This saw has a compound slide, so it can cut material up to 12" wide.  It has a pre-notched miter box, that is easy to setup for angled cuts in things like crown molding.  I replaced the stock blade with a 60-tooth, teflon-coated freud blade.  I had trouble with the coarser blades kicking back on very dry material, or during deep cuts.  I'll tell ya....nothing scares the crap out of me more than a saw kicking back.

It came with this handy, folding stand, so it is easy to tear down and put out of the way when not in-use.  Only thing I would change about this saw is the bed and fence size.  It is tricky to feed a 4x8 sheet of plywood through it nice and straight. I bought a few portable feed-rollers that I place strategically around the saw when cutting long pieces.  Click here for a 30 second video of me cutting some drawer face frames on it.

This is one of my latest tool additions to the shop, and I love it.  My wife is super for getting me this for my birthday!  For a bench-top press it is excellent.  Now that I am getting into metal working, I have just recently ordered a drill-press vise, so I can do both metal and wood on this press.  I also have a mortising attachment for this unit that seems to do quite well for cutting mortise joints.

This planer works very well, considering its small size.  I can buy relatively inexpensive lumber, re-saw it, and put nice faces on it now.  I have used this machine to make a number of excellent projects so-far, including a new work bench.  I also have some video of it hogging off about a 1/16" from a drawer face.  Click here, for the video of the planer in-action! (Windows Media 9.0 Format)

I have made my own PVC ducting system to bring flex-hose to the various tools.  It's mounted up in the rafters of the garage so it is out of the way.

Santa Claus brought this new toy this year.  Now I can do even more to make inexpensive, warped wood, into something that works well for projects.  It is a heavy beast, with a wicked cutting head.  I mounted it to a delta mobile base, so it can be wheeled around.  The mobile base was a little too large, so my first project with the jointer was to make inserts to make it mount snugly into the base.

Every shop needs central, compressed air.  Not every shop (like mine) has room for a big, bulky compressor.  This thing can deliver LOTS of air.  I guess that's why it's called the "extreme" series.   Only problem is, it takes every last ounce of a 20A breaker to get started.  I had to rewire the electrical in the garage with more circuits to be able to keep the auto-start feature enabled, or it would just pop the breaker when it kicked on.