[Nickp]

...and before I realized it, I became the owner of one of Woodpeckers' One Time Tool...

NO...ABSOLUTELY NOT...!!! I did not buy it...PHEW...

A friend of mine was clearing out his shop...I happened to be there...

Here's a quick video about it... Along with it came Woodpeckers' Rabbet Guage set...

...and all this time all I had was a caliper...

 

[Stick486]

you trying to be a crowd of one???
now you really have to have that Veritas rabbet plane...

 

[Nickp]

you trying to be a crowd of one???
now you really have to have that Veritas rabbet plane...

LOL...yeah, I guess I'll have to spring for one soon...

 

[Stick486]

got one yet???

 

[DesertRatTom]

I own three Woodpecker items.

First is multi use, but mostly used to check slot-blade alignment, but mostly for setting the fence. $100, but such a pleasure to use once in awhile. No regrets.

Second, the coping sled I don't use...unnecessary item. Wasted money.

The third is the plate for my Triton router, extra thick, twist lock inserts and many sizes of snap-in inserts. Really like it, overpriced, but worth it. Probably won't sag for a million years.




Other than that, I haven't seen a one time tool worth the high cost, but they are pretty to look at.

 

[OCEdesigns]

One more tool I didn't know about but now I have to have it!! LOL

 

[TenGees]

They are beautiful things. The red is even nicer than that of the Brembo brake callipers, that you see on fancier cars!

 

[Cherryville Chuck]

In Woodpeckers case the cost greatly exceeds the neat factor in pretty much every case. I don’t mind paying extra for quality but they’re past that point of diminishing returns.

 

[Gene Howe]

None of my tools are red. And that DEFINITELY includes saw blades.

 

[neville9999]

I don't do this type of trenching as an exact fit. I set the top of the trench line exactly where I want it and run the trench with a router, I use any cutter that is at least 3/4ers the stock thickness, then I do a rebate on the underside of the stock and that rebate serves a few purposes, One, it leaves the tenon the correct thickness for the groove and two, it leaves a shoulder that sets and exact width when the stock is inserted. This type of groove and rebate joining, can be used for any construction, so I do that and three, it also deals with any stock that varies in thickness quite well, I don't do exact width grooving. N