Diggin' the idea of inlays. What's jointed oak? Tongue and groove or when you glue up a board after having used a jointer? YAA/fuzz asked me about saws. You have any preference, given the choice of a DeWalt 12" slide and a Bosch?
I too learned a wide variety of carpentry helping my dad around the house. Something about construction and wood working comes very natural to me.
The inlays are made easier because I have some oak 'tape', the kind of real wood product you use to conceal the ends of plywood cabinets. I just have to very delicately cut 1/4" strips out of it with a knife and straight edge.
Jointed oak and maple, is quite literally a piece of oak flanked by maple top and bottom to form the drawer front. I have a rather large Festool collection, so the Domino joiner makes short work of that.
I own several chop saws, including the big 12" sliding Dewalt. The question is, what is their intended purpose? Carpentry, unfortunately so by lack of available skilled labor, has come to be known for just about every aspect of home construction, for example. The Dewalt (780 I believe is the model number?) is truly a construction saw. It offers enormous capacity for just about any type of cut. But 12" blades have too much deflection to be accurate for fine wood working. When you need to split hairs, you need a 10".
As a drywaller, I have another Festool piece you would appreciate, the Planex sander. I bought it after having scraped half the popcorn ceilings in my house with a spray bottle and putty knife. Its a giant sander on a pole, in combination with a unique version of their dust collector, that has a mechanism to 'slap' the air filter to knock loose the plaster that sticks to it.
Poles, suction, and slapping all in once sentence... yeah I think I belong around here...
