Somewhere on Al Gore's internet there must be a good listing of "what tools and gear to buy for the best balance of versatility, space efficiency, and low cost to set up a small hobby woodshop"
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seems like the biggest thing is probably a tablesaw, if I have a decent tablesaw and maybe a benchtop planer, a drill/driver, a jigsaw, and a set of decent hand tools I'll be all right
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woodworker friends please feel free to weigh in on relative priority (note that this is all hypothetical and will depend on me actually getting my basement storage space cleared out, i.e. probably will not happen, but I think it's ~150sf of space)
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Fwiw I use the chop saw more than the table saw, but that may just be that I mostly am doing light construction.
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lot to be said for a chop saw for sure, though I do already have a circ saw, which can substitute for many of the non-compound-angle uses.
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I'm not a woodworker but I am a fan of woodworking! What are you hoping to do/make? I have no advice, I'm just curious
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My current project is a guitar amp cabinet for a 10" speaker, with a removable shelf so the amplifier circuit can be swapped outpic.twitter.com/coJiYxsyl2
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I'm working with a circular saw, job site table saw, a radial arm saw, a cordless drill/driver set, and a kreg pocket hole jig. Recently added an oscillating saw. That's let me build a number of furniture items (bed, dresser, benches, etc) as well as re-framing a room.
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Everything the table and radial saws can do, the circular saw can technically do, but it's so much faster and more accurate/repeatable with those.
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