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Comment by Jan Carter on December 15, 2016 at 19:13

I have never seen one of those in person either but it does make an interesting thought

Comment by allanm on December 15, 2016 at 15:21

Thanks Dale, I'll take a closer look from home a bit later. That looks really interesting. I'm used to the conventional standing, or bench top bandsaws - had not until recently seen the portable hand held ones that look like this one would when removed from the base. This one looks interesting - the only downside I see with it at a quick glance, it may not be much use for splitting a piece of wood, aka re-sawing. And of course doubling up as a kind of scroll/jig saw for curved cuts would not be as easy.

In Memoriam Comment by D ale on December 15, 2016 at 15:13

I've always had good luck with tools from Little Machine Shop.

I've no experience with this particular bench style band saw, though.

Comment by allanm on December 15, 2016 at 11:11

So I may well follow in Donnie's footsteps and graduate some day from kit knives and blanks to real knife making. Also from a Dremel (rotary tool) with workstation (mini drill press), 1 x 30 benchtop single speed belt sander, hand held drill, hand held belt sander and a bunch of hand tools to add some more power tools like a band saw, maybe table saw and others.

Fortunately I met somebody at work who aspires to be a bladesmith and has a forge, mechanical hammer of some sort and some other tools that he is happy to have others come over and share is interests with - just help cover costs of propane for his forge and any other materials used.

I'm still looking out for a band saw as my next addition as posted in a general discussion, looking for smallish bench top because of space constraints but I know that will limit my choices somewhat.

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