Best cheapest metal cutting bandsaw

Those highland hardware woodslicer blades are very good. I use them when resawing 8" quartersawn whiteoak for panel insets.
 
Stacy E. Apelt - Bladesmith said:
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I have both a Milwaukee porta-band and a HF 6X4 setup. The 6X4 was taken off the base and put on the end of a workbench top. It only takes up about a foot of benchtop that way.

The porta-band is great for trimming stuff, but I prefer the slightly larger depth/width of cut on the HF for cutting out blade profiles.

Here is how I set up the HF saw:


BTW, I have discovered that in the new BF format, if you click the image link you will see that image only in a separate browser window. If you click the thumbnail image, you will get all the images in a dropdown slide show.
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Sweet set up Stacy. Those images give me some ideas of how I can set up one in my small garage shop without taking up too much room. Thanks
 
I’m using Lennox 14/17 teeth on a HF porta for everything really. Steel, scales, g10. My Ironwood blocks are 1.250 that are split down the center. Blade works fine, although a bit slow compared to a proper wood blade.
 
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got a dewalt portaband mounted to a swag table. Its limited in depth of cut but is pretty handy to have around.
 
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