On 17 May 2006 10:35:16 -0700, "charlie" wrote:

well, if you look at the 2nd link i posted, it's a real bandsaw,

No, they're both Tauruses. I haven't seen a Taurus 3 here in the UK yet,
but all the others were rigid rings, not bandsaws.

I was also warned off flexible band saws for glassworking recently (I
was looking to buy a ring saw) on the grounds that they didn't cut as
well "edge-on" as the thicker rings did.