Logosol or Norwood band mill

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11 hours ago, topchippyles said:

Answered your own question really trig.

Not really Les. Im basing my point of view on having ever owned one Bandsaw Mill and others, primarily American, have very mixed reviews on the Norwood. But finding reviews on the Logosol is very far and few between so getting a genuine comparison is difficult.

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1 hour ago, Squaredy said:

I bought the Norwood HD36 new in about 2016.  With hindsight I should have saved up just a bit more for a manual Woodmizer (which is what I have now).  The Norwood is so badly designed and built it is amazing it is still being sold.  Also as you say the ceramic guide rollers were dreadful.  
 

Parts were incredibly expensive, so I would always try and source them other than from the agent.  The ceramic guide rollers were about £600 just for one set for example, which you might knacker in a week.

 

 And don’t get me started on the assembly - 170 pages of instructions if I remember rightly - and not all of that was accurate.

 

Woodmizer on the other hand was nearly fully assembled, and the quality is far superior.  Parts are also very reasonable - little point in shopping around as they are already not bad.  So far (one year on) no complaints about the Woodmizer - oh except the little spring which enables the setworks computer to detect up and down movement of the saw head.  But so far the dealer has sent me new ones very quickly under warranty and been very helpful about suggesting ways to try and stop the part failing.

 

 Chalk and cheese as far as I am concerned.  And yet the difference in price was only about ten percent.  £7150 vs £8000 or thereabouts.   I then later added the setworks computer and debarker to the Woodmizer.  Actually I am not comparing like with like as the Norwood was Petrol powered but the Woodmizer is electric.

Thankyou for the in depth review. That seals it for me, I'll not be getting the Norwood.