When he was younger, Jack used to make armies out of these guys when I worked in the garage. (Either that, or I just wasted a pile of r eally expensive screws that came with a free house). I'm not sure what they are for since they are so short, maybe for building green fences? Either way, they were my absolute favorite price, free! They came with the house. To screw the top and bottom sheets of plywood down I grabbed these green coated screws. In my quest to be financially conservative on this less than polished piece, I pretty much tore through my stock of leftover screws. My existing, main workbench is bolted to the wall which makes clean-up difficult. I pushed the thing out of the way to pick up screws, washers, and tools before hitting the whole area with the shop vac. I can tell I'll like it being mobile already. Too bad I don't have a nice miter saw bench to work on yet. It was so much easier than using the table saw to crosscut unwieldy 8 foot long boards, even thought I had to rig up some out-feed supports to do it. I'd been using the new miter saw, on the floor to cut the 2x4's. I looked at a lot of plans, watched some YouTube videos, and flipped through some magazines. My work bench wouldn't fit it and It's not a work on the ground type of tool (although I did mess with it that way for some test cuts). The price dropped down a couple hundred dollars, so it was time to strike. It was the next workshop machine on my wish list. I really wanted something similar for future projects, but wanted to kick it up a notch. I'd used this model about a year ago when I took a community-ed wood working class, and I really liked it. I had borrowed a 10' Delta single-bevel miter saw to do the crown molding in the family room. The 10 inch miter saw was a sweet tool.

My victory prize was a beautiful Dewalt 12' Double Bevel, Sliding Compound Miter Saw. It was not exactly a surprise, because I was the gladiator that stormed into the arena of Black Friday mayhem to drag it, alone out of the carnage. My loving family bought me a shiny new, black & yellow toy for Christmas.

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