Chris F
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Registered: 26th Dec 05
Location: Newmarket Drives: Escort Van 1.8
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AM starting to save and gather tools for becoming a carpenter!
Bit expensive tho
Mitre saw 600 quid
Drill 200 quid
Jigsaw 100
Better get saving!
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Registered: 27th Dec 06
Location: Bristol
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sounds like a tesco value trip to me :LOL:
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Scotty C
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Registered: 6th Nov 05
Location: Kidderminster Drives: 1.6 16v Sport
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cool
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Jake
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Registered: 24th Jan 05
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why dont you get with a fucking company who will either buy some tools for you, or get them cheap. What do you plan to do with these tools once you bought them?
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Bonney
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Registered: 14th Nov 04
Location: St Helens
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cool, what make of tools have you got?
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Chris F
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quote:
Originally posted by Bonney66
cool, what make of tools have you got?
none yet mate
Mikita , Dewalt or Hitashi
not sure yet!
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G.C.M
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Registered: 14th Aug 03
Location: Sunderland
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makita and dewalt are good mate, got tools from both, but there are other good makes you can buy that while less expensive are still good quality
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Bonney
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Registered: 14th Nov 04
Location: St Helens
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i prefer de walt to makita, as i was told they arent as good as what they where years ago
just started doing bench joinery now meself, after doing site for a couple of years
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Cosmo
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Registered: 29th Mar 01
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TBH just buy cheaper ones for now until your earning a bit of money doing good quality work and then splash out on top stuff.
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bigjim172000
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Registered: 3rd May 05
Location: New Buckenham, Norfolk
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I would recommend Ryobi, Very good tools. My mates dad is a pro carpenter and builder and between me and him they get a bashing. I droped my hammer drill (battery powered) from a high roof sprinter onto concrete 3 months ago and its still fine 
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philrussell81
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Registered: 27th Dec 04
Location: Sheffield
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ryobi, very good value for money, and 2 if not 3 year warranty
bosch, excellent, and 5 year warranty if registered online
i work for speedy hire, and we use alot of makita, and hilti, they get a right bashing, and still go on and on
dewalt is good, if you get the ex elu stuff.. dunno if you know, but black'n'decker own dewalt, and alot of their new stuff is old b'n'd stuff, coloured yellow, so not that great
if your struggling to buy it all, DIPT protrade do a 'hire-buy' deal where you 'hire' it for so many weeks at so much £ and then you own it at the end...
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C2RL R
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Registered: 28th Mar 02
Location: Redcliffe, QLD
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I've recently used some Ryobi cordless tools and was impressed with them. I have Dewalt cordless tools at work and most of my other power tools are makita. Work paid for them tho so they aint really mine. I had a bosch proffesional 18v drill about a year ago and it was shite, the battery release stopped working and the chuck was virtually impossible to tighten by hand.
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Dan295
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Registered: 9th Oct 06
Location: London
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why not get yourself into an apprenticeship, my friend has an he says he goes through tools so much and his boss buys them for him and his team, on the sites they work at they get nicked all the time, and they only really buy middle of the range stuff, good spec but not neccessarily for the label
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