On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 11:50 AM, David Love <davidlovepianos at comcast.net>wrote: > Time for a new table saw. Any favorites—under $1000, belt driven and a > bit quieter would be nice? > > > > David Love > > www.davidlovepianos.com > > > Hi David, I bought a General Contractor's Saw about 4 or 5 years ago, it looks more like a hybrid because it has a cabinet around most of it. Everything is heavy duty on it, ALL of the wheels, trunions, miter gauge and table are cast iron. It came with a Biesmeyer type fence, it was explained to me that General manufactures the Biesmeyer fences for Biesmeyer and that mine is the same, just without the name on it. It also has a 2 hp motor that was wired for 110 but can be changed to 220, it is belt driven with machined pulleys not cheap cast ones. When you start it up the only sound you hear is the air whistling through the blade! It uses a 10" blade but doesn't come with one which I liked, most companies include a crappy blade, I'd rather buy my own good one. The saw weighs about 350 lbs which makes it heavy enough to stay put but easy enough to move on a mobile base. I have used it to ripcut 4" hard maple (old backposts) and trim Delignet pinblocks and had no problem with power! It is also probably the only saw available still made in North America, Canada, not in China or Taiwan. General makes other models of saws that just happened to be the model that my local tool place had on sale because it was a left tilt. It is also available in a right tilt. I guess if I had just a bit more to spend I would look hard at Steel City products too, they seem to be a real quality outfit. Mike -- I intend to live forever. So far, so good. Steven Wright Michael Magness Magness Piano Service 608-786-4404 www.IFixPianos.com email mike at ifixpianos.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20090105/f326e568/attachment.html>
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