I recently made my first Grizzly purchase about a week and a half ago. A table saw. Hybrid model. It was on sale, I need a table saw due to my family coming in and taking my grandfather's wood working tools after he passed away recently...so, I figured if I'm gonna have to replace these tools, I'm going to upgrade to newer/larger ones where needed....but I have to say I will miss that Ridgid TS3612 contractor table saw mainly because of all the projects my grandfather and I made using that saw, and both of us paid for that saw we went halves on it. The next purchase, which I did yesterday was a jointer. You are right they have pretty much everything regardless of your budget...and that's what I like. I can order a tool that I need that fits my budget, but isn't the bottom of the barrel tool yet isn't the high end extremely expensive stuff either....you got a budget, they got a tool that'll fit in that budget...if you order online, you can also use a buy now pay over time option....this is something I took advantage of...Yeah I could have bought that table saw in one chunk of change, but being able to break it into smaller payments was a huge plus, as it kept me out of digging into the savings account. I have a tool list now to get from Grizzly over the next year or so. I plan on getting the shop fully stocked with the proper tools for my weekend projects. I wish we had a Grizzly showroom where I live....we have Woodcraft, and they're kind of hit and miss on stuff sometimes, and prices are ridiculous on a lot of their stuff too, without much selection, unless you want to order and wait and hope you get it.
Great video of the Springfield store. There are actually 3 buildings here, this one is the display and order store... all the Large equipment that you cannot carry by hand, is picked up at their distribution warehouse "kitty corner" to the south west of this building in the video. They will load whatever you ordered at the showroom store, with a forklift onto your pickup, trailer or whatever your hauling it with. The warehouse that is attached to the showroom store, houses all the smaller "carry-out" items, which is picked up at back of the showroom, behind where the milling machines & larger floor lathes are located.
I don't think anyone makes a radial arm saw anymore....pretty obsolete, you can do pretty much the same thing on a sliding dual bevel compound miter saw now....the only thing you can't do is rip....something the radial arm saw, or at least the Craftsman one my grandfather had you could swing the blade assembly around and rip boards down, it worked great....the miter saw is much quicker to change from mitering to straight crosscutting. Another thing you can do with a radial arm saw that you can't with the miter saws, you can't put a dado blade on a miter saw LOL.
Agreed if shop space were not an issue I would happily ditch my miter saw for a radial arm saw. The craftsman one I used as a kid with my father was easy to learn, though for sheet goods we had to turn the saw sideways to get 8' on both sides of the saw.
Just got my first grizzly machine... 8-in parallelogram jointer...I'm a happy man!
I’ve been waiting to see this. Thank you. 👍
I live near springfield...sometimes I go walk around the store for therapy. Like a kid in a candy store!
I recently made my first Grizzly purchase about a week and a half ago. A table saw. Hybrid model. It was on sale, I need a table saw due to my family coming in and taking my grandfather's wood working tools after he passed away recently...so, I figured if I'm gonna have to replace these tools, I'm going to upgrade to newer/larger ones where needed....but I have to say I will miss that Ridgid TS3612 contractor table saw mainly because of all the projects my grandfather and I made using that saw, and both of us paid for that saw we went halves on it.
The next purchase, which I did yesterday was a jointer.
You are right they have pretty much everything regardless of your budget...and that's what I like. I can order a tool that I need that fits my budget, but isn't the bottom of the barrel tool yet isn't the high end extremely expensive stuff either....you got a budget, they got a tool that'll fit in that budget...if you order online, you can also use a buy now pay over time option....this is something I took advantage of...Yeah I could have bought that table saw in one chunk of change, but being able to break it into smaller payments was a huge plus, as it kept me out of digging into the savings account.
I have a tool list now to get from Grizzly over the next year or so. I plan on getting the shop fully stocked with the proper tools for my weekend projects.
I wish we had a Grizzly showroom where I live....we have Woodcraft, and they're kind of hit and miss on stuff sometimes, and prices are ridiculous on a lot of their stuff too, without much selection, unless you want to order and wait and hope you get it.
Great video of the Springfield store. There are actually 3 buildings here, this one is the display and order store... all the Large equipment that you cannot carry by hand, is picked up at their distribution warehouse "kitty corner" to the south west of this building in the video. They will load whatever you ordered at the showroom store, with a forklift onto your pickup, trailer or whatever your hauling it with. The warehouse that is attached to the showroom store, houses all the smaller "carry-out" items, which is picked up at back of the showroom, behind where the milling machines & larger floor lathes are located.
Thanks
I wish grizzly had a store like this in MN
wish we had a store like this in India.
Hey the Alan keys are made in my home town
sure wish that you had slowed down the video taking. it"s so jerky as to be hard to see anything. Sure envy you the chance to see that store.
I don't think anyone makes a radial arm saw anymore....pretty obsolete, you can do pretty much the same thing on a sliding dual bevel compound miter saw now....the only thing you can't do is rip....something the radial arm saw, or at least the Craftsman one my grandfather had you could swing the blade assembly around and rip boards down, it worked great....the miter saw is much quicker to change from mitering to straight crosscutting. Another thing you can do with a radial arm saw that you can't with the miter saws, you can't put a dado blade on a miter saw LOL.
Agreed if shop space were not an issue I would happily ditch my miter saw for a radial arm saw. The craftsman one I used as a kid with my father was easy to learn, though for sheet goods we had to turn the saw sideways to get 8' on both sides of the saw.
I wanted to see the metal lathes....you kept going past them
Sorry, the store is really big with so many cool tools to see.
So basically a tour of a Chinese outlet in 'Murica.
thanks fo including us metalworks in wtf no lathes or nothing selfish
Don’t compare them to the cheap store harbor freight crap