Laguna 14 Twelve Bandsaw Review - Part 2 Follow-Up

[Randy in Calgary [OP]]

I did a follow-up to my original review, which can be found HERE.

Laguna customer service has been excellent. They offered to send me a free blade as compensation for my troubles, but I had a bunch of blades already so they sent me a couple of Laguna T-shirts instead (at my suggestion). Great saw and highly recommended.

Laguna 1412 Bandsaw Follow-up review

[sdergar]

Re: Laguna 14 Twelve Bandsaw Review - Part 2 Follow-Up

Great review again Randy. Love the zero clearance insert for the table top and the nut trick. I've had a few people say that Laguna service is questionable but in every situation that I've called them they have been nothing but great.

I bought this saw last Christmas and love it's power, size and features. The table did give me some issues but problem was taken care of by Laguna. As far as blades, I only use one blade for everything. 1/2" x 3tpi. I've found that once the saw is setup properly I can resaw, cut veneers, circles, etc. all with the one blade.

Good job.

Steve

[DarrylR]

Re: Laguna 14 Twelve Bandsaw Review - Part 2 Follow-Up

Soon I should have one as well

-Darryl

[reginaldian]

Re: Laguna 14 Twelve Bandsaw Review - Part 2 Follow-Up

Took delivery of my 1412 this week from Atlas Machinery in Toronto, and assembled it tonight. Two people and one and a half hours and I was cutting wood!!! Had none of the quality issues Randy had, my serial number is 14031206-14031337 maybe later production date.

Ian

[Randy in Calgary [OP]]

Re: Laguna 14 Twelve Bandsaw Review - Part 2 Follow-Up

Took delivery of my 1412 this week from Atlas Machinery in Toronto, and assembled it tonight. Two people and one and a half hours and I was cutting wood!!! Had none of the quality issues Randy had, my serial number is 14031206-14031337 maybe later production date.

Ian

My serial number 14092901

[Bill R.]

Re: Laguna 14 Twelve Bandsaw Review - Part 2 Follow-Up

TY for the review Randy had my 14/12 since April and very pleased with it. I'll be copying some of your mods. eg.
mdf chip catcher, magnet for the insert and possibly an in-between sized fence. I've already shorten the fence knob & made my own magnetic light.

[Randy in Calgary [OP]]

Re: Laguna 14 Twelve Bandsaw Review - Part 2 Follow-Up

TY for the review Randy had my 14/12 since April and very pleased with it. I'll be copying some of your mods. eg.
mdf chip catcher, magnet for the insert and possibly an in-between sized fence. I've already shorten the fence knob & made my own magnetic light.

You're welcome Bill. Glad to help out. Resawed a bunch of 7 to 9" maple yesterday and today. No sweat.

Just another FYI. I happened to have a 240 volt and a 120 volt plug in my stash of misc electrical parts. Just for grins I cut off the stock 120 volt plug and hooked the saw up 240 to compare resaw runs. Couldn't tell any difference, as predicted in my video. I'll be switching it back to 120 volts tomorrow and re-energizing the plug at the back of the saw.

[Bill R.]

Re: Laguna 14 Twelve Bandsaw Review - Part 2 Follow-Up

Over the yrs. I've changed many pieces of equipment back and forth from 120 to 220 and have never been able to find noticeable difference. There was 1 exception when I plugged a skill saw into an extension cord with 220 on a construction site once the saw ran like mad but the switch was short lived. This was a long time ago in Vancouver around 4:30 in the afternoon I noticed right away something was wrong because at this time of day it was not unusual for the saws to actually slow down my guessing is because of the large draw with everyone cooking dinner.

[DarrylR]

Re: Laguna 14 Twelve Bandsaw Review - Part 2 Follow-Up

Apparently these are flying off the shelves these days. Store I went to said they keep getting them in and all gone very quickly. Said it was similar at other stores. I think the FWW review had a lot to do with it.

-Darryl

[Bill R.]

Re: Laguna 14 Twelve Bandsaw Review - Part 2 Follow-Up

When I order mine last Feb. they were back ordered for 6 wks.

[Wood_smith]

Re: Laguna 14 Twelve Bandsaw Review - Part 2 Follow-Up

Awesome review, Randy! I guess I should drop a deposit on the next shipment coming into Halifax? They may not get more if there's this much demand.

[Mark in Burlington]

Re: Laguna 14 Twelve Bandsaw Review - Part 2 Follow-Up

Great review Randy, nice to see Laguna is raising the class on this size bandsaw.

[John JMK]

Re: Laguna 14 Twelve Bandsaw Review - Part 2 Follow-Up

This thread was on the Festool Forum and concerns the Laguna 14/12 and some of the problems with a brand new machine, just to give a different perspective. The main discussion starts part way through the second page but there is a fair bit of knowledge also shared.

http://festoolownersgroup.com/other-...hs-and-tpi/30/

John

[jaywood1207]

Re: Laguna 14 Twelve Bandsaw Review - Part 2 Follow-Up

This thread was on the Festool Forum and concerns the Laguna 14/12 and some of the problems with a brand new machine, just to give a different perspective. The main discussion starts part way through the second page but there is a fair bit of knowledge also shared.

John

Link please.