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I am in Virginia moving to Bangor, Maine. I would prefer excellent condition. If I have to get some parts I will I can still get them if Bushton ever answers the phone and replies to emails. better the quality the more I will pay. If its a long distance deal I could use some help. The better the saw the more I will pay.

Adjustable blade aggression and smooth as can be and very quiet. Not a lot of front table room and the dust collector could use a better design. Love the adjustable hold down foot and throat length. The long heavy arm does wear your shoulder and back out after an 8 hour day cutting. Its worth the money though. Until you have to make repairs to all that linkage. Good saw though.

Love this thing. Huge table. Works smooth on wood floors. Very effective bellows. Never loses cutting power. Changing speed with the belts is as easy as a rheostat controller on your variable speed. Belt replacement requires no tools. And is very easy to do and also a rare thing to do. Its fast, smooth quiet and a pleasure to use. The motor underneath is an ac motor and does get hot and the upper blade chuck is a bit heavy but it works. The stroke is 1” and straight up and down and the upper blade holder allows some adjustment to alter the blade aggression. The lower blade holder would be nicer if it could stay in the bottom holder when doing small fret work pieces. But I love this thing. Mine has over 3000 hours on it. I did replace my accessory arm as my blade chucks wore it out. That could have a machined slot for stainless to make it last forever. Table tilts very easily and the hold down foot is nearly perfect. Meaning when cutting flat its perfect. Heavy and holds your work down but allows freedom of motion. I wish it would also tilt with the table i love using the feet my work always cuts so much better. If you can get a used one or the sakura and incest in parts which are affordable i recommend it. 4.5 stars.

Very enjoyable. Heres my pros and cons PROS smooth, quiet, fast cutter, perfect blade stroke CONS Replacing the belt sucks and I would like a rear cam only for this one for the blade tension. If the belt replacement was better easy 4 stars hands down.

Looking to purchase a Hawk G4 in primo condition. I want it unaltered. Example. No extra holes in the base or arms or any weird modifications to it. Prefer it closer to me if possible and willing to pay good money. I am having troubles getting a new Hawk. Anyone interested in making a sale?

I HAVE SEEN A BELT DRIVEN HAWK AND AN AC MOTOR HAWK WITH VARIABLE SPEED. FIRST WERE THE ALL RED BELT DRIVES THEN THEY MADE THINGS LIKE THE JUNIOR HAWK ETC. THEN CAME THE MODELS KNOWN AS 220 ETC THEN CAME THE 220 VS MODELS THEN THE G4 THEN THERE IS A GAP AND IM NOT QUITE SURE WHAT EXACTLY WAS MADE WHEN BUSHTON GOT AHOLD OF THE COMPANY THEN THERE WAS ESSENTIALLY THE AMERICAN G4 WITH MODIFIED HEAVIER MOTOR AND METAL BLADE HOLDERS. IF ANYONE HAS A G4 THOUGH ID LOVE TO HEAR HOW WELL THEY LIKE IT.

For my long long projects that are thin and need that small spiral blade and I want mover a little quicker this is the saw i use. I do however prefer the constant tension parallel arm systems for those long long days of cutting like my ps wood 21 inch. Lifting and lowering that arm is felt on the lower back and I run my saw perfectly flat and level with no forward tilt. I put the pegas chucks on mine and adjusted the motor for a less agressive stroke and its been great. I want the black pegas table on it though. Mine is worn out and Id like that all black look on it. Ive found the MGT blades and the ps wood blades work best in this saw for faster tighter turning scroll work that isnt extremely delicate. My weapon of choice for spirals is the niqua new spiral. As far as spirals go thats all i use because of the surface finish inside the cuts. I like the little details.

Hello there I own everything but a hegner. Still working on the guts to buy another saw. I have a 30 inch excelsior, 3 hawk vs systems, a sakura 21, ps wood 14, pswood 21,old c arm delta. i used to also own a 21 inch woodtek same as this saw and a 2 other hawks. This saw is my go to saw. I recieved my saw early 2018 and in about 14 months put 4000 hours on it. I was hurt in an accident and this is how i earned my money. It has a 1 inch stroke and the speed change though it is belts is so easy to change. It can work with a foot switch though i prefer to use the one mounted on it. It is very smooth and quiet. I have tried to kill it with some big blades above 12 that i got from woodcraft and it wont stop. There is a drive belt and speed belt which makes this possible. It is a tank. It is not perfect but no saw is. I made the loc line longer and i use my foot on every cut unless it something extremely i mean extremely delicate. With a longer loc line i can keep my blower up out of my way of incoming projects and out of the way of the foot tensioning knob. The blower not only blows away my dust and cools myblade but it blows the dust under the rear of the foot! I love it. It could naturally come with a longer loc line though. I found that having about 15 extra lower blade holders speed things up drastically. The table tilts smoothly without binding. Ive found all my hawks to bind up when moving the table. The upper blade system works good but if done in the wrong order can break and it is in my opinion too heavy and could be improved. Removing the lower blade holder and flipping your wood over to insert the blade can get old after a while and an option to keep it retained would be great but it isnt a deal breaker after all I adore my saw. The head is adjustable slightly and you can control the aggression slightly. Now it has a very verticle blade stroke. When I want an absolutely perfect stroke with no and i mean no blade deflection front to back I go old school and mount the old heads in the top and just use the wrench and the performance then even increases. It seems to run better and better the more i use it. I dont like how the lower blade holders wear out the accessory arm though. After 4000 hours i had to replace mine. The arm is aluminum and needs inconel or stainless imbedded in it to last. But 4000 hours thats 10 years for some people. It does seem to prefer the olson pgt blades because of how robust they are. However i prefer the ps wood blades but this saw full blast and me pushing makes them break but they are worth the price if your a fast scroller and want a perfect polished edge, faster speed and tighter turns. Dont worry about not having reverse teeth beacuse the proper speed of the blade and cut speed eliminate the under fuzz almost completely and in some cases yes I have not had any. The motor is strong however i dont like it because it gets so hot you cant touch it. My sakura is the same way and so are the other saws of this design. A baldor tenv motor would be super cool. A shop stool sits at the perfect height for this saw. All in all I love it and currently its at my other house with all the others packed away to be delivered to the new house. In my opinion after learning on a hegner with the quick change and owning so many hawks and always wanting that polycut 3 this saw with better head design and accessory arm and cooler running motor would beat the hegner. If your an intarsia artist or make bowles or word art and do minimal spiral blade pictures this saw is for you! However if you want to use only spirals like Charles Dearing this saw will frustrate you. But hey $800 bucks and it will last you a lifetime and they have fast service and parts on hand and the service is top notch! If any questions about this saw please reach out. Oh also i bought an extra table one for metal and one for everything else. Enjoy the read I hope this helps someone.. And if you find one used its a safe buy the worst that can happen is the motor capacitor goes out. Its like 10 dollars and 2 screws to replace it. No expensive operating costs.!!!! Bye Friends.