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Author:  Chansen [ Thu Jul 12, 2007 4:55 am ]
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My wife decided to surprise me yesterday when I came home from work. It's our 5 year anniversary (and my birthday in two weeks) and she must have actually heard all the not-so-subtle hints I threw out for the past month. I found this in the back of her SUV when she asked me to "bring in some heavy groceries". It was more $ than she thought so apparently this gift is going to be spread around (anniversary, b-day, Christmas, flag day, Canada day...) which is fine by me.

By the way, this saw is a screaming deal at Equipment Sales and Surplus in Auburn, WA - about 25% under retail. This saw is "surplus" I guess scratch-and-dent kind of thing but nothing that I can see is at all wrong with it and they get all their inventory straight from a Jet warehouse down the road. I don't really know how it works actually, but they are great guys down there.





Author:  Chansen [ Thu Jul 12, 2007 5:03 am ]
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Correction: I did the math and it's more like 30% under retail. Not too shabby. 
Author:  John How [ Thu Jul 12, 2007 5:16 am ]
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Congrats dude, it looks like a good one. Enjoy it and make something nice for your wife!!! Maybe a band-saw jewelry box.
Author:  WaddyThomson [ Thu Jul 12, 2007 5:30 am ]
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Nice surprise.  I bought myself a Gent's saw for $20.00, and felt pretty good.  I can't imagine how I'd feel if I came home to a bandsaw, of any kind.
Author:  Chansen [ Thu Jul 12, 2007 5:49 am ]
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John - I'll have to do something pretty nice for her for this one!

Waddy - Yeah, I was pretty shocked actually, I didn't think I'd actually get this. Did the gents saw work for cutting those rosette logs?
Author:  WaddyThomson [ Thu Jul 12, 2007 5:56 am ]
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Won't know till tonight if I'm lucky.  It may be Sunday afternoon before I get another shot at it.  Granddaughter coming in for a visit in the morning.  Not sure what the "honey do" list looks like.
Author:  burbank [ Thu Jul 12, 2007 6:01 am ]
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Happy Birthday and Congratulations, Christian! I'd say you married well!
Author:  Cocephus [ Thu Jul 12, 2007 6:07 am ]
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Congrats and happy b-day! I`ll bet the honey-do list just got longer though.
Author:  Don Williams [ Thu Jul 12, 2007 6:48 am ]
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You're a lucky man....what a wife!
Author:  John Lewis [ Thu Jul 12, 2007 7:19 am ]
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Sweet!
Author:  JB Dickey [ Thu Jul 12, 2007 7:26 am ]
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Lucky guy.  Happy Birthday.  How old are U?
Author:  WaddyThomson [ Thu Jul 12, 2007 7:33 am ]
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He's a mere child.  Will be 27. I peeked at his profile.
Author:  Chris Oliver [ Thu Jul 12, 2007 8:09 am ]
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Congrats Christian. Never use gloves, don't saw tired and keep vigilant at all times.... if this isn't your first bandsaw, disregard!  Otherwise, keep the sausages safe.
Happy Bday... maybe you could show your appreciation by building her a really awesome guitar. One just like you would want...
chris
Author:  Kim [ Thu Jul 12, 2007 10:22 am ]
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Happy Bday Christian, as Don said........what a wife!

Cheers

Kim
Author:  DannyV [ Thu Jul 12, 2007 11:10 am ]
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Glad to see you guys celebrate Canada Day down there. Nice gift.
Happy Day,
Danny
Author:  Chris Cordle [ Thu Jul 12, 2007 1:56 pm ]
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Congrats on the great gift, the wonderful wife, and best wishes for a
Super B-Day!
Author:  old man [ Thu Jul 12, 2007 2:39 pm ]
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Good score, Christian and happy birthday and all those other holidays. I've had a 14" Jet for 6 years now and I absolutely love it. It's a fine machine for the money.

Ron
Author:  Lillian F-W [ Thu Jul 12, 2007 3:25 pm ]
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Sweet present there Christian.

Ya know, I could have done without the information about where you got it from and how much you saved, what a sweet deal, etc.. Now I have to keep telling myself "No, you can't just go and look. You never just go and look. So what if it's just down the hill, NO."   People are going to stare than the do now. At least Grizzly is close on Saturdays so I can't get into trouble there.
Author:  Lillian F-W [ Thu Jul 12, 2007 3:27 pm ]
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Oops


Happy Birthday to you and Happy Anniversary to you and the Mrs.
Author:  Greg [ Thu Jul 12, 2007 3:57 pm ]
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wonderful gift. It give you license to sneak all the wood into the house without fear ofbeing caught. My wife did the same thing 3 years ago Last christmas I made her Koa/Englemann OM and and a Cigar Humidor. Now she is taking lessons and smoking cubans (legal in Canada).
Author:  crazymanmichael [ Thu Jul 12, 2007 8:26 pm ]
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you are seriously a fortunate man.
Author:  jmanter [ Thu Jul 12, 2007 10:09 pm ]
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Congrats! Rockler makes great table/fence combos for these. I have the drill press version of it and highly recommend them. - Justin 


http://www.rockler.com/product.cfm?page=10164
Author:  robertD [ Thu Jul 12, 2007 10:11 pm ]
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WOW! She must really love you!

You realize now, you'll have to build her that kitchen table she's always wanted.

Robert
Author:  psl53 [ Sat Jul 14, 2007 4:35 pm ]
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Congrates and Happy Birthday. Nice bandsaw. That was real nice of your wife, you know you have a real keeper there.


Peter
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