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A poll to find out which types of power saw you have

Here's the place to talk about all your table saws, bandsaws, routers and dust extractors. In fact anything that makes noise and uses electrickery.

Which type of power saws do you have in your workshop

Poll ended at 28 Mar 2021, 15:33

Table Saw
50
13%
Band saw
59
15%
Basic circular saw
54
14%
Track saw
40
10%
Jig saw
67
17%
Scroll saw
23
6%
Sabre saw
27
7%
Mitre saw
52
13%
Other power saw
24
6%
I only use hand saws
2
1%
 
Total votes : 398

A poll to find out which types of power saw you have

Postby 9fingers » 26 Feb 2021, 15:33

Following up on an assertion about the proportion of members who have table saws, I thought I'd open it up to as many forms of saw that I could think of for curiosity sake.
Feel free to post any comments as well as vote. If you have some saw types but rarely use them that would be of interest too.

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Re: A poll to find out which types of power saw you have

Postby AJB Temple » 26 Feb 2021, 15:39

Surprised not to see mitre saw and compound mitre saw in the list.
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Re: A poll to find out which types of power saw you have

Postby 9fingers » 26 Feb 2021, 15:43

AJB Temple wrote:Surprised not to see mitre saw and compound mitre saw in the list.

oops It is now
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Re: A poll to find out which types of power saw you have

Postby Mike G » 26 Feb 2021, 16:23

Radial arm saw might usefully be on the list, too.
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Re: A poll to find out which types of power saw you have

Postby TrimTheKing » 26 Feb 2021, 16:46

I've got a SCMS, and a see-saw too... :eusa-whistle:
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Re: A poll to find out which types of power saw you have

Postby RogerS » 26 Feb 2021, 17:06

AJB Temple wrote:Surprised not to see mitre saw and compound mitre saw in the list.


Or combination machine.
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Re: A poll to find out which types of power saw you have

Postby 9fingers » 26 Feb 2021, 17:09

Mike G wrote:Radial arm saw might usefully be on the list, too.

True but we can only have 10 items and I wanted to have a Neanderthal option too. So put your RAS down as other maybe

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Re: A poll to find out which types of power saw you have

Postby AndyT » 26 Feb 2021, 17:13

I included a tick for a powered scrollsaw, but for the avoidance of doubt, it's bread and cheese powered, via a treadle.
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Re: A poll to find out which types of power saw you have

Postby novocaine » 26 Feb 2021, 17:44

oh dear, oh dear, oh dear.

it would appear that I have them all. I don't know how this has happened. assuming when you was sabre saw you mean a reciprocating saw that is.

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Re: A poll to find out which types of power saw you have

Postby NickM » 26 Feb 2021, 18:05

I just edited my response to tick "other" as well because I forgot about the chainsaw which I use for dovetails (or perhaps it was for milling some logs into boards. I forget now)
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Re: A poll to find out which types of power saw you have

Postby NickM » 26 Feb 2021, 18:07

AndyT wrote:I included a tick for a powered scrollsaw, but for the avoidance of doubt, it's bread and cheese powered, via a treadle.


I'm afraid you've gone right down in my estimation Andy using new fangled machines like that. :eusa-whistle:
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Re: A poll to find out which types of power saw you have

Postby Lons » 26 Feb 2021, 18:23

You can't possibly have cast your own vote Mr Bob ninefingers sir. I know this because no one has yet ticked the " only use handsaws" box. :twisted: ;)
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Re: A poll to find out which types of power saw you have

Postby 9fingers » 26 Feb 2021, 18:26

Lons wrote:You can't possibly have cast your own vote Mr Bob ninefingers sir. I know this because no one has yet ticked the " only use handsaws" box. :twisted: ;)



:lol: I sort of had Andy T in mind when I added this "none of the above" option but he did not go for it!

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Re: A poll to find out which types of power saw you have

Postby AJB Temple » 26 Feb 2021, 18:33

I think the main thing this shows is that our esteemed moderator can't remember many different types of saw.

Most of us seem to have pretty much everything. This may explain why on this forum we don't get endless threads asking the world at large which bl**dy table saw they should buy or why their bandsaw won't cut straight.....
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Re: A poll to find out which types of power saw you have

Postby AndyT » 26 Feb 2021, 18:36

9fingers wrote:
Lons wrote:You can't possibly have cast your own vote Mr Bob ninefingers sir. I know this because no one has yet ticked the " only use handsaws" box. :twisted: ;)



:lol: I sort of had Andy T in mind when I added this "none of the above" option but he did not go for it!



I was tempted but I was being strictly honest - you ask about which power saws we have and then ask if we only use handsaws. If you had put 'also' or better still 'mostly' I would have ticked that box!


Oh and maybe I should have ticked 'other' as well, but I'm very unlikely to use my Black & Decker drill circular saw attachment ever again, despite still owning it, somewhere a long way down in the workshop storage system. ;)
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Re: A poll to find out which types of power saw you have

Postby Andyp » 26 Feb 2021, 18:41

Of course the question is which saw to you have rather than use. ;)
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Re: A poll to find out which types of power saw you have

Postby Mike G » 26 Feb 2021, 18:44

AndyT wrote:........ I'm very unlikely to use my Black & Decker drill circular saw attachment ever again.......


I should jolly well hope so! A frightening piece of awfulness, designed surely with flesh removal as the number one priority.
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Re: A poll to find out which types of power saw you have

Postby Lons » 26 Feb 2021, 18:54

9fingers wrote:Bob
I did use a handsaw today. Some of our Wisteria needed hacking back and it was an ideal weapon for the job!


Here ya go Bob
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Re: A poll to find out which types of power saw you have

Postby AndyT » 26 Feb 2021, 18:59

Mike G wrote:
AndyT wrote:........ I'm very unlikely to use my Black & Decker drill circular saw attachment ever again.......


I should jolly well hope so! A frightening piece of awfulness, designed surely with flesh removal as the number one priority.


Hardly worth listing it on the for sale board after that review! Ho hum. :?
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Re: A poll to find out which types of power saw you have

Postby Mike G » 26 Feb 2021, 20:11

Ooops, sorry Andy. But frankly, the world is safer with it stored in the back of some deep dark cupboard in your workshop than in the hands of some new-to-woodworking enthusiast.
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Re: A poll to find out which types of power saw you have

Postby 9fingers » 26 Feb 2021, 20:38

My dad used to have a picador version. He made loads of furniture with and don’t recall it being particularly dangerous.
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Re: A poll to find out which types of power saw you have

Postby Trevanion » 26 Feb 2021, 21:47

Bob... How could you overlook Straight Line Edgers, Multi-Rip Saws, Panel Saws, Vertical Panel Saws, Horizontal Bandsaws, Beam Saws, Upcut Saws, Pendulum Crosscut Saws, Resaws, and Laser-Guided Sawmills? Shame on you... :lol:

In all seriousness, I think the only thing I don't have is a Scroll Saw, the one I use the least in the workshop is probably the Jigsaw, but it does get a bit more use out n' about.
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Re: A poll to find out which types of power saw you have

Postby NickM » 27 Feb 2021, 08:37

Mike G wrote:Ooops, sorry Andy. But frankly, the world is safer with it stored in the back of some deep dark cupboard in your workshop than in the hands of some new-to-woodworking enthusiast.


I inherited one of those circular saw drill attachments from my wife’s great uncle when he passed away. I knew nothing about working with wood at the time, but I immediately decided it looked completely lethal and never used it (sadly I think I dumped it, because I’d like to have a closer look at it knowing what I know now).
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Re: A poll to find out which types of power saw you have

Postby droogs » 27 Feb 2021, 12:16

AJB Temple wrote:I think the main thing this shows is that our esteemed moderator can't remember many different types of saw.

Most of us seem to have pretty much everything. This may explain why on this forum we don't get endless threads asking the world at large which bl**dy table saw they should buy or why their bandsaw won't cut straight.....


we know the answer to that one, it's cos we're numpties
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Re: A poll to find out which types of power saw you have

Postby Mr P » 27 Feb 2021, 12:24

I'll see all your B&D saw attachments and raise a box joint maker. :D
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