re: Woodworking Advice

Very few clamps, no chisels. What do you recommend?

Generally speaking, you can probably do 60% of woodworking with a table saw.

Go find the Fine Woodworking magazine devoted to the table saw, has probably a dozen jigs to make for different woodworking techniques.

Starting out though you can run a skilsaw which will save you some money in case you aren't into it.

If your serious though, table saw is key. And unless your doing woodworking for a job, the Ridgid brand of table saws have extremely great reviews for their price. In Fine Homebuilding/Woodworking, Ridgid has the same quality reviews compared to Bosch's saws. I have the general contractor saw currently, I'll eventually build a a work bench to accommodate it.

Another big tool to have is a router, these two tools together can do probably 85-90% of any woodworking tasks. But this tool will rack up the costs relatively quickly with the amount of money you'll spend on the bits, buy when you need them.

Miter saws are optional for long lumber but this can be carefully taken care of on a table saw with a crosscut sled.

I have a sander with several grits and lots of them. Another great tool in the smoothing area are hand planes, I particularly will be buying a smoothing plane soon. These consist of any in the 5" to 10" range.

Bandsaws are awesome too but I would leave that for the Christmas bonus area.

Lastly, make sure you got a drill, with the Kreg system, worth its weight in gold.