To answer the doubters, no, you don't need a Byrnes table saw to build ship models and for slightly less money other relatively adequate 3" or 4" table saws are available on the market, but there are a lot of things a Jim Saw will do with far greater repeatable accuracy to tolerances to thousandths of an inch than any other table saw on the market and with far more power than any similarly sized saw on the market. (There's a world of difference between cutting basswood and balsa and cutting boxwood, hard maple, ebony, holly and other fine-grained hardwoods.) If one has need for such a machine in a production environment, it's a bargain at the retail prices charged. $4,250 on the used market is certainly a record from what I've ever seen, and, because it seems nobody knows when or if production will start back up on Byrnes Model Machines, used examples have been selling for more than retail for some time now. Perhaps the purchaser required one for his business and getting one now at that price made perfect sense to them. Those of us who were thought crazy to "blow" a grand on the "Byrnes Trifecta," the table saw, thickness sander, and disk sander back when the three could be had for that now seem to have made quite a good investment. If anybody still thinks this price is insane, let's just watch and see how many are offered for sale on eBay hereafter. You'd expect when word gets out about this purchase price, people who have them sitting on a shelf unused for years might be inspired to similarly list them. However, from all indications up to now, guys that have them aren't turning loose of them until they're pried from their stiff dead hands.
On the other hand, at about the same time, a "stripped down basic" Jim Saw sold on eBay for $99. 50 ! As much a steal as the other was a bonanza! See: https://www.ebay.com/itm/3754555843...w6RE15yGlhpu4umnyAMX4FlQ==|tkp:Bk9SR4yQhdeOZA
If anybody has any inside information on why production hasn't resumed yet after Jim's sad passing nine months ago, or, better yet, when it's going to start back up, let everybody know. There's a big line of customers waiting outside Byrnes' factory door as I hear it.
On the other hand, at about the same time, a "stripped down basic" Jim Saw sold on eBay for $99. 50 ! As much a steal as the other was a bonanza! See: https://www.ebay.com/itm/3754555843...w6RE15yGlhpu4umnyAMX4FlQ==|tkp:Bk9SR4yQhdeOZA
If anybody has any inside information on why production hasn't resumed yet after Jim's sad passing nine months ago, or, better yet, when it's going to start back up, let everybody know. There's a big line of customers waiting outside Byrnes' factory door as I hear it.
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