Late report, but my sweetie got me a Jet metal bandsaw, which is sweet. It replaced a Northern Tool 4x6 cheapo that I could never get to cut straight and pretty much irritated me the whole time I had it.
My neighbor bought me a set of dura-block sanding blocks, and my son bought me a DeWalt 7" made-in-China grinder that was too hefty, so we took it back, found a Milwaukee 4.5" on sale for 1/2 off, and he saved 100 bucks!! :-) This is my first Milwaukee and I really like it. Not sure if it beats out the Bosch power tools I have or not, but between Milwaukee, Porter-Cable, and Bosch, I couldn't pick the winner.
All in all, I couldn't complain. If Santa really existed he would have come up with a new 18 volt cordless drill motor to replace my 12 volt DeWalt that has served me faithfully for about 20 years but is getting weaker and weaker.
But as far as tools if I wish big I only would want a bigger shop and a lift, and maybe three nice paint guns and a paint booth, and a sandblaster, and a tubing bender and notcher, and some sheet-metal tools like a beader, brake, shear, notcher, flanger, punch, English wheel, hammers and dollys, and sanders.
That would round things out...
Last edited by R-Bo; 01/26/2008 5:35 AM.
