Bandsaw advice

[mattkemp]

Hi I'm looking to buy a bandsaw for the workshop but with so many out there can anybody recommend one around the £300 mark give or take a bit is the budget?

Any advice would be gratefully received

Cheers


Matt

 

[rayf6604]

As big as you can afford and accommodate in your workshop as you'll always wish you had bought bigger

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[wm460]

As big as you can afford and accommodate in your workshop as you'll always wish you had bought bigger

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Couldn't have put it better.


“It's unwise to pay too much, but it's worse to pay too little. When
you pay too much, you lose a little money - that's all. When you pay
too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you
bought was incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do. The
common law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a
lot - it can't be done. If you deal with the lowest bidder, it is well
to add something for the risk you run, and if you do that you will
have enough to pay for something better.”


― John Ruskin

 

[Pierre]

I had a similar question last year and from all my searching I settled on Axminster now if you are only going to do pens then this one should do http://www.axminster.co.uk/axminster-hobby-series-hbs250n-bandsaw-508204 BUT if you want to do more then I would advise trying to double your budget and go for this http://www.axminster.co.uk/axminster-hobby-series-hbs350n-bandsaw-508206 as the others said you will soon find a load of extra things that you want the band saw to do and will always want bigger. The one in the middle has too many unsolved issues (see the reviews) to be worth buying and its issues will impact on your penmaking. The final decider for me was the bearing guides which allow for a smoother cut and they work having now used it for 6 months. Failing that have a search for a second hand one, there are always auctions of failed businesses around. Best of luck.

PG

 

[Woody]

With that sized budget you would be better of trying to find a good secondhand one £300 will only get you a big bucket of regrets the old saying is buy cheap buy twice

 

[Penpal]

Try for great 2nd hand.

Peter.

 

[mattkemp]

Ok thanks for the advice will search that famous auction site again and Internet

 

[Jim]

A good second hand one would be the best idea Matt .. As said, you would only regret it at a later date ..

 

[silver]

Sound advice from the experts there, couldn't have put it better myself..

I spent over double that on new only to find the same one at half the price and only a year old at a third of the price..

Ok thanks for the advice will search that famous auction site again and Internet

Try other site, pre loved, gumtree etc etc. You will find them a little cheaper as well.

 

[Pierre]

Matt you have set your budget so don't bid any higher but try here http://www.bidspotter.co.uk/en-gb/a...0285/lot-4b06e15a-5b7f-4011-9d6c-a60900b4a338 If you don't get it then tough but at least you will have tried. You know the age old saying ... If you ask you don't get ...If you don't ask you don't want!! have fun

PG

 

[Penpal]

Let us know in pics what and when you buy, good hunting.

Peter.

 

[Scots Bill]

Buy cheap, buy twice! big as you can get, perhaps second hand.

 

[wm460]

Have you thought about making you own B/saw?

 

[mattkemp]

Will do Peter to be honest I haven't thought about making my own. I have a friend who has a large 3 phase bandsaw. So large diameter and bowl blanks etc is easily done but just after one for my self when cutting pen blanks and doing little stuff

 

[Pierre]

Have you thought about making you own B/saw?

Mark that was not nice... First of all you sent him a message from Australia so he thought it was Penpal then you gave him a radical thought about making his own band saw.....

Now I don't know what you lot get up to in Tennant Creek but in UK its not considered to be Kosher to make one's own band saw; in fact that would go against so many European laws that it would almost be tantamount to be inviting Australia into the Eurovision song contest after all what would Australia know about singing or Europe!!

PG

 

[Penpal]

Mark that was not nice... First of all you sent him a message from Australia so he thought it was Penpal then you gave him a radical thought about making his own band saw.....

Now I don't know what you lot get up to in Tennant Creek but in UK its not considered to be Kosher to make one's own band saw; in fact that would go against so many European laws that it would almost be tantamount to be inviting Australia into the Eurovision song contest after all what would Australia know about singing or Europe!!

PG

Not much but enough to take the establishment by storm it would appear. What a blast. Enjoy the summer while we freeze.

Kind regards Peter.

 

[Penpal]

Aldi has one coming up over here may also be your way suitable for playtime cheap as while you look for the real thing.

Peter.

 

[wm460]

Mark that was not nice... First of all you sent him a message from Australia so he thought it was Penpal then you gave him a radical thought about making his own band saw.....PG

Now that is a good alibi,I wasn't me Officer, Its those bloody southerners again.

Now I don't know what you lot get up to in Tennant Creek but in UK its not considered to be Kosher to make one's own band saw; in fact that would go against so many European lawsPG

What ever happened to the great British innovating mind?
Seen some brilliant things on a pommy metal work forum.

that it would almost be tantamount to be inviting Australia into the Eurovision song contest after all what would Australia know about singing or Europe!!

PG

An Aussie in Eurovision contest got to be 1000% better than a bearded bloke in a dress.

 

[wm460]

If you look around his work shop, he makes most of his equipment.
There is 19 vidios in this series about making hi B/Saw.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XE1X3mvCTCc&list=PLF6EF6609E8BD58B9

Have fun.