Thread: New Saw Advice

Yeah the price differences are a major irritation to me. I bought an airbrush and some other stuff from the US about 12 months ago for US$350 but got hit with a nz$300 duty/gst thought id got myself a bargain, turns out not so much.

Mtech - getting back to the saws........

I bought a small JET tablesaw several years ago, but if I were buying again I'd be looking for a couple of features mine doesn't have.

(1) riving knife that rises and falls with the blade, rather than a fixed splitter

(2) a good fence (mine is OK, but could be better)

(3) Some form of small sliding table for crosscutting, with a fence that swings out of the way easily when ripping.

I appreciate that you probably don't get much choice in NZ, so it might be tricky to find all these features on one saw !

Thanks Mr Brush I will be on the lookout for these features that you recommend.

Mtech, if you keep your overseas purchase (including postage) to under NZ$400 you're unlikely to get charged extra by customs. However, until recently I'd somehow managed to avoid paying anything extra, even on a NZ$2000 plus purchase! So it would appear there might also be a certain amount of luck involved as they don't check every package that is imported.