My Laguna 18BX Bandsaw: What I Love and What I Don't 

Thanks for great review. Short note on the extractors, Axminster extractors are sold with ratings in Cubic Meters per Hour (M³/h), not the USA standard Cubic Feet per Minute (Ft³/min better known as CFM) AW82E is 1050M³/h which is about 618CFM, likely why you're feeling it's a little under powered. The AW153E is about 1012CFM though so for anyone considering this the extra £80 for the next size up extractor should be fine. Looks for anything that's over 1700M³/h.

When I grow up and become an adult, I want one of these!!!! Looks a lovely bit of kit that Leo

I really love my 18bx. Just bought the supermax 37x2 and can’t wait to get it home !!! Laguna has been great so far !

What A cool bandsaw...

Glad to see you back Leo 👍

Great review Leo and Really good to see you up and about. 👍🏾

Thank you for sharing! 😊

Welcome back Leo… very nice to see you again

Great to see you in the shop again.

Great video, enjoyed watching it

Awesome machine

Cheers Leo. I think you have helped me make my mind up about the 14bx

It's a beast.

Hi Leo, great to see you smiling. Never mind the content your videos always make me smile and remember how lucky I am to have two working hands. Mike

Nice video love it ❤

Great video bought one you give great fair reviews thanks

Great review 👍

Excellent review, Leo! I have had the 14BX for 2+ years. Agree that the foot break is so great. The power and capacity was good enough for me. I have a Laguna 1 HP BFlux I have used for this and my planer and it has worked fine. Sounds like more HP is needed for the larger capacity 18BX. Welcome back!

I flippin’ love Laguna stuff. I’m not buying another tablesaw until I can get a Laguna (fingers crossed). The Laguna Uk chaps should be able to get involved with that blade guard thingy, they seem like top blokes.

That is some bandsaw with a 3hp (2400-3000 watts) I bet it's got some go in it. The foot break it's a must, Good safety feature ,I would love a saw like that I think you got a good one mate. It' good to see you back Leo, hope you are doing well .A good review ,You take care and see the next video 😃😃🪚🪚🪚👍👍👍

Great stuff. Would love one of those. Any plans to make any bandsaw boxes? I love making them but they are hard work on my cheapo benchtop scheppach 😅

Looks like a great saw. I checked the price, and it's out of my price range. I'm saving for the record power sabre 350.

For the price they charge I'd expect it to absolutely perfect and I'd be expecting them to fix things if they weren't working properly ... thanks for a no nonsense review of it 👍 Needless to say, I don't have that sort of money, but I do have the ability to build my own with similar specs for a shed load less 😀

Leo - Good luck waiting for a replacement part from Laguna. I agree that they make some stellar equipment but their customer service stinks to high heaven. I watched you install your blade one handed prior to installing the blade on my 18bx. When I engaged the tension handle the block on the bottom of the upper wheel broke. They refused to replace the part under warranty. The company where I purchased is working with me to get the part replaced which I'm guessing is at their cost given the comments I've heard from other Laguna buyers and their experience when attempting to get warranty replacements. Now I get the pleasure of tearing apart my brand new 18bx to replace the broken part before I can saw my first piece of wood on the saw. For those of you singing the praises of Laguna, thank your lucky stars you've not dealt with their customer service. I'm an upbeat/positive person and I bought my first and last piece of Laguna equipment with this bandsaw just based on their poor customer service for such a high priced piece of equipment.

I'm convinced any chance Carl could do us a discount seeing as we are the uk shed of the year for 2023

Very interesting and I cried a little when I looked back at my own tiny bandsaw but that's life I guess. Have you tried reducing the size of the outlet hole for extraction - a bit like a smaller vac nozzle increases suction (hplv) - to pull out the heavier particles? I've had some success with using a narrower pipe to increase sucking power on some machines.

Leo i would be gratefull if you could hilght my post concerning your Mirka Deros as i had problems with mine but my post might help owners who own one which is out of warranty and don't want to pay a £200 repair bill here is what i wrote Don't know if this will help but i bought the Deros and used it for 4-5 years so out of warranty. Then it started playing up then one day (using the 125mm pad) it would stop working one Minuit it worked then when i pushed the paddle the red light would flash and nothing. So i unplugged left it then it would work then do the same. So went on here watched the videos stripped it down cleaned it but to be honest it wasn't that dusty as i always use my mirka dust extractor. Ran it with no pad worked fine then put the 125mm pad back on used it same thing happened. So more videos and research stripped it down again only this time i removed the plastic cover that surrounds the spindle (can't think its name) cleaned the fins which again wasn't that dusty put it back together only this time instead of the 125mm pad i put the 150mm pad on (less used) and it works now (i will keep u updated) Conclusion the only thing i can add is in one of the posts i saw said when somebody had a similar problem was they noticed the pad was worn but initially i wrote this off as when has a sander stopped working due to a pad. However i don't know whether my slightly worn 125mm pad has some how interfered with the brake that slows the machine down when you release the paddle or was it the cleaning that sorted it which i doubt as it was quite clean anyway hope this helps.

CFM stands for cubic feet per minute of air movement

I would imagine with that design using both extraction ports you probably need a higher pressure extractor as there is nowhere for the air to enter the case from except the blade slot so no air flow. It would be very interesting to see what happened if you left the top hose port partially open and had full 4" extraction from the bottom as it would allow high speed airflow down through the cabinet and from the blade slot in the table insert and not allow the dust to settle. Using both extraction ports but having a heavily perforated table insert would do a similar thing. I see similar complaints about extraction performance from bench saw users who have installed zero-clearance inserts, effectively sealing up their machine cases, and wonder why their dust extraction performance drops ...

Dude, bandsaws don't have a way to really collect dust - there's a huge open space between the deck and base outlet. Never going to fix that, same as a mitre saw.