Impressive to say the least!

Roubo would absolutely have approved of that bench! A thing of beauty.

Gorgeous!  Congrats. 

8 hours ago, naamanf said:

A little better, I’ll probably live with it since it’s perfectly function and will remind me what not to screw up. 

Since you screwed this up so much, I recommend you just throw it all away and start over. Just consider this a practice run.

Also, on an unrelated subject, I am doing research on the days peoples’ trash is picked up across Head-Case for a white paper I am writing.  Please send me your address and pick-up day for my studies. 

My workmanship is about 87k levels below the bench, but getting closer to wrapping up the crate. 
 

That looks really good, very professional. I don’t think you give yourself enough credit. 

Thanks, but it is all the picture angles, if you could see the screw ups, you guys would probably ban me from the thread. 

Jeff, if you'd like some decent tutorials, check out The Wood Whisperer on YouTube. He has many varied tutorials for joinery, cabinetry and son on.

Yeah, I watch all those guys.

My issues usually arise with equipment, e.g. I have no jointer so I use a sled on the table saw, table saw sled can only accommodate about a 16” board due to the tiny top on the job site so cannot joint, leading to issues.  

Then don’t get me started on trying to finish a 42x30 crate on plywood sheets on a table in the garage as it is too cold to do anything outside so I could use all the spray equipment piled on a shelf. 

Space and tool limitations are my biggest cryptonite as well.

If I ever win the lottery, I'll have the biggest, Best stocked shop on the West Coast! 

You got those beavers workin' overtime! 

I somehow read that post completely differently 😆

Or did you?

Trying to decide on a dust extractor. Leaning toward a Hilti, seems it beats all the rest with a 20year warranty to boot. Or a Festool CT26. Thoughts?

I'm becoming a pretty big fan of the lime green, but I don't think that there's a bad choice between the two.

If you have other Festool stuff, the ability to stack it all on top of the vac is nice.

I think the Festool Vac is the best thing they make.  No idea about Hilti, are you talking about their construction wet/dry vacs?

I am selling the little sawstop tonight and picking up a PCS tomorrow.  Going to sling up some kind of ceiling harness that I can use to Mission Impossible around the garage to use the different pieces of equipment.

Here is the Hilti

https://www.hilti.com/c/CLS_DUST_MGMT_VACUUM_CLEAN_7125/CLS_VACUUM_CLEANERS_ACCESSORIES_7125/CLS_VACUUM_CLEANERS_7125/r11001070

 

The one nice thing about the Festool is the Bluetooth with the ability to add a button at the end of the hose to turn it on and off. 

You can set the Festool to automatic, plug your tool  into it, then it'll turn on and off with the tool.

12 minutes ago, swt61 said:

You can set the Festool to automatic, plug your tool  into it, then it'll turn on and off with the tool.

Not with battery tools 😉

True.

The Hilti seems nice.

Hilti seems to have the auto filter cleaner which I believe does not come with the HEPA filtered Festool. 

They also mention a BT remote for battery tools but I did not see if that is like the Festool or just a handheld remote. 
 

 

Checking out the Hilti. Seems solid and they do have a Bluetooth module in Europe that is just like the Festool, would just have to order from there or wait for it to come here. Choices, feel like I need to make the right decision when buying something that sucks. 
 

Looks decent.  I think I like the brakes on the Festool better than that system but the gauge for bag fill and stuff would be nice.

Going from the Sawstop Jobsite Pro which just required I pull it out of the box and put the blade on to the new PCS with 20 boxes and having to build the whole thing is quite the adventure.