Well, I have had my Hawk for a few weeks now. If I had to choose between the Hawk or the Hegner, I would keep the Hegner. Tensioning and clamps are so much simpler and less cumbersome than the Hawk. Hawk is a good saw, not sorry I have it, but it seems to me they could have done better on the clamps. Tensioning is not hard to figure out, but a whole lot more parts than the Hegner and does not seem necessary to me. The only real plus that the Hawk has over the Hegner is the table size.