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   _mj_ | Jul 27, 2020 02:17pm | #1

   Harvey has been white-labeling for other brands for years. That saw looks to be very close to my Laguna 14SUV. I don't know if they manufacture for Laguna or not.

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   gulfstar | Jul 27, 2020 02:27pm | #2

   I see only the guides (and the paint) to be different from the 14SUV.

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   john_c2 | Jul 27, 2020 03:24pm | #3

   Big box stores do white labeling all the time. They have the manufacturer produce their normal item, such as this Laguna bandsaw, but at the lower price which the white labeler wants to sell it.

   To make it less expensive, they replace higher quality parts with lower quality. So, why would we want to buy a power tool that has deliberately been made to lower standards? If it was a LOT less expensive, and was going to be used VERY little -- maybe. But those things tend to cost more money in the long run. And cost very, very much more in exasperation.

   Buy the Laguna original.

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   _mj_ | Jul 27, 2020 03:55pm | #4

   Looks $500 +/- cheaper than the laguna. If the motor and bearing specs are the same it might be a sweet deal. I like the ceramic blade guides, but I had an old delta with rollers for years and they worked just fine.

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   gulfstar | Jul 27, 2020 04:23pm | #5

   It is missing the tension gauge (but left the sight glass in the front door ?) and the dust channel below the throat plate leading to the side exhaust. Motor is the same china made Baldor. A case of the manufacturer going direct to the retail business , see all the Shop Fox boxes on their factory floor. Laguna's rights to exclusivity probably ended (if it ever existed).

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   gulfstar | Jul 27, 2020 06:55pm | #6

   MJ I am giving those ceramic guides the test of their lifetimes this week as I rip planks out of dozens of Mozambique ebony logs (Grenadille) !

   
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   _mj_ | Jul 27, 2020 07:29pm | #7

   I am willing to do some split testing if you'll send me a log. VERY kind of me, I know.

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   user7596380 | Jul 28, 2020 01:32am | #8

   Being the former Guitar Doctor for Stars Guitars in San Francisco (Yes, I made "House Calls" to concerts and recording studios) "Back in the Day", all I can see are dozens and more fingerboards. Use it wisely and well. (O'course, one Luthier [last name Thompson] used a 1+" book matched slab between a book matched flame maple top and bottom with a 5 piece, book matched, 24 fret through-the-body neck for Henry J. the IV - "Kaiser" of automobile, cement and now hospital fame, of course), around 1980.
   Bye the way, we were big on book matching, especially necks because that way when one half of the neck would react in one direction, port or starboard, the other half would move in exactly the opposite direction. We also would have either one center strip or three, to make a three or five piece neck depending. To positively control the up and down movement due to string tension and/or environmental conditions, we routed a channel in the neck under the fingerboard and installed a ¼" stainless steel double acting truss rod; brazed at the peg head end and, with the lower rod being longer, have the upper rod terminate in a brass block with a pocket [stopped drilled hole] while the lower rod passed through a hole in the same block far enough so the end was threaded and a nut controlled the only direction the neck could be "Tweaked" - down against the upward pull of the strings. (Just hold your first and middle fingers tightly together, look at them horizontally from the side and you can easily visualize the concept.)

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   gulfstar | Jul 28, 2020 02:23pm | #9

   That is mainly what I am getting between the cracks and hollows, pieces of about 24 inches long , 3 inches wide. The heartwood is rotten away and the wood has deep cracks so it’s hit and miss . If it is allowed to fill the cracks with a carbon black epoxy I could increase the yield but I am not a guitar doctor.

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    user7596380 | Jul 28, 2020 04:23pm | #10

    LOL! Well, as the "Doc" I could just prescribe "Take Two Blondes and Call Me in the Morning", like Ron Armstrong, the major third of the three partners used to do, but that might not work out well on the home front for you. Seriously, though, it looks like you've a fair supply and I do hope you use it well. I even still have a stash of off-cuts, chunks and scraps of exotic woods like purple heart, cocobolo, paduk, rosewood, flame and bubble maple & etc left from when I left Stars in June, 1980. Likely well seasoned by now.

    Don't forget: "Measure once, cut twice." -Dilbert, by Scott Adams