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Its more likely the price bump is because of the fees involved in dealing with paypal and ebay, but yes, the discount sometimes doesn;t end up being worth anything compared to their website. With that said, a Festool TS55 561553 is £389 on their website but only £338 on ebay with that code...

Indeed. The reality is that I can't afford £3300 just for a table saw. So my only options are lower down that bracket where you're trying to pick something thats not tat. My desire to support British tool makers is irrelevant in that scenario. For £3500 I could get a Fusion 3 saw and a C Flux 1...

Oh of course in those cases yes a saving is made. I just don't think you'd see the costs come down as far as people would like to see it!

I did have a GTS10J until I sold it at some time last year (times were tough and I didn't use it often as I didn't really have space to keep it set up). I have to say it was a nice saw but I did have issues getting the fence to lock parralel every time. It may have been how I operated it coupled...

Would it really be that much cheaper though? Even if that saw was only £1500 there is a limited amount of people they can sell it to so at some point there is a floor in the sale price as there is a ceiling in amount you can sell at any price at all. A £500 saw in 1990 should now be about...

Exactly! I imagine a lot of what I do in the next year will be 'shop stuff as I've moving into an area more than twice the size I have right now, and Workshop 1.0 has basically no storage. I have a handtool bench and a mft assembly bench and my tools largly sit ontop of one or the other. It's...

For framing my workshop it was a mix of cross cuts to length, and then all the cuts for rafter feet and birdsmouths. A chop/mitresaw is fine for some of those but a ballache for others. A circular saw can do them all easily. Consider, to make one 3m rafter from one 3.6m length of 150mmx50mm...

Yeah, the fact that the circular saw is already at depth before you cut means you only need to push it forward. A plunge saw needs to be plunged down and forward which is why they are so great on rails to help eliminate the need to try and focus on both. I wouldn't have tried to use my titan...

With regard to the point of buying quality, you can still buy it. But it costs far more that most are willing to pay. If you want a high quality washing machine you spend £600 minimum on a Miele that's built to last in Germany and uses things like cast iron for counterweights rather than...

Its more likely that its just becase so much stuff is harder to get hold of at the moment. Demand rises as there is shortfall of supply and so prices rise with it. It's crappy for the customer, but sensible business practise. If you've no stock to sell, what little you have you need to make...

If you're going down the nice tracksaw route, I got my TS55 just a month ago from PowerToolMate for £400. That included the 1400mm rail. It's currently £407 but out of stock. https://www.powertoolmate.co.uk/Products/0040000c0004/EB%252FFES561583 The cheapest I saw when looking around...

Oh I agree in that respect. Would also depend on age and ability to add to that collection mind. If mum and dad already have the tools, you can give some nice chisels as they can still be used effectively with the other family tools. If mum and dad don't have much in that regard, a lovely set...

Having used my bosch 190 (£102 new) corded for making my workshop, easily the most use it's had, go cordless. It was just a pain skipping over the cord going from one end of a rafter to the other nearly 30 times. If it's used in an environment where you need to use a vac to extract from it then...

The dewalt 745 goes for between 300 and 400 used and is always talked well of. I've never used one myself mind. One ends on ebay in about 19 hours but no idea if it's near you.

We sure it wasn't marked down to shift stock or something?

Remember that it might not be as easy or competitive to get an energy supplier for 3 phase, apparently. I literally don't know if that's true just something I've heard. While actual 3 phase would be nice to remove the hassle, many are quoted much more to install it, I've seen people say they...

Ha. Its actually perfect despite looking overkill. If anything I'll actually add 2 more at either end! No reason other than not really needed and it didn't come up in the planning stages. Mike and others have rarely bothered when they built theirs.

I bought the Dewalt battery one for making my workshop. Probably only fired 4500 nails with it but its been great. Frankly now that I'm done with it it'll get sold on as we have no use for it.

Ooh that was an expensive vfd! Post a pic of the motor terminals and someone can help you configure for delta and save you a bit more. Marius Hornberger just did a video where he added. A VFD to his homemade bandsaw, key upsides for that job were variable speed (for cutting metals or plastics...

For reasons known only to Mystic Meg, I can no longer edit my OP and Title to reflect progress. Never mind. Despite the horrendous non stop rain, the barge boards are done. I basically now need to do the guttering and paint the door (which in itself actually involves a few extra steps)...