In my wood shop budget, a band saw was never factored in because I don't see it as part of the most essential tools. I do plan to get one in the future though. Now this may sound a bit sketchy, but I thought up a potential jig for a saber saw table. I couldn't find anything on the internet about it, likely because it's a crazy idea. But I thought I would mount my saber saw underneath a cheap table and use that as a band saw. It's got a setting to lock the trigger down, so I can keep it running.
The reason I would prefer to have it table mounted is so I can easily use a fence and have better vision of a blade. I'm sure though there are probably fences for portable saber saws, as they have them for circular saws, but I feel a table fence would work better. The things I would need it for are mainly rough cutting my raw material that's wider than my jointer. I would also probably attempt to use it to resaw boards and cut curves.
So is this just a bad/overly-crazy idea, or does this idea actually have something to it?