all kinds of guys are using the Milwaukee porta band with a swag table. Just look at all the you tube videos. For less money there is the harbour freight version. and they don't take up much room.
I use the harbour freight horizontal / vertical bandsaw and it works great. I also do metal fab so I like the option to be able to cut of pieces of tubing and angle square in the horizontal mode. The saw itself is kind of crappy but with some fiddling, you can get very square cuts. It's a bandsaw so you don't need much. Just something that spins a blade a low RPM and doesn't keep throwing the bade off. As long as you don't buy a wood band saw you'll be fine with whatever. Buy a good blade and your off.
Note, you can cut wood with a metal saw ( kind of sucks but will work) but you cant cut metal with a wood saw without burning up your blade. Another thing to caution. The Proxxon blade is perpendicular to the saw. The portabands angle the blade. If the blade is perpendicular to the saw body you can only cut off the width of the throat. However, the offset versions allow to to cut any length so long as it isn't too wide too contact the saw body. For example, if you have a 24" x 2" wide bar, the most length you'll be able to cut off that proxxon is distance from the blade to the saw body. You can cut wider but not at a 90 degree angle. As a porta band twists the blade, the body is set back from the cutting edge meaning you make your cut before the stock hits the saw body. Its hard to explain but hopefully that makes sense. That why the portabands have a weird twist in them.
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