+1 for the Sheppach band saw from Aldi.

It is made in Germany, all metal construction (apart from the drive wheel covers) it is fairly quiet, has 6 speeds, and cuts surprisingly accurately.

My only criticism is the work holding clamp, which doesn't always hold stock squarely.

Overall for £115 it is a bargain and recommended

It says only the word "Germany" in big letters on my box. In much smaller letters it says "made in China".

I think £115 says it all.

It looks like you may have radically misconstrued my contribution to this thread, Steve.

Hi, I don’t know any better as I purchased one having no experience of such a device. It has been a revelation having this in the workshop. As per a previous posting it fits under my bench out of the way and is simply moved up when required. It has saved me hours of cutting and angle cutting discs. I love it. I did look as some ‘better machines’ as recommended by posters on here and I’m sure they are superior. However, they were quite a few hundred quid more which I can’t justify. As previously stated the clamping mechanism is limited in what it can deal with. Maybe sometime in the future I will adapt it. For now every time I’ve managed to get around its limitations. It gets a big thumbs up from me.

Been thinking about buying one of these band saws for a while now, one thing I'd like to know is do they have the ability to be used in a similar fashion as conventional band saw? i.e a small table that a work piece can be manually fed into the blade as some other portable saws seem to have

Guy