RE: Building Calls
My tablesaw is the most important & first tool I use (cutting out box and lid, cutting rabbets for inlaying), drillpress is nice to have (initial hollowing out of box and drilling hole in box & paddle for screw), but my favorite power tool and the one that saves me more labor than all the others is a 6" X 24" belt sander that either lays horizontal or tilts to vertical. I use it to shape lids and sounding boards, sand off extra inlay material, finish base bottoms and their rounded edges, and miter off corners of box and lid.