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Hi all.
after posting a new thread "Bt3100K still a good saw?" I was kindly invited for a visit to "Dustless" Rod Kirby's workshop for a chat and some saw buying advice.
I gotta say people, his place is woodworkers Nirvana! I saw so much good stuff and most of it made by Rod himself. It seems that if a job needs to be done more than once, then he's made a jig for it. Man it was so neat and clean you could have brain surgery there :-)
Had coffee and lunch there, met his lovely wife and talked for a good 3 hours.
My general conclusion is that the BT3100 etc is a great saw, but which is killed by the price the local Ryobi people have set on it (rrp $995, street $895). I played with the saw table Rod uses now, and it's great. If only the Ryobi had a price at least vaguely comparable to what was asked for it in the US I'd leap at it. Rod said heaps of great things about it, but the large contractors saws are the same price here, so I guess I'll have to go that way...
Hope I'm still welcome here, even if I belong to the dark side.
cheers
Gary
PS Rod's wife took a photo of us in the workshop, just to prove that it really exists and is not a figment of someones Photoshop imagination :-)
after posting a new thread "Bt3100K still a good saw?" I was kindly invited for a visit to "Dustless" Rod Kirby's workshop for a chat and some saw buying advice.
I gotta say people, his place is woodworkers Nirvana! I saw so much good stuff and most of it made by Rod himself. It seems that if a job needs to be done more than once, then he's made a jig for it. Man it was so neat and clean you could have brain surgery there :-)
Had coffee and lunch there, met his lovely wife and talked for a good 3 hours.
My general conclusion is that the BT3100 etc is a great saw, but which is killed by the price the local Ryobi people have set on it (rrp $995, street $895). I played with the saw table Rod uses now, and it's great. If only the Ryobi had a price at least vaguely comparable to what was asked for it in the US I'd leap at it. Rod said heaps of great things about it, but the large contractors saws are the same price here, so I guess I'll have to go that way...
Hope I'm still welcome here, even if I belong to the dark side.
cheers
Gary
PS Rod's wife took a photo of us in the workshop, just to prove that it really exists and is not a figment of someones Photoshop imagination :-)
Do us a favor. If you post pics of your shed, make a little sawdust to leave so we can see it. We wouldn't want to form a negative opinion of everyone from Oz. 
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