I bought a 3/4" woodslicer for my laguna 1412 a few months ago due to the widespread praise and acclaim they seem to receive.
I think I got a dud. I felt it cut slowly in hardwood and generally wasn't a great performer. Today it came apart at the weld. I don't overtension my blades nor do I leave them tensioned when not in use. I wasn't really a happy camper as I have a very small amount of board-feet through the blade and the vast majority of the use it saw was cleaning up rough edges on scrap wood and preparing small logs. Only once did I try to push it, resawing a 13" maple glue up into two panels. It did very poorly, but judicious use of a planer can hide many sins...
Has anyone else had a poor experience with the woodslicer? I didn't want to drop $150 on a 3/4 resaw king because I always sort of felt (without evidence) that 3/4 was pushing it for a 110v bandsaw. I have another 1/2" woodslicer somewhere around here I have to locate, but reassurance that mine was just a lemon would be nice. If the 1/2" woodslicer is a better performer overall for me I might buy a resaw king in that size.
I think I got a dud. I felt it cut slowly in hardwood and generally wasn't a great performer. Today it came apart at the weld. I don't overtension my blades nor do I leave them tensioned when not in use. I wasn't really a happy camper as I have a very small amount of board-feet through the blade and the vast majority of the use it saw was cleaning up rough edges on scrap wood and preparing small logs. Only once did I try to push it, resawing a 13" maple glue up into two panels. It did very poorly, but judicious use of a planer can hide many sins...
Has anyone else had a poor experience with the woodslicer? I didn't want to drop $150 on a 3/4 resaw king because I always sort of felt (without evidence) that 3/4 was pushing it for a 110v bandsaw. I have another 1/2" woodslicer somewhere around here I have to locate, but reassurance that mine was just a lemon would be nice. If the 1/2" woodslicer is a better performer overall for me I might buy a resaw king in that size.