Which tool do you wish you hadn't bought for your workshop?

[John15]

Router and router table. They haven't been used and not likely to be. I should try to sell them.

John

 

[rdesign]

Everything I bought when I was 16 I regretted.
A sheppach 12 inch site table saw... a 12inch sip planner thicknesser. It wasn't that bad just couldn't cope with the 10 foot lumps of ash i threw at it :/ a Rolson 10 inch sliding Compound saw. A Drapper Morticer.

Why did I hate them all. They didn't cut straight they always had to be messed with for a few mins/ hours before use and I hated that I invested my hard earned cash in them....

Slowly I have got rid of the table saw and planer replacing it with quality second hand stuff that cost nearly the same as these pieces of junk new. I am slowly investing in festool as spending good money before wasting it on stuff that isn't fun to use, makes sense to me. I wish I could go back and get those first 6 years of my workshop hell back

 

[Paul200]

Everything I bought when I was 16 I regretted.
A sheppach 12 inch site table saw... a 12inch sip planner thicknesser. It wasn't that bad just couldn't cope with the 10 foot lumps of ash i threw at it :/ a Rolson 10 inch sliding Compound saw. A Drapper Morticer.

Why did I hate them all. They didn't cut straight they always had to be messed with for a few mins/ hours before use and I hated that I invested my hard earned cash in them....

Slowly I have got rid of the table saw and planer replacing it with quality second hand stuff that cost nearly the same as these pieces of junk new. I am slowly investing in festool as spending good money before wasting it on stuff that isn't fun to use, makes sense to me. I wish I could go back and get those first 6 years of my workshop hell back

Nice to hear an end user saying the same thing as I tried to drum into my customers for 20 years I think they thought I was just trying to make them spend more money whereas what I was actually doing was trying to save their money and their temper.

 

[Cordy]

Bought this as router aid
Never use it

 

[Phil Pascoe]

I've been buying tools for nearly 50 years - I can't think of anything at all I regret buying.

 

[yorkshirepudding]

I'm another with a Leigh Jig I've yet to master. I also bought the VRS to go with it. Too much money invested for it to lie idle. I will use it......soon.

 

[RogerP]

Trend dovetail jig ... too much hassle, sold it on and went back to doing them by hand and eye.

 

[Doug B]

Bought this as router aid
Never use it

Funnily enough I was given on of those FOC & would be lost without it for setting up the spindle moulder


I wish I'd not bought the Kell No 3 honing guide could even sell it for £25
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:lol: :lol:

 

[n0legs]

I've been buying tools for nearly 50 years - I can't think of anything at all I regret buying.

Not quite so long for me, but the same here

 

[heimlaga]

-A cheap chineese coping saw. The bowe wasn't stiff enough so the blade could not be held taut. I replaced it with an old coping saw made by Eclipse.
-A green Bosh pad sander. It lasted one day of use before it broke down. Unfortunately the warranty had expired a few days earlier.
-A flimsy Taiwaneese lathe. Yes I CAN turn on it but it makes turning a very unpleasent and awkward task. I will replace it once I can find a better lathe secondhand..... or get around to rebuilding the old completely worn out one that sits on a shelf in the tractor shed.
-Nameless chisels. They are apparently made from mild steel with no hardening what so ever. JUNK!!!!.....I use them for chopping around nails because they cannot possible shatter.
-Chineese cut off discs for the angle grinder. The iron I was cutting became red hot but the cut didn't become any deeper.
-A new Stanley block plane. It found a new purpose as job site plane for the occasional plane stroke on carpentry jobs. Barely good enough for that.
-16 ounce Fiskars hammer. The handle was way too weak and bent almost immidiately.

 

[RossJarvis]

-Chineese cut off discs for the angle grinder. The iron I was cutting became red hot but the cut didn't become any deeper.

I think I just bought a 3 pack of these from Kwik Skrew Fix Save, Titan brand, should be called metal heating discs!

 

[MickCheese]

Woodrat although the like the person who mentioned the Leigh I will get my head around it.

 

[Graham Orm]

Bench morticer for me too, seems to be the main one.

 

[MMUK]

Probably the RAS. It was stood for 6 years in a corner after being used twice before I sold it.