Makita LB1200F review

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.

What the specification says

900 W. Part number LB1200F. Makita publishes little else on this listing.

The finding worth reading

This is the first product on this site that carries two different Amazon references in Europe: one in Germany, another shared by Britain, France, Italy and Spain. Both resolve to the same barcode, so it is unambiguously the same machine.

That distinction is invisible on any site that hard-codes a single Amazon link. A French reader following a German reference lands on a page that does not exist in their store, and the affiliate link earns nothing while the reader assumes the product is unavailable. It is exactly the kind of quiet failure this site is built to avoid, and it is why every product here stores a reference per market rather than one reference for the world.

What “resaw” means, and why most of these cannot

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.

At 900 W this is on the right side of that line, though Makita does not publish the resaw height — confirm it with a dealer if that is why you are buying.