Tool Guide Reader Survey
Apr 01, 2010
Follow the link below to take the 2011 Tool Guide Tool Survey and get a chance to win some great prizes.
Greetings Fellow Tool Addicts,
With spring upon us, we’re calling upon our dedicated readers and web participants to take part in Taunton’s annual Tool Guide Survey. Based on your input, the 2011 Tool Guide will identify Fine Woodworking and Fine Homebuilding readers favorite hand and power tools.
So what’s in it for you? Besides guiding the decisions of the greater tool-buying public, you might just walk away with a great prize, like a Fine Woodworking or Fine Homebuilding DVD archive ($150 value) or a year’s subscription to Fine Woodworking or Fine Homebuilding magazine. If you’re already a subscriber we’ll tack another year onto your current subscription.
As always, we appreciate your support.
Click here to take the survey.
Patrick McCombe
2011 Tool Guide Editor
Comments
general comments:
1) I purchased a Triton plunge router after reading of its attributes in FW. It's good, but support from Triton is nonexistent, as is the availability of a quite necessary dust collection hose for a portal that is apparently unique.
2) I recently purchased a Shop Fox 3/4 HP bench mortiser that I also think FW liked and have had real problems using a 1/2 chisel in Doug Fir (soft wood). Tonight the metal clutch piece broke in two on a hard pull. Unbelievable.
Please use spiral pipe.
Watch out for the laguna 16" jointer planer combo machine. I purchased one that was severaly defective and laguna replaced it with one that was in even worse condition. 3 months later I finally got my money refunded. The machine had misaligned pulleys and gears, which caused belt damge and caused the machine to throw chains. Torbin Helshoj the owner of Laguna told me personally that the misaligned belts were "not a problem"; they are a severe problem as anyone with half a brain would recognize as soon as they turned on the machine and could smell the belts melting. Beyond this the jointer fence is nearly impossible to set accurately or consistently. Also the manual and the information provided by the sales people contradict each other in several areas. All around my entire dealings with Laguna were unsatisfactory to say the least. I felt like someone was trying to sell me the brooklyn bridge.
I'm considering purchasing a Laguna 8" jointer. I'm looking for feedback on this particular unit.
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