I am in a daze now. Whattaday!
This morning I headed out to see this guy selling stuff on CL. He had a router table and a Jet 14" BS, among other smaller stuff.
Find out his dad (passed away couple of years ago) was a surgeon with a passion for WW-ing, so obviously collected a bunch of high priced stuff. This guy (son) was unaware of the true value of all the stuff, though he'd done some research on the 'net.
Me, I saw that the table had this Incra jig with a nice table with a cabinet, and overall seemed to be a very good deal, so beat him down by $50 and got the router table with everything in/on it for $350. Getting home, this is the inventory (after surfing the net for each item):
The table is from WoodPeck : the Router Table Ultra Package deal : $612!!!
Lovely build, enclosed router, dust collection, et al.
It has the Woodpecker's Router Lift : $300!!
The router installed is the PC Router 75182 : $380!!
That's some monster router... would have never dreamt of buying it myself...
There's also the base for the above router : 75361 : $93!
And of course a whole set of router bits : the set in the picture is the Mastergrip 36 set (i think Costco sold it for $50 or so). 1/4" shank and not great, but usable.
The old gentleman had added a beautiful 3-drawer cabinet to the table, dunno if he bought it or made it, it's of the finest quality - dunno the price.
In the drawers -
a. Craftsman router 315.25070 : seems to be an old router
b. A Trim router from Chicago Electric / HF : $30
b. An phenolic table insert for the PC router : around $50 iirc.
c. Various router bits - like 2 of Freud's - for 3/4 ply and for 1/2" ply, around a dozen other assorted bits including Incra bits for specialized tasks (i think for dovetails etc) -
d. A Black-Decker 'portable shaper' - looks very like an early trim router or maybe a dremel? (never used one before, havta look it up).
e. A 'spacer fence' (UHMW pieces) from http://www.oak-park.com/
f. Brass measuring bar set from oak-park again
So if you have been counting, all that adds upto almost $1500 worth of stuff... Wowssee!
He was hard-pressed to find manuals for any of that, so i guess the internet should be my friend for that.
Of course, all this is still on my mini-van, waiting for my neighbor to make an appearance to help me put it down...
Only pity is that I could not also snag the bandsaw. He'd have agreed to even $300 for it, and it's a steal even at $400! My problem was twofold : one, even the router table is gonna be a hard-sell to SWMBO, let alone the BS. other was that the Jet weighs almost 200 lbs, a definite heavyweight in my garage (not counting transporting it home).
Anyway, I am not gonna able to sleep tonight... like christmas eve...
This morning I headed out to see this guy selling stuff on CL. He had a router table and a Jet 14" BS, among other smaller stuff.
Find out his dad (passed away couple of years ago) was a surgeon with a passion for WW-ing, so obviously collected a bunch of high priced stuff. This guy (son) was unaware of the true value of all the stuff, though he'd done some research on the 'net.
Me, I saw that the table had this Incra jig with a nice table with a cabinet, and overall seemed to be a very good deal, so beat him down by $50 and got the router table with everything in/on it for $350. Getting home, this is the inventory (after surfing the net for each item):
The table is from WoodPeck : the Router Table Ultra Package deal : $612!!!
Lovely build, enclosed router, dust collection, et al.
It has the Woodpecker's Router Lift : $300!!
The router installed is the PC Router 75182 : $380!!
That's some monster router... would have never dreamt of buying it myself...
There's also the base for the above router : 75361 : $93!
And of course a whole set of router bits : the set in the picture is the Mastergrip 36 set (i think Costco sold it for $50 or so). 1/4" shank and not great, but usable.
The old gentleman had added a beautiful 3-drawer cabinet to the table, dunno if he bought it or made it, it's of the finest quality - dunno the price.
In the drawers -
a. Craftsman router 315.25070 : seems to be an old router
b. A Trim router from Chicago Electric / HF : $30
b. An phenolic table insert for the PC router : around $50 iirc.
c. Various router bits - like 2 of Freud's - for 3/4 ply and for 1/2" ply, around a dozen other assorted bits including Incra bits for specialized tasks (i think for dovetails etc) -
d. A Black-Decker 'portable shaper' - looks very like an early trim router or maybe a dremel? (never used one before, havta look it up).
e. A 'spacer fence' (UHMW pieces) from http://www.oak-park.com/
f. Brass measuring bar set from oak-park again
So if you have been counting, all that adds upto almost $1500 worth of stuff... Wowssee!
He was hard-pressed to find manuals for any of that, so i guess the internet should be my friend for that.
Of course, all this is still on my mini-van, waiting for my neighbor to make an appearance to help me put it down...
Only pity is that I could not also snag the bandsaw. He'd have agreed to even $300 for it, and it's a steal even at $400! My problem was twofold : one, even the router table is gonna be a hard-sell to SWMBO, let alone the BS. other was that the Jet weighs almost 200 lbs, a definite heavyweight in my garage (not counting transporting it home).
Anyway, I am not gonna able to sleep tonight... like christmas eve...
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