Bandsaw: Craftman and Ridgid identical ?

I look for a 14' bandsaw. I saw that Craftman professional and Ridgid seem to be the same. Is this the same thing?

S.B.

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I was pretty amazed that Craftsman or Ridgid would make a 14 foot bandsaw (14' in OP), and when I checked HD's website to look at the Ridgid, apparently it's true! Check it out - "smooth running belt drive that delivers power to resaw up to 6 Ft.' thick oak."

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- if you can get 6 foot resaw capacity, go for it. If not, you might check out Grizzly.com - their 14" Ultimate Bandsaw appears to be a better deal for less $ than either of the ones you mentioned, and it's built in an ISO9001 factory. Good luck, Andy

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Andy

Pot calling the kettle black... On my computer it says 6", not 6'.

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Toller

Bummer. Oh, well - if you have 6 foot wide boards to resaw, you'd better not be shopping for those kind of tools at Home Depot. As far as the original question, the bases and motors on the Craftsman and Ridgid look completely different, at least on their respective websites. And by the way, no affiliation with any of these companies... Andy

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Andy

A few years ago, an article in Forbes magazine said that Home Depot had out-maneuvered Sears and started used the Craftsman OEM (Emerson) to manufacture tools, putting them under the Ridgid logo. The Ridgid tablesaw that I bought at that time sure looked like the earlier Craftsman items -- in fact, HD was giving a $100 trade-in to everyone who turned in a Sears tablesaw and bought a Ridgid. This forced Sears to go to a new supplier.

The Ridgid line of tools uses the name from Ridge Road plumbing supplies, with HD manipulating things behind the scenes. (HD did a similar operation for a couple of years in the '90s, when they started to market lawn tractors built by John Deere, under the "Scotts" logo.)

So the "new" Ridgid came from the manufacturer of the "old" Craftsman . . . or so I've read -- Regards --

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World Traveler

in two (2) different places on this page:

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fredfighter

Very true! Emerson Electric now manufactures the Rigid line for HD (although I hope to better standards and specifications) At least they did a good job with the new contractor's saw.

Sears went searching for a new supplier. The found Ryobi. I'll leave the quality discussion up to you.

SS

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nospam

As I understand it, the ridged and grizzly 14" BS's are identical and made by the chiwanese... the craftsman doesn't look anything like my ridged, except for the size of the wheels..

mac

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mac davis

Now you have me confused. I read in this NG about a year or so ago that Emerson had stopped making stationary power tools for the Ridge Tool Company (which are marketed through HD) and that now they are made by Ryobi.

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Rob Mills

not sure how you spell it, but I was told here (this ng) that the ridgid and grizzly are both made by the "elephant" company in China and are identical...

this would seem logical, since I put a grizzly riser block kit on my ridgid saw and it works fine... YM (and spelling)MV

mac

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mac davis

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You need a better monitor. On mine they are clearly inch symbols.

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Toller

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First of all, I copied and pasted the text so the ASCII symbols posted to USeNet are the same as the ASCII symbols on the webpage.

Secondly, Are we to undersstand that on your monitor the symbol for 'inch' is 'Ft'? That's a very peculiar monitor.

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fredfighter

"Toller" wrote in news:Iib3f.9638$ snipped-for-privacy@news02.roc.ny:

Hm. My 21" Philips clearly shows the text as 6Ft'

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John Thomas

since pretty much all of the 14" bandsaws on the market now are clones of the old delta design, it wouldn't be surprising if any of the riser kits fit any of the saws.

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bridger

Actually that indicates feet twice, once with the avvreviation "Ft" and onlce with the symbol "'". SO maybe they mean square feet of whatever thickness. After you cut 6 square feet of oak, you need to buy a new saw...

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fredfighter

Hey, go easy on him. He's probably a Virgo and life is tough when you see things out of order like that. Bad spelling is worse than coloring outside the lines.

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Edwin Pawlowski

Damn... I have that saw, with riser block.. does that mean that I can resaw 12 foot thick stock? *g*

mac

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mac davis

Sure... if you can find a blade.

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Mortimer Schnerd, RN

my guess would be that it would be a lot easier to find the blade than it would be to AFFORD it.. lol

mac

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