How disappointing it was when my wife told me it was in a cardboard box rather than on a plywood pallet like somebody else on here mentioned. Thought I would have scrap ply to play with. However, when I opened the box it was clear that it was mounted on a lump of plywood! :lol:
Unboxing to all of about 3 minutes, most of which was spent catching the packing material. A quick read of the manual and then off to the room I'm thinking of using it in. Still attached to the plywood, I just placed it on a table and plugged it in. Then I unplugged it while I learned how to fit the blade. That took about 3 minutes first time but subsequent attempts only took just over a minute to completely swap the blade. It's amazingly easy to do, and no tools needed. The trickiest bit was working out which way up and round the blade need to be and how best to hold it. I adjusted the tension to what I thought sounded right. Whether it is or not, I'm not sure, but it's not broken yet and seems to cut very cleanly so it can't be far out. Anyway, plugged it in an switched on and thought it wasn't working as it has a soft start, but then it was away. It's very quiet and at the slow speed there's zero vibration. It remains vibration free until it's about one third speed, so I can't wait to build a more solid table to bolt it to. My first attempts at using it surprised me, I managed to keep to a wiggly line reasonably well and did a few sharp corners, and I cut a little heart shaped freehand jigsaw with a smaller heart in the middle, all in the scrap plywood that the saw was attached to.
First impressions, great new toy, I'm looking forward to learning how to use it properly.
I'm half way through making something like that Cordy, wife wants a shoerack in a similar design.
Chris
