 2020 small workshop tour part two my cheap tools and my hand tools oh my woodworkers Paul Carson here small workshop guy recently I released a 2020 shop tour video and in that tour I didn't have time to discuss any of my tools and I thought some people might be interested in what I'm using there's a theory out there it says buy once cry once I think that's a fallacious theory if you're well set financially and you're planning on doing something as a profession then I think yes you can go ahead and make an investment in the nicest tool just make sure you have a really good business plan and that you are in fact gonna make enough money to pay that off but if you're a DIY dad got family got responsibilities got kids you got to educate you haven't you're a beginner you haven't really worked out your style yet then I think it's a mistake to go buy a bunch of expensive tools what happens if I load up my whole workshop with really expensive power tools and then I decide what I like to do the most is work with my hands with chisels and bench planes and be a Paul sellers well then I've got a lot of the expensive equipment I didn't really use plus you don't know which things you really need are you're going to be a router table expert and use that heavily is that your table saw you know do you do it is a drill press critical to you do you have to have a top-notch band saw you'll develop that kind of information over time as you start building things and decide what you like to build if you're going to turn pens on a lathe that's a whole different set of equipment than if you're going to build beds so anyway that's my point I think I spent I spent for my bandsaw my drill press my thickness planer my sanding belt my air filtration system my sharpening grinder for slow-speed grinder similar to the Tormac and my 8 inch cheap jointer I spent about $2,000 and I could easily have spent $10,000 now I am going to replace some things but that's okay there's a market for used tools especially inexpensive ones not much of a market you'll get you know 30 40 cents on a dollar if you're lucky with a little effort if you hold out long enough just don't take that first bargain offer so anyway you can sell tools and upgrade them just figure out what you need first that's my theory so I am not a buy once cry once advocate let's get on with the tool tour rolled out here in a driveway I've got my pop-up workbench that is a set of saw stallions which are two saw horses made out of three-quarter inch plywood and they all have match fit dovetail grooves everywhere in those saw horses and then there is a top for those and a side panel to make it into a pop-up workbench when you don't need it to be up and running as a workbench or as your saw horses then it collapses into a footprint like this got it on a little cart and it just rolls into the corner of the garage all right now I know today generation all want really really quick everything so I'll try not to talk in my southern accent and I'll try not to dawdle so here we go my first and most prized power tool is my sawstop PCS 30 1.75 horsepower I'll try to give you my rating of my different tools from scale of one to ten one to ten in relationship to a DIY relatively novice woodworker of only several years of experience not a professional cabinet maker and not a contractor and so that's me DIY several years of experience just having fun in my workshop as a hobby so from a scale of one to ten my this one is a 10 or a 12 or something like that I really really think it's important to have that safety feature on there which is the break I'd rather pay $180 replace the break and replace the blade than I'd like to then spend $180,000 replacing my thumb and fingers as a DIY guy I've got quite a number of when products I think this when bandsaw I believe cost me under $300 I went to a video wants to sit top ten bandsaws and then it came up and listed this one at number one at the end after it listed all the 14 and 17 inches so this is just a 10 inch bandsaw it has met my needs it's not I haven't used it for resawing at all I have a little bit of problem with it tracking but I'm generally just trying to do kind of a rough cut and then I'll sand things down it is a two-speed for a DIY guy I would give this about a five but for $290 that kind of raises the scale doesn't it then I have a when drill press very happy with that I haven't found any restrictions where it wouldn't work for me I'm sure professionals have some problems with inexpensive tools like this again under $300 so I give this you know a good eight or nine it meets all of my needs in this workshop let's continue with the when products I have a when air filtration system probably you could spend a few more dollars and get one that's got more CFM but this one works for me and it's got a remote so I just put that on a Velcro by the door so I don't lose it as far as air filtration meets my needs as far as I know so I'm going to give it a 10 then I have a when thickness planar little 12 12 and a half inch six inch up and down capacity but most of them have a six inch capacity I forget what I paid for it but somewhere under $300 I think and I don't get any snipe on it if you kind of support the work piece as you're putting it in angling it down a little bit and support the work piece when it's coming out I really don't get snipe works perfectly good I give it you know a six or seven for my needs I'm going to replace it with a DeWalt thickness planar with a helical heads I don't know why I just everybody got one so I gotta have one right all right I have a when belt sander that was alright the only trouble I had was holding the disc platform at 90 degrees but after I put in a star washer in this little bitty minuscule knob to hold it at the whatever degrees it worked great so I just needed more friction you know works fine for what it is as long as you know what it is and that's just a small belt sander yeah what I like to have a lot more big stuff you bet but I don't have room alright I got a little slow speed grinder when I do happen to drop my chisels and need to kind of don't want to do all the work by hand to get them back to a starting point then I just use this one it's a little knockoff I think it's $120 or something you can spend $450 or $700 for your Tormach if you want to but if you're a DIYer you probably just need one of the little when knockoff so I give that for what it's needed for I give that a good seven or eight and I just went ahead and bought some accessories that you would normally buy for a Tormach in order to hold the blades so hey get your knock off and then buy your really good quality accessories alright I don't think I have any other when tools let me next go talk about my power magic bench top mortising machine if I were to do it again I would not get this I've got two videos one about how to set this up and one about tricks and techniques for use it but the problem is when you want to cut some quick mortises and you've got it it want them to be very precise this is a cumbersome machine for trying to get those mortising chisels right on your line and do a really nice fit if you're gonna do a lot of blind mortises that's fine this is a okay machine but I would just say don't spend the money on this you know get better tools of some other type and then use your drill press or your hand drill to hog out your mortises or use your plunge router if they're just small half inch or three-quarter inch mortises and just go that way and then if you're a square off your corners really all this is doing is squaring your corners for you and it's a lot of overhead for that purpose so I would I would give that for what I want to do I would give that you know like a two as far as a quality of the machine I would certainly give it a eight or nine alright make sure when you get your power tools that you use the stands that you've got them on put a piece of plywood across all of the struts I have added these Bora portable bases to all of my well to several of my power tools and then I just put plywood across the bottom plywood across the middle and then that gives me kind of a place to store other stuff what haven't we covered well let's see as far as bigger power tools I have a inexpensive Ryobi probably the first thing I bought miter saw compound miter saw goes all directions it's a sliding one from with the slide as you need to have room in the back so to use it I actually have to pull it out a little bit and then use it I'm gonna replace that with a Bosch one that's got one of those I forget what they call those arms but the arms that don't need any room behind the saw I have that on a thing I really like it's a Bora port of mate a miter saw station the wings fold up so if I wanted to get a support of my workpiece this wing over here on the right folds up and or comes up and then a little platform comes up to give me a level bed and of course I can do the wing on the other side as well so that that allows me not to build a great big old dedicated miter station in my small one-car garage I haven't to date used a router table a lot but I got this one from Ryobi I thought gee I got a Robe Ryobi router that was my first one in there and I don't like that one that one's hard to adjust but I've got it in here dedicated with a round over bit and some other stuff I'm gonna build a custom cabinet for that take off these metal legs and then have it where the cabinet the top of the cabinet will come up so I get easy access so that's a future plan for me as far as a an oscillating spindle sander I've got one from Triton that I think when puts out a copper bowl my circular saw corded is a Milwaukee seven and a quarter inch I think it is and my corded powerful big drill is a DeWalt I like both of those of course they're corded but I hardly ever am working on a job site because I don't work so I don't have a job site I just have my garage my desk collection is a shop fox it's a kind of underpowered I've got the Rockler hoses on it I've got a Rockler cyclone top on there on top of a 32 gallon barrel and so that cyclone top gets 99.9% of the chips and I hardly ever have to empty the bag it's pretty much dedicated to the table saw but I do have a supplemental hose here that I can quickly hook up to stretch over to the thickness planer when I'm using that some of the smaller power hand tools I've got the I've got the shaper origin handheld portable cnc router that's fairly new acquisition for me very very expensive mine cost me with warranty and sales tax and delivery and everything $3,425 but who's counting and then I have the DS 500 Festool Domino love that router wise let's I had the Ryobi originally that's in the router table a little trim router this is a rigid trim router so just kind of a permanent you know round over bit in there I've got a Bosch Colt little handheld router it's also got a plunge base and also the edge guide will work for that I kind of decided that I wanted a half inch collet and obviously none of those do it so I upgraded to a Bosch I think it's called MRC meaning it's got the package that I bought with it which included the the plunge base and then I also have the edge guide and actually at one point I thought I had a bit stuck in there permanently and I had to get something done and so you know hurry I bought a re refurbished Bosch and got that delivered from Amazon in a couple days and then lo and behold I got the bit out so now I have two of them identical I will probably put one of them in my router table since I'm so dissatisfied with my Ryobi router that is in that table one thing that I would do differently when it comes to like a compressor and I'm not into any what ever you call it HVLC spraying or whatever so I have this little porter cable pancake compressor and then I have the pneumatic tools that go with that the various size brad nailers and staplers what I would do if I were to go back again is I wouldn't spend any money on those things and I wouldn't have the pancake compressor I would instead and I and I wouldn't do the 12 volt Milwaukee drill driver and those tools what I would do is get either the the Milwaukee set of 18 volt higher quality brushless you know drill driver and and and then I would start buying like the cordless circular saw from the same manufacturer I think you pick a platform the two favorites I like are Milwaukee and DeWalt so I would pick a platform and then have my drill driver my reciprocating saw you know all of my different tools on that same platform using those same batteries and one of those items would be the stapler or the brad nailer just battery operated all right along the top up there as I said I got my pneumatic tools I've got a Ryobi jigsaw I have my 12 volt Milwaukee drill driver an impact driver and then I have some old Ryobi's that I probably sell in a garage sale that I think is all of my larger power tools and again the ones I'm gonna replace is probably the bandsaw with a 14 or 17 inch bandsaw and probably the thickness planer and I may sell the mortising machine when it comes to tools on my handwall one of the most important ones is the fire extinguisher but just a whole variety of measuring devices I do like the steric combination squares I got both the six inch and the 12 inch various measuring devices and stuff when it comes to my bench planes the far left one here is just an old Stanley number five contractor level don't use it for anything and then I've got a wood river number seven I've got a Lee Nielsen number 62 low angle plane and then I've got the I've got a sweetheart Stanley sweetheart but since I got a Lee Nelson number four I took my Stanley sweetheart number four and I rounded over the blade so it is now what you would call a scrub plane and then I really really love my Lee Nielsen number four and then I've got a Lee Nielsen router plane and then I have the Lee Nielsen little block plane so those are my bench planes some of the typical Japanese saws my chisels are my two favorite ones here are in the middle those are my two Veritas half inch and one inch but then I have a whole set of Narex you know and I think there's one two three four five six of them came in a set for like eighty five dollars so they're obviously they're not the most expensive in the world by myself a set of mortising chisels I only needed one I think I didn't need a whole set little couple angular chisels and then a garbage you know blue handle there now inch and a half that I use for stuff my mallets I've got a brand new mallet from Nathan Foutt back in Pennsylvania he made that for me goes along with my samurai carpenter workbench style-wise and I think that's probably all I talk about there I'm not going to get in discussion of clamps clamps or clamps or clamps these heavy-duty DeWalt bar clamps are amongst my favorite and then I've got more DeWalt bar clamps too that are a little less sturdy or less power University of Kansas Jayhawk that's where I went from kindergarten through graduate school left that and went there on a golf scholarship left there in 1968 to work for IBM and San Francisco started my own company in 1975 turned that over to my sons in 2014 and been in my workshop ever since my security camera is from Amazon it's actually an Amazon company called Blink BLINK really cool you get a little controller device and then you can buy add-on cameras well there's the big picture I still got teenagers in the house so I got a bike up there I do some filming and obviously you can see I'm using a little iPhone for this film with a with a gimbal they call it gimbal to keep that a little bit smoother when I pan around but I got a bunch of bars across the top of my workshop so that I can hang tripods and stuff so it starts to look a little kluji but that's all right the question is can you get any work done all right well that's my tool tour got any questions let me know got any comments about any of these tools to share with my handful of subscribers leave a comment have a good day stay out of the hospital and be safe in your workshop a little trim router let me try that again a little trim router oh well maybe I can't say that word