equipments to build some bookshelf kind thing
- > >|> for my study room and garage. I am wondering whether I should buy a table
- > >|> saw or radial saw? Or do I really need those fancy equipments?
- > >|> Also if is there brand/model you can recommend? My budget is ~$500.
- > >
-
- My reply:
-
- Take a trip to your local library and browse the book
- stacks in the section for Woodworking and Woodworking
- tools to get enough of a background to know what you
- should buy to do what you want to do.
-
- Obviously, everyone on the WOODWORK list has their own
- bit of advice, but I wouldn't start with a table saw.
- For what you want to do (if it's only to build
- shelves), a circular handsaw may well be satisfactory.
- That way, if you decide you don't really like messing
- around with woodworking, you haven't invested a lot.
-
- Power hand tools--electric drill, circular handsaw,
- sander (disk, belt, orbital), jigsaw or scrollsaw and
- router--enable you to do many things. Be sure to use
- eye and hearing protection.
-
- Best of luck!
-
- --George Brandsberg
-