[Woodcarver] Choosing a Bandsaw

[Karl Allison]

I'm in the process of making my Christmas list, it's going to be a 
bandsaw, I'm done trying to saw cutouts with a scroll saw.  The 
choices I'm looking at are the Ryobi sold by Home Depot and the Delta 
sold by Lowes.  Both are 9 inch units and both are priced at $87.  I 
don't have room for a larger unit and have used a friends Ryobi and 
it seems to do just find for the size figures that I carve.  Believe 
these are the same units that sold for $129 a couple years ago.

Any comments on the pro and con's of the two bandsaws will be appreciated.

Karl