Two months in to my new addiction
Posted: Tue Oct 15, 2013 12:31 am
OK guys i hope you don"t mind me sharing but I had to tell someone that could appreciate my situation. To start off I have always wanted a shopsmith every time I saw one growing up I always thought that would be the way to get started in woodworking> I am a novice to say the least that said I have been building things all my life. I have always been the son, nephew, cousin that if you needed something made or fixed I got the call, Im sure many of you are the same way. a couple months ago I finally decided I was gonna do it so I started watching craigslist and I found a 500 with a bandsaw in my town so bought it and its in good shape but it was missing a lot of parts. while looking for parts I found an almost unused model 505 that had everything ( I thought) I was looking for and I picked it up for a song. After doing my research I realized I wanted at least the 510 table system so a couple weeks ago I found a 510 that the guy bought several years ago used it a couple times and stored it under a tarp. while i am there he said that he had something that went with it and pointed to a box. i was happy to find out it was a DC3300 still in the box never assembled. After some back and forth we settled on a price of 470.00 for all of it. The reason I am saying all this is to ask if you guys have been in this situation where its almost cheaper to buy another system than buying parts. Oh and when I got the last one home a made it into a shorty and love it. Its very handy to have the full size one to work on and the shorty for sanding and drilling. I included some pics I hope you dont mind.
