SWAG portaband

[hawaiiysr]

Just ordered a Swag portaband table for my Milwaukee bandsaw. im pretty excited about. bought it because i hate using my abrasive saw. messy and loud. and of course the reviews of GJ members. looking forward to some projects. cheapest i could find it was off the swag sight and i bought the petal as well. best part shipping was FREE to me in HAWAII!

how may of us own these?

 

[Disney]

Love mine. One of the most frequently used tools in my shop. I also got the foot pedal and don't know how i'd lived without it now. Walk up, hit the pedal and start cutting.

 

[redvalkyrie]

I imagine a lot of people have it. I do and do not regret the purchase. It just makes life to much easier.

 

[evintho]

SWAG makes a nice product but being thrifty (cheap) as I am, I made my own. 1" square tubing, some scrap steel plate and a $2 garage sale vise. Been using it for years. Cuts steel like butter!

Scavenged the tabletop from the dumpster at work.

Mounted my 6230 and bingo, stationary bandsaw!

 

[earlthegoat2]

Had it for a year now and have not used it yet

 

[Chicken]

I've got one and I'll say it works quite well and quality is great, but I just don't use it often or the portaband for that matter. Luckily it's small and doesn't take up much space.

Maybe I'll have to post it for sale.

 

[Carroll B]

Used my SWAG stand last year when I made a luggage rack for a friend's motorcycle. It worked great when cutting the 1/2 square tubing we used for the rack. He got a quote of $800 from a custom bike shop and we made it for $35 in steel. He didn't want it chrome plated so he painted it with a rattle can.

 

[tripplejl]

Got one after I convinced myself I had to have it. I used it once and there it sits. Great quality and well built. Have limited shop space so it serves it's purpose but I am not using it nearly as much as I thought I would.

 

[DonkeyFluffer]

Mine has quickly become the most used stationary power tool in my shop. Cut metal, wood, and plastic with it all the time. I like the zero setup time vs other methods/tools

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[bcradio]

I got one and it is about the most useless tool I own. I can't stand that thing. It doesn't cut straight at all. I messed with it for hours and hours and called tech support and everything and it still would not cut straight. Was not worth returning it so it just sits there unused. I wish I had not bought it.

Hopefully yours works out better for you

 

[cheechi]

been cutting pipe bigger than my M12 portaband can do, and not the kind of thing my Porter Cable vertical/ww bandsaw can do. Was looking at getting a bigger portaband, and as a result looking at the SWAG table. For me, it won't be an every day or every week use, but especially with the foot pedal its nice to just have it set up and ready to go. I'd actually use the portaband portably also.

Until I have a need that nothing else will cut it, I'm waiting for a sale or deal to buy the saw but once I do I'll be getting the SWAG table to go with it. Probably going to put an outlet/light switch box mounted under the table rather than the foot switch.

May want to read through this older thread. One person at SWAG is a member here and replied there also.

 

[paranoid56]

have had mine for maybe 5 years and use it weekly. works sooo nice, replaced my abrasive cutter. I will never go back to abrasives again.

 

[dogdog]

in for the info.

 

[Boost Creep]

i use mine all the time. for me its one of those if i knew how nice it was to have i would have bought it years sooner type things

 

[PugetDude]

SWAG makes a nice product but being thrifty (cheap) as I am, I made my own. 1" square tubing, some scrap steel plate and a $2 garage sale vise. Been using it for years. Cuts steel like butter!

Here's mine... Aluminum offcuts from the scrap bin; I think I spent about a buck on the fasteners.

 

[the gypsy]

Here's mine... Aluminum offcuts from the scrap bin; I think I spent about a buck on the fasteners.

Now I must say, I like this idea. I don't like putting the handle in the vise for fear of over-tightening and breaking the handle or even plastic fatigue and breaking.

 

[Trey T]

That's a slick setup PugetDude

 

[scooternut]

The SWAG is a nice setup, i just didn't want to give up the space glad i didn't.

Similar pugetdudes slick setup, just a little smaller with the plate clamped directly in the vise, which is in a nice hitch mount.


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