> 5) bandsaw.  Again the cuts aren't straight (but could use some
> wooden blocks to hold things to fix this)

Oh, "a bad workman blames his tools" ;-) The *saw* doesn't cut
crookedly. Once you get your eye in it's pretty easy to follow a
line. Although when I got my strapping 16yo nephew to do some
it looked like they'd been done by a monkey on acid. I'm told
we're actually related but I found that hard to believe at the time ;-)

(keep comments to yourselves please ;-))

Not too hard to make a guide to to do a straight line though. Finish
up with a file, as you said, or a belt sander

> Disadvantage - well, they are large... 

Advantage - useful for all kinds of things. From sawing frozen
meat (true, wouldn't fit in the freezer) to odd shapes and angles
in timber that would be very tedious to do any other way

A router is handy too, with a 1/4" and 1/8" flute

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