Please spend more money to get a good band saw band. They work very well for about 20 or 30 cuts and then go to hell. I substituted the standard 1/8 inch blade so I could make rip cuts on the white oak I had. One of them flies apart in the weld. The blade cut well enough that I thought the first was an accident and got the second. The same thing happened after about 20 cuts. I put on a small thin blade and it worked for 100 cuts now.