Have had my 19 inch 5014 for about 4 months now. Ordered it when the price was 950 and waited while it was backordered. They dropped the price to 900 so I opted to go to the end of the line and wait. It is my first bandsaw but it works flawlessly so far. Don't yet have a tablesaw, just a radial arm saw so I now do alot of the more dangerous tasks on the bandsaw, what a relief! Got 3 timberwolf blades (3/16,
1/2 and 1 inch), I do some green wood cutting of logs after using my alaska mill. The quality is pretty good in my opinion, the fence looks a little lightweight, but have had no problems. Cuts straight as an arrow with the half inch blade with no detectable angle from the fench angle and the 2 HP motor seems happy as a clam. Had to put my own cord on, got 15 feet of 10/3, easy to wire in. Made a resaw fence from 3/4 inch birch ply and a 2 by 4 foot outfeed table so far. Will make a circle cutting jig soon. Have cut some redwood sticks about 3 inches in diameter into "veneer". After flattening one side, piece of cake to slice the redwood into 1/16 inch slices, I was trying to get it thin enough to be translucent for a 3 sided wall lampshade after seeing the little piece on DIY about the guy who starts with a 150 pound stump and makes a 1/4 pound, very thin lampshade. The red part of the redwood needs to be much thinner than the sapwood to be transparent so have to do some sanding after cutting to less than
0.050 inches. This saw costs a little more than most 14 inchers, but I didn't like the idea of adding a block (I have 12 inch resaw height), wanted a bigger table, most importantly wanted to use a 1 inch blade for resawing with proper tension and you can never have enough horsepower. For $50, it was easy for me to justify the larger table and cutting width, you have to decide if it is worth $100. good luck, jaime