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Jack

On 2/18/2016 7:38 PM, wrote:
On Thursday, February 18, 2016 at 12:50:18 PM UTC-6, dpb wrote:

It's far more
useful to go get some work done than it is to wait for the ultimate,
most expensive solution.

Isn't that the truth. I have seen so many (especially hobbyists) paralyze themselves by waiting
for a product that will make up for their lack of skills.

Just as common is a hobbyists buying the first cheap tool they see and
ending up replacing it with one that does the job, paying twice, or
quitting because their tools weren't up to the task. At any rate, the
tool is a helical spiral cutter head. Grizzly makes cheap ones, or you
can splurge and spend a ton on an industrial high dollar one. If you are
hard up for cash, get the grizzly rather than wait for the industrial one.

Sometimes it isn't even a more expensivesolution, just the simple promise that a new tool is
coming out. With so many solutions out therefor almost any woodworking challenge, unless you
spot a tool that will be a backbone of yourconstruction technique there isn't much of a
reason to wait on a new product.

In this case, it's not waiting for a new product, spiral cutter heads
have been around a long time.

This is even more true when you stop and consider how many actual hours of usage said tool will
face in a year's worth of work. To me it is almost always better to find an immediate solution and
get to work on the product.

Often true, but in a planer/jointer, if buying one, you probably will be
using it a lot for many years. Much better to save up a few dollars and
buy one that does the job really well than buy a so-so one that you will
be stuck with for 40 years. If you are not going to use it long enough,
or often enough to justify the extra cost, you probably should re-think
buying it to begin with. Jointers and planers are not the first tool
woodworkers (particularly hobbyist) buy.

My recommendation is not to go Harbor Freight on this purchase, this is
not a throwaway purchase like a HF air stapler, and no need to sell the
wife and kids and go Festool, but at least go spiral, you will be happy
you did.

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Jack
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