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26 April 2020 at 3:22 am #658714
My wife allowed me to splurge a little over a year ago and get a 14″ Laguna, and I absolutely love it. My hand resawing was pretty sketchy – I’d lose a lot of width from the wood because I didn’t cut right to the line. I’d allow a good 1/8-1/16″ because I didn’t have confidence in my ability to saw straight, so a lot of waste and a lot of planing, and I’d avoid projects that I couldn’t do with 3/4″ lumber.
The bandsaw has been awesome, for both ripping and resawing. It’s been easy to set up and tune, and straightforward to use. I’ve got and small cyclone dust separator and a basic shop vac hooked up to the dust ports, and haven’t had a dust problem at all. I’ve been able to work on a lot more projects now that I don’t have to spend so much time and effort on prepping the stock – if comes off the bandsaw a lot more square and true than I could get with my old Disstons. I’ve got no desire to get any other power tools, but this one has been a Godsend.
26 April 2020 at 3:00 am #658711I’ve been using a cyclone separator that sits on a 5-gallon bucket with my band saw and shop vac, and it’s great. I’ve had to empty the bucket a couple times now, haven’t emptied the shop vac once, and I’m not seeing dust blowing back into the air with a standard shop vac filter. Strongly recommend.
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