............when the basement tool rooms are being used to clean golf clubs and tie flies. All the manufacturers and retailers of tools have sales rebates and deals.
Just a few I've seen: the first and still best wide shoe circular saw, the Makita 1007 is $99 everywhere with a case and blade
International Tool.com and Woodcraft have rebates on everything and Woodcraft has the mogambo Porter Cable Speedmatic router for $299
REALLY good prices on veneer on E-Bay I just got 78SF of Maple for $35.Very few auctions are being bid on and the exotics are going for the opener.
Go to Lowes and get a price on MDF, then go to Home Depot for the meet and beat by 10% and have a customer quote printed, then go back to Lowes and have them meet and beat. Hah!