"J" wrote in :

"Jim Willemin" wrote in message
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My local sources include both Lowes, HD, a couple
of mom-and-pop hardware stores and a local lumber yard - i.e.
contractor stores, no fine woodworking stores.

If you have a PC, and you apparently do, you have access to a
multitude of on-line fine woodworking stores.

j



Yes, true, and I order stuff from them when I really can't get it locally
(e.g. ply-groove dado router bits). However, I sorta want to get started
by tomorrow. I also wanted to get the advice of those more experienced
than I in terms of what to get, and I wanted to gently limit the budget
range (if SWMBO found out I had spent $160 on a saw blade, no matter how
wonderful the cut, I'd be in trouble to my eyebrows).

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Jim
"Value nothing but truth, compassion, and love"