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06/12/12 at 15:43:29

Well I've been looking at bandsaws for about 6 months so now may be the time. June 23rd in Bellingham, WA is the day. This could be a lot of fun. Plan on being there at opening looking for a good deal. I'm actually looking at the
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so I'm hoping there will be screaming deal to be had. beer

Now I just have to wait for that day.

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Mike Baber WR Addict WR Supporter Offline When all else fails, ask someone who knows! Posts: 5952 Gender:	Re: Grizzly tent sale Reply #1 - 06/12/12 at 18:42:39 Nice, I hope your able to walk away with a good deal as well, it'd be nice to come home with A NEW TOY wouldn't it!!! Good luck and have fun, make sure your check book is full before you leave...
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Bill Schoppert WR Champion Offline WR Rocks! Posts: 427 Gender:	Re: Grizzly tent sale Reply #2 - 06/12/12 at 19:02:38 I sure hope a good deal is waiting for me. NO checks CASH
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Re: Grizzly tent sale
Reply #3 - 06/13/12 at 03:44:26

Bill,
A word of advice if I may......... If you really intend to go to a Grizzly Tent Sale, I suggest you plan to get there very early. If yours is anything like the one held in Springfield, MO. you will see folks lined up completely around the main building(s) hours before the sale starts. I went (once!) and when I finally got thru most of the line and up closer to the tent sale area, it reminded me of sharks in a feeding frenzy.

Anyway, not meant to discourage you... good luck and I wish you success!

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Bill Schoppert WR Champion Offline WR Rocks! Posts: 427 Gender:	Re: Grizzly tent sale Reply #4 - 06/13/12 at 04:11:31 Oh sure thanks. The blue light special. . I hope it's not to crazy and thanks for the heads up. It will still be fun day.
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Gary R Webb Active Member Offline WR Rocks! Posts: 158 Gender:	Re: Grizzly tent sale Reply #5 - 06/13/12 at 05:55:33 Bill good luck I've had that saw for about 4 years it will cut anything you can throw at it enjoy. Spider
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Re: Grizzly tent sale
Reply #6 - 06/13/12 at 07:45:04

Bill, I bought my bandsaw at the Grizzly Tent sale in Bellingham two years ago. I got there an hour before the gates opened and there were about 100 people ahead of me in line. By the time the gates opened they were more people behind me than in front of me. They had eight G0555 bandsaws in the tent sale (which is the one I was after) and I was lucky enough to get the last one. The others were already taken. So my advice is don't walk, run to the saws and be ready to hang your reserve tag on it. Bring cash. No checks. BTW, great saw, I love it. Good luck.

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Bernie Weishapl WR Supporter Offline WR Rocks! Posts: 2165 Gender:	Re: Grizzly tent sale Reply #7 - 06/13/12 at 07:46:31 I have to agree with Don. Went to one in Springfield and it was a total zoo. I got there about 2 hrs early and still was about 40 yards down the line from the tent. By the time they started letting people thru the line must have been 200 yards long or longer.
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Robert Tewart Active Member Offline God Bless our Armed Forces! Posts: 146 Gender:	Re: Grizzly tent sale Reply #8 - 06/13/12 at 11:34:50 My son is stationed at Bellingham on the USCG small boat station. I told him about the sale and hinted fathers day is coming. Who knows there may be a new tool coming my way.
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Bill Schoppert WR Champion Offline WR Rocks! Posts: 427 Gender:	Re: Grizzly tent sale Reply #9 - 06/13/12 at 17:59:04 Well I think I better get there a little earlier than I planned. thanks for the heads up.
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Vaughn McMillan WR Addict Offline Does this nose make me look fat? Posts: 3794 Gender:	Re: Grizzly tent sale Reply #10 - 06/14/12 at 10:12:52 Bill Schoppert wrote on 06/13/12 at 17:59:04: Well I think I better get there a little earlier than I planned. thanks for the heads up. I've never been to one of the tent sales, but I always got the impression they were like going to Best Buy or Kohl's on the Friday after Thanksgiving...be early and prepared for battle.
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Ron Sardo WR Administrator WR Patron Offline Chief cook and bottle washer Posts: 7794	Re: Grizzly tent sale Reply #11 - 06/14/12 at 11:22:17 The Grizzly tent sale near me (Moosic, PA) people camp out the night before.
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Chuck Beland WR Supporter Head WR Twit Offline I got my eyes on you. Posts: 12447 Gender:	Re: Grizzly tent sale Reply #12 - 06/14/12 at 14:10:26 No Grizz anywhere near me.
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Mike Baber WR Addict WR Supporter Offline When all else fails, ask someone who knows! Posts: 5952 Gender:	Re: Grizzly tent sale Reply #13 - 06/15/12 at 23:35:24 Or me... wouldn't do me any good if their was... mama said she was viewing "my" spending habits... ouch!!!
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Chuck Beland WR Supporter Head WR Twit Offline I got my eyes on you. Posts: 12447 Gender:	Re: Grizzly tent sale Reply #14 - 06/16/12 at 01:13:14 Pat doesn't have to view spending habits since I got to ask her for the money to get anything. She's the minister, guru, queen of accounting that's a definite good thing. way better than me.
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Bill Schoppert WR Champion Offline WR Rocks! Posts: 427 Gender:	Re: Grizzly tent sale Reply #15 - 06/16/12 at 08:17:59 I've been saving for this for quite awhile now and I used my old craftsman (1962 model) again and it has to go. Plus the sweetie has given me the go ahead to get one. With out that I would just be saving. Waiting for next Saturday is getting hard.
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Re: Grizzly tent sale
Reply #16 - 06/16/12 at 13:33:22

Bill -- there will be stories for sure!!! I am looking forward to hearing them.

Even without the big carnival sale, Grizzly is an interesting place to visit. Have stopped there on the way to the Alaska Ferry. It was just to make sure that the vehicle was full of stuff on the way north of course.

Have fun -- and be safe in the crowd driving north on I-5 that morning.

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Ron Radliff Junior Member Offline Posts: 33 Gender:	Re: Grizzly tent sale Reply #17 - 06/16/12 at 17:58:39 I'm only 25 miles from the Bellingham store, but I wouldn't go to that mad house sale if you paid me. It's normally pretty quite in the store, but when they have the sale days it gets busy as an ant hill.
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Bill Schoppert WR Champion Offline WR Rocks! Posts: 427 Gender:	Re: Grizzly tent sale Reply #18 - 06/16/12 at 20:06:18 Ron Radliff wrote on 06/16/12 at 17:58:39: I'm only 25 miles from the Bellingham store, but I wouldn't go to that mad house sale if you paid me. It's normally pretty quite in the store, but when they have the sale days it gets busy as an ant hill. Well I guess I'm a gluten for punishment.
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Bob Hathaway Full Member Offline WR Rocks! Posts: 65 Gender:	Re: Grizzly tent sale Reply #19 - 06/17/12 at 19:24:56 The punishment will be worth it if you et a good deal on the saw you want. I have a Craftsmen like yours (mine is a '53 model) and it really has it's shortcomings.
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Re: Grizzly tent sale
Reply #20 - 06/23/12 at 13:40:16

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that was only missing the cardboard box that it comes in. Wasn't a fantastic deal but not to bad. $800.00. I bought a mobility stand for it and a couple of blades. Now I just have to get it off the truck and into the shop but it's POURING like crazy outside. I got a little wet but that is life and it's covered right now. Angry

Can't wait to play with it.

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Kevin Hedrick Active Member Offline WR Rocks! Posts: 162 Gender:	Re: Grizzly tent sale Reply #21 - 06/23/12 at 13:47:34 Congrats Bill! An engine hoist has helped me in the past.. Or a six pack of cold beverages and a few choice neighbors Glad to hear you made it in time to get one. It always brings a new magic into the shop when you get a new tool doesnt it?
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Ken Vaughan WR Moderator Offline Still learning Posts: 2169 Gender:	Re: Grizzly tent sale Reply #22 - 06/23/12 at 14:18:39 A good bandsaw is indeed the turners best buddy!!!! Neat -- But there must be more to the story....... You surely had to fight off 3 grannies to get it.
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Chuck Beland WR Supporter Head WR Twit Offline I got my eyes on you. Posts: 12447 Gender:	Re: Grizzly tent sale Reply #23 - 06/23/12 at 14:53:34 Congrats remember we want pics.
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Len Layman WR Patron Offline What have I got into?? Posts: 1714 Gender:	Re: Grizzly tent sale Reply #24 - 06/23/12 at 18:15:17 I love happy endings. Well done Bill!!
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Gary R Webb Active Member Offline WR Rocks! Posts: 158 Gender:	Re: Grizzly tent sale Reply #25 - 06/23/12 at 19:33:18 Way to go Bill hope it wasn't as nuts as we all thought it could be. Just be careful and always stay focused when using it they are one of the more dangerous tools in the shop. Spider
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Bernie Weishapl WR Supporter Offline WR Rocks! Posts: 2165 Gender:	Re: Grizzly tent sale Reply #26 - 06/23/12 at 19:44:40 Congrats Bill. I love my griz bandsaw.
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Bob Hathaway Full Member Offline WR Rocks! Posts: 65 Gender:	Re: Grizzly tent sale Reply #27 - 06/23/12 at 20:11:47 Nice saw Bill. It's not raining at my house, bring it on down and we can unload it into my shop!
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Re: Grizzly tent sale
Reply #28 - 06/23/12 at 20:34:22

I was a good day. A fellow turner and me left this morning at 5 and we were sitting at the Grizz at 6:30. There were about 50 people ahead of us and by 8 there most have been 150 behind us. There was a lot of money spent there today. We walked over to the band saws and there were already about a dozen guys looking at the saws. They had one 19, 4 17", the one 14" deluxe that I got and about a dozen regular 14". I wanted a 17 but they were a little rough, bent and missing things so I kept going down the line and there it was. beer

When I was in line with my little piece of paper, a line that lasted for 35 minutes for me, there were people with 3 and 4 carts full of many different things. There was one guy just ahead of me that was spending almost 14,000.00. People do go a little crazy. fun times had by all except until I was almost home. It started raining like dumping. I stopped and put a tarp over it and got soaked to the bone. Neighbor came over and we got it off the truck and into the shop. Dried it off and buffed the rust that had already started on the table. Angry

Sure is pretty.
I forgot. Right behind it is my old one. What a difference.

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David Hamann WR Global Moderator WR Patron Offline Be yourself-every one else is taken! Posts: 5360 Gender:	Re: Grizzly tent sale Reply #29 - 06/23/12 at 20:50:31 congrats on the new toy. you are gonna have some fun now. that is, if the wife lets you back into the shop after you do tour required chores.
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Don Davis WR Patron Offline Safety first! Posts: 214 Gender:	Re: Grizzly tent sale Reply #30 - 06/24/12 at 04:30:17 Bill, it sounds like you got the best of the bunch... and survived a Grizzly tent sale with no bruises. Way to go! I am happy for you (and maybe a bit jealous).
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