Well since I've been working 6 days a week for the last couple of months and some 10-16 hours and there is no end in sight of a 40 hour work week I asked Santa Cudalass to bring me a new toy!

It arrived today and after struggling with the directions it's assembled and ready to go out to 'the shop'

I do hope it will hold up for a long time. I'd thought about getting the 'Harbor Freight' version and there is the 'Wen' version but after doing a lot of research even though all seem to be made by the same guys at C. H. Ina company I went with the RYOBI version.



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I'll probably need to make an adapter for R2 Suckstoall (fancy shop-vac) but I like that it has the exhaust port;
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I'll practice on some wood pieces that ski gave me to learn how to make scales on before I attempt anything on the bone or synthic material that I picked up a while back.

Thanks for looking! :