Professional Tools bandsaw?

[Michael Cole]

Anyone know anything about these? Found an ad for a 14" for $500, but know nothing about them. Tried googling it and nothing came up. Ad says cost $1500 new.

[Michael Weber]

I know nothing about them but it's been my experience if a tool has the word professional in its title, it's not. Go carefully and excuse my cynicism.

[Michael Cole]

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[Michael Cole]

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[Michael Moscicki]

All I know is if you go to Home Depot's website, and only Home Depot's website, you can find Professional Woodworker branded tools. That should tell you something.

http://www.homedepot.com/s/professional%2520woodworker?NCNI-5

[Charles Taylor]

A little Googling reveals that "Professional Woodworker" is a Homier house brand. Since I don't know anything about Homier, I nosed around their Web site.

My humble opinion to the OP is to pass on this one, whether it's going for $500 or $5.

[Mort Stevens]

...it's been my experience if a tool has the word professional in its title, it's not...

LOL!

Yeah, that's been my experience too.

[Mike Heidrick]

Homier used to be sold at the fly by night tool sales. If you want a cheapy 14" saw it might be worth a hundred to two hundred if you can see it run and crawl all over it looking for damage. Most 14" import bandsaw parts are interchangeable. That saw was prob $500 new off the truck.

[John McClanahan]

It is the same as Harbor Freight, Cummins and all the other low end tool names. It's an old Delta clone. It is worth about $100 tops, not $500.


John

[Brian Kent]

The stamping on the covers is even the same on Harbor Freight. Right now it is $369 new.

[Myk Rian]

That is a cheap Chinese knock-off. I used to own one years ago. It was made in Taiwan back then. Gave it away for free.

[Michael Cole]

Thanks for the information.

[Wade Lippman]

It is the same as Harbor Freight, Cummins and all the other low end tool names. It's an old Delta clone. It is worth about $100 tops, not $500.


John

No, its not. I bought 7 things at a Homier sale and 6 of them broke the first time I used them. HF might be junk but at least it works. (The 7th, a tape measure, lasted about 10 years before breaking.) I wouldn't take a Homier BS if I saw it in the street.

[Dave Cav]

That is a cheap Chinese knock-off. I used to own one years ago. It was made in Taiwan back then. Gave it away for free.

You did better than I did. I had one for about 15 years and the pot metal castings simply fell apart from old age. I saved the motor and the rest went in the metal recycle at the transfer station. The motor is still running a W/T belt disk sander. (I know, I know....).

[Edward Oleen]

I noticed that the "Professional Woodworker" router bit set for $59.00 has "35 pieces" in it. That comes to an average of just over $1.68 per bit...

Why am I spending considerably more than that for a Freud Diablo bit?

The only thing "Professional" in the "Professional Woodworker" line is that the advertising people are "Professional" liars.

When you go to the BORG, buy only brand name items, else you are throwing your money away.