Professional or household tool. Three important purchase criteria.

Greetings.

I often search the Internet for various information about machines and various tools for working with wood, look at reviews, read reviews and comments.

And after such searches and views, I suddenly catch myself thinking what will happen in my workshop a professional, expensive instrument and I have nothing to do there, he (the instrument) will almost start making masterpieces made of wood. And a cheap tool all this sucks, nothing they can do and buying it is like throwing money down the drain.

This is exactly the feeling that arises after reading comments on various reviews of woodworking tools. It turns out who are the most best marketers - these are commentators who, with a couple of phrases (not supported by anything), turn everything upside down.

And what is the difference between a professional tool and a household one.

In my opinion, this difference is very simple: a professional tool is more thought out and made for long-term use, and household is designed for the most part for infrequent use with moderate load.

So what kind of tool to choose and who to believe.

On the second question, everything is simple: you need to believe yourself and think with your own head.

But on the first question, I propose to choose using three criteria, which in my opinion will be really important.

First the criterion is the budget that can be disposed of.

Depending on how much you are willing to spend, look at that segment of the power tool.

Second the criterion is the skills, knowledge and experience of using a particular tool. After all, if there are no skills and experience, then by and large there is no difference in what you learn. But all the same it will be a shame to ditch an expensive instrument out of ignorance.

A person who has acquired skills and experience in working with a milling cutter at his main job, will choose a tool for himself already knowing what he wants to get.

Third criterion - scope. That is, the tool can be loaded daily, used in production, or it will turn on, say, once a month in a home workshop for a hobby.

These three criteria are interconnected and with their reasonable use, you can choose a tool specifically for your own capabilities, skills and tasks.

A friend told me a situation when the owner bought only inexpensive thicknessing machines in the workshop with daily loading. The machine was enough for a maximum of a year of work, then it was replaced with a new one. It turned out to be more profitable to do so than to invest in an expensive professional machine, which will serve for many years, but also costs at least ten times more expensive than a simple planer.

Another example. I bought this router 8 years ago for the most part to check how much I will need it at home.

With his help, I made a dining table, a door to the bathroom. I realized that I needed a router that could be put on the table, and this one now successfully serves as an additive router when assembling products on dowels.

But I bought a professional jigsaw after more than five years using a homemade wood machine.

This professional machine is really more convenient and efficient to work in comparison with the previous one. I already know what I need from such a machine and I have no high expectations that it will start working instead of me (but for such and such a price it could :-) )

Or this machine.

In the workshop I needed both a jointer and a planer, but the budget is limited. Having estimated what width and how much volume I plan, I decided to take such an inexpensive machine. It has been serving for over a year now and has fully paid for itself in the first six months. I planed both pine and oak on it, the result suits.

So reviews, reviews and comments are important and have value, but it's better to watch and study all this after how these three criteria have already been identified or at least somehow identified: budget, skills and scope application.

And having an expensive professional tool in the workshop is good, but this does not mean that the tool determines the results of the work. It all depends on the master.

Another example from another area: photography. A knowledgeable person can take a gorgeous photo with a "soap dish", and an inept one with an expensive camera will take a photo like a "soap dish"

There is, of course, one more criterion, for some it may be decisive, because it emphasizes the status - this is show-off.

In a home, hobby workshop, in my opinion, this does not matter much, but for the production of custom-made wood products, show-offs can increase the cost of the order.

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Alexander.

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