Thread: Sliding compund mitre or circular saw with a jig?

Oh boy, oh boy, will we ever see the end of this? It is another chapter of a religious war, the "Cheap is good enough"s towards the "You spend less by paying more"s.

The bottom line, and I challenge anybody to a debate on it, is:

Establish your needs first. Buy what fulfils your needs.

If in time your needs change, or your assessment of your needs change, repeat the process.

Jonathan, this forum is an excellent way to obtain help for guiding you in the process. But it is no good to ask is A better than B. It is necessary to ask, as you in a way did: I need to do X, will the cheaper between A and B, the dearer or neither be able to do X?
Groggy's first post is an example of what I'm talking about. Excellent to tell you what does what, immediately got heckles when ranking brands.

Cheers

You can have my GMC 71/4 inch Circ saw used twice. That might tell you something..(!)

PM me if interested.

Have

Went and spent my Father's day voucher on a Bosch 7 1/4 circular saw. Makita, DeWalt and others were getting too expensive for me, but I decided I didn't want to go for the really cheap ones. Looked closely at a B&D and Ryobi, both a bit cheaper than the Bosch. But I get the impression the Bosch is a bit better quality. I also came with a 40T blade and is considerably lighter which I think my right arm will appreciate.

I now also have a bit of cash left for a couple of cheap tools. There may be a GMC router or sander in my future.

Thanks again for all the help. Now to start attacking some of those projects I have in the pipeline.

jonathan

Originally Posted by Groggy

A more complete list would read: Ozito, Harbor Freight, other no-name brands, GMC, Ryobi, DeWalt. Makita, Bosch, Milwaukee, Hitachi, Festool Kapex.

I didn't realize that you blokes had the superb quality of Harbor Freight available! Considering Harbor Freight, that Ozito must really be something!

I'm with Eli on this one.

A good tradesman never blames his tools. But you never see a good tradesman with crook tools.

Colin Howkins
Graceville Qld

Originally Posted by rrich

I didn't realize that you blokes had the superb quality of Harbor Freight available! Considering Harbor Freight, that Ozito must really be something!

We don't have HF, but as I am familiar with them I dropped the name as a reference point for you. I think we can mail order HF though.

I'm thinking that if we did buy HF tools, they'd go out in the proverbial "blaze of glory".

Something tells me 240V into a 120V tool will significantly shorten the lifetime, even Ozito would last a little longer than that