I'm looking at this today on Amazon.
Don't worry, I'm not going to buy that one. It has every single possible red flag for "cheap, no QC garbage that works poorly and will break soon."
But the concept intrigues me. I am working in a small garage. I have very limited space on my workbench and for storage. Buying separate benchtop bandsaw and desk/belt sander combo is probably out of the question.
All I really want to do is cut my pen blanks to length (frequently dense exotic hardwoods and/or acrylic blanks). Cut them on precise angles so I can make segmented blanks. And sand things down so that I have a good consistent square cross section to clamp up in my pen blank jaws on my chuck for drilling.
Are there any combo machines that are actually any good for cutting up small projects and doing some basic sanding? The ability to mount a buffing wheel is also rather nice, though I'm leaning towards just getting a 2- or 3-wheel buffing setup for my lathe at this point.
Don't worry, I'm not going to buy that one. It has every single possible red flag for "cheap, no QC garbage that works poorly and will break soon."
But the concept intrigues me. I am working in a small garage. I have very limited space on my workbench and for storage. Buying separate benchtop bandsaw and desk/belt sander combo is probably out of the question.
All I really want to do is cut my pen blanks to length (frequently dense exotic hardwoods and/or acrylic blanks). Cut them on precise angles so I can make segmented blanks. And sand things down so that I have a good consistent square cross section to clamp up in my pen blank jaws on my chuck for drilling.
Are there any combo machines that are actually any good for cutting up small projects and doing some basic sanding? The ability to mount a buffing wheel is also rather nice, though I'm leaning towards just getting a 2- or 3-wheel buffing setup for my lathe at this point.