On Sat, 20 Dec 2003 16:16:46 -0500, Silvan
wrote:

A complete wood shop for under $500?

I'll do you one for $100. Go read Mike Abbott's "Green Woodworking"
and you can tool up to make chairs with little more than an axe, a
turning chisel and a couple of drawknives.

Of course, you'll be entirely stumped trying to make a birdbox out of
two scraps of plywood, but specialisation is the cost of the low
entry-cost approach.

There's also an excellent book by the Intermediate Technology people
on how to teach woodworking in Africa, by teaching your class to make
their own hand tools from wood and truck leafsprings.
--
Smert' spamionam