At 08:53 2/26/2003 -0800, you wrote: >The ShopSmith Band Saw is probably one of the worst band saws I've ever >used. Don't recommend it to anyone. A Delt/Rockwell is pretty good if you >take the time to really "tweak" it. Also, there are many "add-ons" for it as >well. For the cost of the ShopSmith you could buy a real band saw, IMO >Joe Garrett, RPT, (Oregon) 20+ years ago I had little room and even less $$. it's made a lot of piano sawdust as well as a house full of oak trim (windows/doors/baseboard/capital) with it's sawing/disc sanding/molding/drill press and horizontal boring. it doesn't owe me a cent, but i do know it's limitations and I'm not about to get a new bandsaw just to filet one pinplank. Conrad Hoffsommer PTG RPT, MPT, CCT Decorah, IA Certified Calibration Technician (CCT) for Bio-powered Digitally Activated Lever Action Tone Generation Systems
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