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Cherime
True Blue Farmgirl
1222 Posts
Cherime
Wasilla
Alaska
USA
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 Posted - Aug 12 2010 : 05:48:13 AM
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anyone else out there using stuff like table saws, sliding miter saws and such to revamp furniture or build small projects?
CMF |
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peapicker
True Blue Farmgirl
716 Posts
texas
USA
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Posted - Aug 12 2010 : 05:55:12 AM
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I haven't done any furniture yet, but I have used power tools for other things. I love the tool department at Home Depot or anywhere else. My hubby things its amusing that I can spend so much time window shopping for power tools. I just like any kind of tool actually. We actually have arguments over my tools and his. With the right tools imagination takes shape. I would be interested to hear about your furniture projects..... they sound like fun.
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
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Alee
True Blue Farmgirl
22941 Posts
Alee
Worland
Wy
USA
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BarefootGoatGirl
True Blue Farmgirl
1495 Posts
Corrine
North Carolina
USA
1495 Posts |
Posted - Aug 12 2010 : 07:18:44 AM
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i've never had room for large power tools, but am a huge fan of the dewalt sets. i love the portablity and the have always do what i couldn't do by hand.
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1badmamawolf
True Blue Farmgirl
2199 Posts
Teresa
"Bent Fence Farms"
Ca
USA
2199 Posts |
Posted - Aug 12 2010 : 09:32:09 AM
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Power tools, did someone say POWER TOOLS, I love power tools for Christmas, birthday, just because day, can't live without them,lol...
"Treat the earth well, it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children" |
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KathyC
True Blue Farmgirl
583 Posts
Kathy
Gastonia
NC
USA
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Posted - Aug 12 2010 : 10:26:28 AM
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I love shopping for tools also. I think we always need more. My hubby is teaching me to use the tools but I must admit I am more than a little intimidated with the radial arm saw and the miter saw, but hope to learn to respect and not fear them.
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Heather B
True Blue Farmgirl
562 Posts
Heather
Longmont
Colorado
USA
562 Posts |
Posted - Aug 12 2010 : 1:41:01 PM
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Home Depot,Harbor Frieght and any place with tools is a favorite shopping spot with me and the hubby!We have a good stock of usable tools large and small. we redo furniture, make home renovations and just have a blast making stuff!
I LOVE TOOLS!
Heather
http://homesteadincity.blogspot.com/
http://littlehouseonthebumper.blogspot.com/ (My "glamper" page)
"Only your real friends tell you when your face is dirty"
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melanie47601
True Blue Farmgirl
1949 Posts
Melanie
Boonville
IN
USA
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Posted - Aug 12 2010 : 2:16:38 PM
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My fiance` looks at me like I'm nuts while I'm oogling the tools at Lowes. He thinks I'm silly. Or used to. He came in last week and I had the old door we picked up at the ReStore cut down, hinges in place and ready to hang. I'm not good with many tools, just learning and I'm loving every minute of it!
I would still like to find my old counselor from high school and tell her a couple of things. I really, really wanted to take some shop classes in HS, but she said "OH no! You're a girl and you won't need those and you need to go to college. How bout you take keyboarding instead?" A week later I was back in her office telling her to get me out of that class or I was going to start skipping. I got out of keyboarding but got stuck in a study hall.
Melanie
Be the kind of woman that when your feet hit the floor each morning the devil says "Oh Crap, She's up!"
Blog~ http://wheelsarealwaysturning.blogspot.com/
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Cherime
True Blue Farmgirl
1222 Posts
Cherime
Wasilla
Alaska
USA
1222 Posts |
Posted - Aug 16 2010 : 05:12:26 AM
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Its a bit after 4am here and I am getting ready to go back out to the garage and work more on the old kitchen cabinets I am reviving. They are old 60 some thing vintage. I have had to make a drawer, sliders and the tracks for them. I LOVE my router. I was able to make the "t" bars for the drawers and sliders to work on And for those with a sticky drawer, those little complimentary bars of soap are just the right size for lubricating the sliders and the "t" bars. First major purchase that I made after my husband died was a table saw. Got a great deal at Sears. This place was unfinished and I knew who had to finish it now. First rule with power tools Keep Your Flesh Out Of The Way. Hugs to all
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Alee
True Blue Farmgirl
22941 Posts
Alee
Worland
Wy
USA
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emsmommy5
True Blue Farmgirl
1547 Posts
Angie
Buckley
WA
USA
1547 Posts |
Posted - Aug 16 2010 : 07:07:54 AM
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Almost all the power tools at our house are mine! I have gotten drills, saws, router, etc. for birthdays, Mother's day, Christmas, etc. I could easily spend half the afternoon at Lowe's or Home Depot just looking and dreaming of projects to do around here. I used to do alot of woodworking... I'd love to get back into it, but that means I'd have to clean the garage.
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Cherime
True Blue Farmgirl
1222 Posts
Cherime
Wasilla
Alaska
USA
1222 Posts |
Posted - Aug 16 2010 : 07:49:32 AM
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Since I always had to clean the garage its part and parcel of the whole affair. I often do let it go until the sawdust reaches critical mass.:)
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