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Yandles had some a while ago about that size - Rob

When I had my table saw(s) I didn't find them particularly versatile and everything I could do on a table saw I could (and still can do) on my bandsaw(s) and a lot more besides (say, deep cutting for veneers, turning round bowl blanks etc). If the tablesaw user is prepared to remove the riving...

Not a scoobies! I buy my pine dirt cheap from In-Excess just down the road from me. They have a largish covered shed where they throw all sorts of left overs bought from who knows where. It literally contains all sorts pine; some excellent (which I trawl for) some more or less passable and some...

Just been out to the 'shop and picked board of pine at random: This is the sort of stuff you ought to be looking for. It may be the oldest, muckiest bit of pine in the yard but it should be virtually knot free and have tight growth rings (which means relatively slow growth). I bought this...

Moi, personally, I would kick that pine stuff you're using at the moment into the long grass, jump in the motor and go and find some decent stuff. Pine is awkward because it's so soft, but working with good quality pine is a revelation. Night n'day! - Rob

If that's the best pine that you can find to work with, sorry, but you're on a hiding to nothing with it. There's much bettter quality pine out there but you gota go and look for it - Rob

Agreed, the track saw is a brilliant bit of kit, but it's more of a precision tool and best suited to board material that's dead flat. If the track were to be clamped to a plank of rough sawn timber which probably won't be flat and true, it's going to come to grief quite smartly - Rob

As I say, it was a few years ago but the boards in question were enormous and way too heavy to lift up onto a table saw - Rob

I just helped earlier last week to take down a Walnut tree but there's no way I'm digging up the stump by hand! - Rob

If I recollect some were maybe 4m x 500mm x 50mm thick; really too heavy manhandle comfortably off the floor - Rob

I should have added that when I worked in the trade as a pro maker, the way I illustrated was more or less how we used to convert very large boards of say, Euro oak which were just too damn heavy to get anywhere near a tablesaw. They were put on battens on the floor and then sliced up with a...

See above and please read wot I writ :D If you care to have a swift peek at the 'Workshop Projects' in my Sig Block below, all of those projects were made without recourse to a table saw. In a small hobbyist workshop, you don't need one. I rest my case m'lud :D - Rob

They're also expensive and they take up a lot of room in a small workshop, even more when you add extension tables! Say again, for this particular operation, you don't need a table saw. A circular saw and two G cramps is all that's required...end of :D. That 'faffy' set-up took me all of five...

Nope, you don't need a 'line'; the edge of the known straight edge determines where the cut will be. All you need to do is to keep the circular saw pressed against the known straight edge (a chunk of 15 mdf is pretty good) and as you go along just make sure the cord doesn't foul the end of the...

How 'accurate' to need accurate to be? If you want to cross cut to a tolerance of 0.1mm then you need a Felder or similar. If you want to chop off hardwood to length so it's square and reasonably accurate, all you actually need is a cross-cut T square and a hand held circular saw...and it is...

As Custard has mentioned above, a bandsaw and thicknesser or even a p/t if you've got space, will remove all the heavy work from preparing timber. I generally leave pieces slightly oversize and sneak up to the finished dimension in small steps which means you can then see how the wood's behaving...

In a small shop for a predominantly hand tool woodworker, a small bandsaw IMO would be the most useful where deepish cuts and curves can be produced with ease. It also has a much smaller footprint than a tablesaw but I'd advise to get hold of a reasonable quality one; plenty out there - Rob

Yep, fantastic stuff. I use it for just about everything (inc exterior work, but not boat building or similar) but you're paying over the odds for it; I can buy it locally for less than a fiver - Rob

I've got a big Disston rip saw which I very occasionally use. Most of the time it's a bandsaw and for rough cutting big planks into boards which mostly entails ripping off the sap, I use a hand held circular saw. IMO small hobby table saws just don't cut the mustard and take up too much space in...

I got mine from Toolovation who import from the US - Rob