Welcome to Wood Talk, for Woodworkers by Woodworkers.

Now here are three guys who, if combined, would make one hell of a woodworker.

Mark Matt and Shadden.

All right, it's Wood Talk number 249 for June 12, 2015.

It's a weekend edition of Wood Talk.

And on today's show, we're talking about aftermarket upgrades for our tools.

Nothing more, just a very simple single topic.

And that was inspired from a question we got from Peter.

He says, do you guys have any thoughts on upgrading or adding

accessories to tools as opposed to selling or buying new? I ask as I bought a contractor saw

and was quite displeased with it. The problem was the guide rail. It just didn't work.

I'm guessing he's talking about the fence.

That's what I'm thinking.

Yeah.

I have since endeavored to make a new Bizamire, yep, okay, Biesamie guide rail and add extensions on both sides for myself.

It has turned out to be significantly cheaper than selling the contractor saw and then buying a new cabinet saw.

So it sounds like a good success story there and I'm sure lots of folks have the other side of it,

not having success trying to do upgrades.

So we thought we would go around and just trade some stories

about things that we've upgraded and successes we've had or possibly even failures I

don't know we haven't haven't talked about this ahead of time so we'll find out

it can only be good from here right? I hope so. I hope so. You know well I'll go first here. He mentions the table saw now that for me was a major factor when I first started out. I had a craftsman contractor saw and it was that kind where they have that aluminum extrusion,

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