Total Shop (TM)

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2 total messages Started by Kevin Hoskins Wed, 26 Mar 1986 15:59

#437

Author: Kevin Hoskins
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1986 15:59

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     I recently came across an ad concerning the Total Shop multi-tool
for woodworking. It looks so much like the ShopSmith as to be down right 
patent infringement. It sells for the same price as the Mark V ($1295)
but the company is currently giving a 400 dollar discount on the machine.

     What I would like from any of you out there is anything you know
about the machine and how it compares with the Mark V.

     Thank you.

     Kevin

Re: Total Shop (TM)

#440

Author: Bill Cox
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 1986 22:32

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In article <1309@voder.UUCP>, kev@voder.UUCP (Kevin Hoskins) writes:
>      I recently came across an ad concerning the Total Shop multi-tool
> for woodworking. It looks so much like the ShopSmith as to be down right 
> patent infringement.

I can't tell you how it compares, but I believe that all of the major
ShopSmith patents have expired.  I've seen at least one import
knock-off in a local 'discount' store (Menard's Lumber), but I don't
recall the brand.  I thought the price was in the $600 range, but I'm
very unsure of that.

Check the ads in Fine Woodworking, Popular Science, and Workbench.

	bill

-- 
	William Cox
	Computer Sciences Department
	University of Wisconsin, Madison WI
	bill@wisc.crys.edu
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