"W. Wells" wrote in message
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I have been in the furniture mfg. business for 35 years and my advise to
anyone who does much woodworking is buy good old equipment rather than the
new cheap stuff from China. Most of the new stuff is disposable and never
gives you good service compared to the old American made equipment.
Woodworking equipment is very inexpensive right now due to so many
American
companies going out of business. You can find good 220 equipment in medium
weight sizes. A good measure to the quality is how much it weighs.

Good advice, but not always practical. If everyone stopped buying new,
there would not be enough used equipment to go around as the hobby grown in
numbers of participants.

I bought my saw new. I could have waited and bought a good used one, but
that wait would have been over two years. Yes, I read the ads every week in
a couple of papers. I'd still be waiting for some other tools.

There is some decent equipment coming out of China today. The junk is
fading away.
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Ed
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