While not the out-and-out thievery that some of you guys report, I did
buy a brand new, only partially assembled Jet 16" BS w/fence yesterday
for $550.
I might have done better but I thought of my wife being a widow in the
same situation and only dickered a little bit.
Happy Birthday to Me.
Now all I need to do is replace the POS blade that came with it and
maybe I can cut some wood.
"Wes Stewart" <n7ws*@*yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> While not the out-and-out thievery that some of you guys report, I did
> buy a brand new, only partially assembled Jet 16" BS w/fence yesterday
> for $550.
>
> I might have done better but I thought of my wife being a widow in the
> same situation and only dickered a little bit.
>
> Happy Birthday to Me.
>
> Now all I need to do is replace the POS blade that came with it and
> maybe I can cut some wood.
I have the same saw, it works great - with a new blade!
Great price!
Dave
Yup. Me too. Got the Ridgid 14" at BORG, then added a 6" riser block.
and a decent fence from Woodcraft. Great saw for the money, and I've
resawn some hardwood up to 7" wide so far (figured bigleaf maple). Took
me a while to get the technique down, but I only screwed up one piece of
wood--the first one I tried.
[email protected] wrote:
>
> Great saw for the price. I spent a year looking for a deal on a
> bandsaw, never found one.
> Had to pay retail.
> Ed
>
>Ouch. Sometimes you just gotta do it. I'm not sure I need this much
>saw, but I'd been tempted by the 18" Rikon. Our local Woodcraft had a
>"vendor day" last week with 10% off on Rikon. I convinced myself to
>pass and then this showed up in the classifieds and I figured it was a
>compromise between a 14" and the 18". I've order up some BCSaw
>blades, so we shall see how it does. Gotta be better than my 12"
>tilting-head Crapsman :-)
>
>Wes
>
>
I like Rikon, got to play with it at the local Woodcraft.
On Thu, 27 Oct 2005 11:10:28 -0700, [email protected] wrote:
>On Thu, 27 Oct 2005 07:42:36 -0700, Wes Stewart <n7ws*@*yahoo.com>
>wrote:
>
>>While not the out-and-out thievery that some of you guys report, I did
>>buy a brand new, only partially assembled Jet 16" BS w/fence yesterday
>>for $550.
>>
>>I might have done better but I thought of my wife being a widow in the
>>same situation and only dickered a little bit.
>>
>>Happy Birthday to Me.
>>
>>Now all I need to do is replace the POS blade that came with it and
>>maybe I can cut some wood.
>
>Great saw for the price. I spent a year looking for a deal on a
>bandsaw, never found one.
>Had to pay retail.
Ouch. Sometimes you just gotta do it. I'm not sure I need this much
saw, but I'd been tempted by the 18" Rikon. Our local Woodcraft had a
"vendor day" last week with 10% off on Rikon. I convinced myself to
pass and then this showed up in the classifieds and I figured it was a
compromise between a 14" and the 18". I've order up some BCSaw
blades, so we shall see how it does. Gotta be better than my 12"
tilting-head Crapsman :-)
Wes
>Ed
On Thu, 27 Oct 2005 07:42:36 -0700, Wes Stewart <n7ws*@*yahoo.com>
wrote:
>While not the out-and-out thievery that some of you guys report, I did
>buy a brand new, only partially assembled Jet 16" BS w/fence yesterday
>for $550.
>
>I might have done better but I thought of my wife being a widow in the
>same situation and only dickered a little bit.
>
>Happy Birthday to Me.
>
>Now all I need to do is replace the POS blade that came with it and
>maybe I can cut some wood.
Great saw for the price. I spent a year looking for a deal on a
bandsaw, never found one.
Had to pay retail.
Ed