hes probably spent more money on the one tool than i have on all mine

his is a "cheap" one. Aparantly. The scribing blade has to be raised manually

dont want to discourage him wolf as he is 15 isnt realy all that interested in wood work  

and whilst i realy appreciate things staying the same as i left them

it would make me extremly happy and proud if he took up the tools not nesseseraly as a trade but to be competent to use them on his own for his use even as a hobby or to help me on tasks where 2 heads are worth more than the sum total off the parts

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Having used a panel saw with a digital read-out for more than 5 years (mine's the not so cheap one with the power rise and fall on the scorer and the main blade) for those relatively rare occasions when you need to do a mitre cut 0.1 degrees happens to be a tad more accurate than the scale on the front of an ordinary tilt-arbor sawbench or chop saw. When you think about it most mitre cuts are generally either in full or 0.5 degree amounts, certainly almost any frame with 3 to 12 sides works out that way with the exception of 7 and 11 siders (really useful, those). But in any case I've never been asked to make a frame with more than 8 sides.....

Scrit

...being a Joiner a 1/64th of an INCH is even better!!!!!  

must not get too sloppy must we!!! LOL!