# Question for Table Saw Owners...

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-table-saw-owners/285661>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 20, 2005, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-table-saw-owners/285661 "2005-01-20T03:18:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crankyasanoldman/32/11670_2.png) [@CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrankyAsAnOldMan)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2005, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-table-saw-owners/285661/21 "2005-01-20T23:42:40Z")

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> [@racer72](#):
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> Instead of spending say $800 for a top of the line tablesaw, spend $400 on a decent one and invest the rest on a planer/joiner. My planer has done a lot more for me in making my projects look good than my tablesaw ever has.

He’s gotten so he rarely uses it anymore, but occasionally he’ll have a project that reminds him why it was worth it. He made a bunch of cubbies for the preschoolers at my son’s school this year. That was a lot of melamine to cut.

It probably depends, to a large extent, what sort of projects one tends to do.

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