Resawing & curves · review
The most consistently priced saw on this page — around €160 to €175 everywhere in Europe — with ball-bearing guides at that money.
The end of it The sensible first band saw. Bearings and a quick blade change matter more, at this price, than a capacity figure would.
Every figure is a manufacturer specification, read off the listing itself, and the judgments are ours — drawn from how the specification behaves in this class of machine and from what long-term owners consistently report. Where a figure is missing, we say so rather than fill it in.
Tool-free blade change, ball-bearing guides, a rip fence, table height adjustment and a tilting table. Einhell does not publish the cut height or the throat depth on this listing, which is the omission worth knowing before you order.
Resawing is splitting a board through its thickness — turning one 50 mm (1.97 in) plank into two 22 mm (0.87 in) ones. It is the job a band saw does that no other machine can, and it is the reason serious workshops own one.
It needs three things at once: enough height under the guides, a frame stiff enough to tension a wide blade, and enough power to keep the blade moving through a long cut. A saw with 80 mm (3.15 in) of height cannot resaw anything worth resawing, however good it is at curves — and most saws sold as band saws under €300 are in that group. That is not a fault; it is a different machine, and the listings rarely say so.
They are the two that decide whether a cheap band saw is usable.
Ball-bearing guides hold the blade steady from the sides and behind. Blocks do it by friction, wear as they work, and need resetting; bearings do not. On a €165 machine, having bearings is genuinely unusual.
Tool-free blade change decides which blade is fitted. A band saw is only as good as the blade on it, and the correct blade changes with every job — narrow for curves, wide for straight, coarse for thick. When changing takes two wrenches and ten minutes, one compromised blade stays on for a year.
No such listing: the American Amazon shop answers the reference with a search box rather than a page.
Read from Keepa on the day this page was last revised; stock and price both move without notice.
Prices quoted in this text were read on 2026-08-12. The live price is at the top of the page.
| Blade change | Tool-free |
|---|---|
| Guides | Ball-bearing |
| Fence | Rip fence included |
| Table | Tilting, with height adjustment |
| Amazon reference | B0DBLCY72V (identical on 5 markets) |
| EAN | 4006825679106 |
They support the blade against sideways and backwards force. Friction blocks do the same job by rubbing, which means heat, wear and a blade that must be re-set as the blocks erode. Bearings are the reason a cheap saw can hold a line as well as an expensive one — and they are usually the first thing cut from the specification below this price.
Whenever the job changes. That is the whole point of a tool-free change: a narrow blade for curves, a wide one for straight cuts, a coarse one for thick stock. Saws where changing takes ten minutes and two wrenches end up running one compromised blade for everything.
A listing is not an offer: the reference exists on these stores, availability changes daily.
7.5/ 10
The sensible first band saw. Bearings and a quick blade change matter more, at this price, than a capacity figure would.
A first band saw, where the ability to change blades quickly matters more than capacity
Specifications: the manufacturer sheet for woodworking machines and the matching Amazon product page. Prices and availability: Keepa. Every figure on this page names its source.
Einhell · 245 class · €264 in Germany
A bigger Einhell than the 200/1 at about €100 more — and a listing that says almost nothing about what the extra buys.
Best for: A buyer who has confirmed the capacities with Einhell and wants the larger frame
250 W · 80 mm (3.15 in) height · 190 mm (7.48 in) throat
A small curve-cutting saw that publishes every figure it has — and those figures say plainly that it is not a resaw machine.
Best for: Curves, small parts and model work — the jobs a jigsaw does badly
900 W · two different references in Europe
A serious Makita band saw — and the first product on this site that is sold under two different Amazon references depending on the country.
Best for: A workshop buying its last band saw rather than its first
