Quote Originally Posted by Frank Pratt View Post
Those Harvey machines do look like they're "a cut above". Nice to have more high quality choices.
I wouldn't say cut above but certainly it seems for the price they are a pretty good deal. I'm not all that impressed with the cast iron tops. The cast top on my old saw are smoother and seem to be more "tightly" cast. There's a cord from the switch to the cabinet that is seriously in the way of accessing the tilt handwheel. That will have to be replaced with a longer one so it can be moved out of the way. The paint job on the rail is pitted and the bevel on the main table and the cast extension are of different sizes. No reason for that in this day of CNC machines.

On the other hand, their newer products, like the miter gauge and the dust processor, really do seem a cut above.

Quote Originally Posted by Doug Colombo View Post
Do you know what the distance from the front of the blade (fully raised) to the front of the table is ?
From the front edge of the cast iron table, it's 14" to touching a fully raised 10" blade.