At this stage of the game I would give the Laguna 14-12 bandsaw a miss. I have just taken delivery of my 240V unit, my first bandsaw, and here are the problems:
1. The 240 Volt auxiliary light was a real after thought, with the cable to be loosely draped along the frame attached by stick on cable clamps. Looks terrible and very unprofessional, and you have to be a hand contortionist to fit it, until I discovered you have to lower the upper blade guide holder. Some information in the manual would have been helpful. No shakeproof washers were supplied, so I expect it to work its way loose in time if I don't do something.
2. My new 3/4" bimetal blade with hook teeth won't track properly. It sits in the middle of the top flywheel, but on the bottom flywheel the points of the teeth extend past the outer rim.
3. Probably associated with the above problem, the blade is noisily rubbing against the plastic blanking block just under the table
4. The ceramic guides are very flimsy to adjust. You touch them each against the blade, as per the manual, tighten them up and find they have moved position. I find they have rotated in the horizontal plane, so that one ceramic block is jammed against the blade, and the other has moved well away from the blade.
5. There is no positive micro adjustment for adjusting the guides. On both the left and right side guides there are two ceramic guides, parallel upper and lower pieces. When you put the guides against the blade and tighten, with the guides at a point just below the gullet, the guide swivels in the vertical plane so that the end of the upper ceramic is touching the gullet and the lower ceramic is moved well back from the gullet.
6. the mobility kit front wheel is a real pain to fit. Needs a 150mm long 5mm T bar to reach the holding bolts located behind the wheel - an ordinary Allen key will just not reach
7. The poor quality casting ( to which the fence is bolted) that slides over the chrome fence guide will not travel the full length because numerous dags from the casting hit the fence guide support spacers. So you get a fence with very limited travel.
8. The chromed fence guide projects way past the table boundary, and is a constant source of bruising as you bump into it.
9. It is just about impossible to get the blade, the fence and the mitre slot all lined up, even after using the blade tracking knob. It just won't happen on this bandsaw, and I don't know what to do about it
10. The customer service response is consistent with its reputation - absolutely no response to my calls for help, so my new expensive bandsaw just sits there not being used until the blade tracking and rubbing problem is sorted, if ever