Just because in the long run you'd have been better off financially
buying a more expensive tool at the start doesn't mean you're better
off. What about everything you learned and accomplished with the
cheaper tool that you could afford at the time? The cheaper tool
sitting in your shop is worth a lot more to you than the expensive one
sitting at the dealer.


Amen brother.


I have a $90 Ryobi 9" band saw that was all I could afford to get at
the time two years ago. I've sold enough stuff that was made on it to
buy two good 14" saws by now, but so far I've had higher priorities in
tool purchases than upgrading it.

There's adequate and then there is pure guano.

I had a plastic crapsman bandsaw that some well-intentioned soul bought for
me as a gift. *That* was truly a POS and landed in the trash can after the
2nd attempted use.

I think most of us have had one or two of those at one time or another.