Well I just have to be satisdfied with my homebrew 20" bandsaw. I
have less than $100 into it and it does what I need to do. So far it
has performed just fine. Last night I cut up some 3/4 and 1" steel
plate for a home made press brake, and it cut it fine. I cut a bunch
of thinner sheet stock for the saws cover with it using a rip fence
(angle clamped to table) and its a straight as it gets.

While it may not have the optimum speed for wood working, I do very
little except to make patterns for my castings, and with a wood
cutting blade it works just fine at my highest SFPM range. Besides I
hate wood working with a passion. Guess its because as a kid I was
forced to work in wood with my dad. I prefer metal slivers in my
fingers than wood splinters ;-)

I had looked at JET and Wilton but all were way out of my range.


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