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Through Thursday, SS has on sale its bandsaw (which I have) and bandsaw accessories. See here. I do not have the table fence, table extension, or circle cutter, and those three are on sale at a $45 discount. Any comments on how useful those three SS accessories are? Thanks, Hank.

I probably use the fence and or table extension on 40+% of the cuts I make. I don't use the circle cutter often, but when you need it, it is a champ. Right after I got it, my son in law, who was installing windows at the time, needed a custom arched moulding for a window. Drag out the unit onto the patio (no room to swing a 4' chunk of 1 x 12 in the garage), play with the setup, cut perfect 3.5 foot arches.
Process was: cut inner curve, route profile, cut outer curve to free moulding. Did 6 of them in about an hour, including set up, experiment, cut and clean up.

Go for it! It is certainly a great deal!

hjlssfor1 wrote:Through Thursday, SS has on sale its bandsaw (which I have) and bandsaw accessories. See here. I do not have the table fence, table extension, or circle cutter, and those three are on sale at a $45 discount. Any comments on how useful those three SS accessories are? Thanks, Hank.

I used the circle cutter but once. Tricky to set up, worked like a charm. Extension is great.
Fence-- I bought the new table and the fence, Ext., Circle with it. Just got it all installed and settled in and they put the Kreg fence on sale. Had just enuf $ in The Fund, so went crazy on it.
[A SS Forum member got the 'old' brand-new fence.]
The SS fence was very good, very useable, very worthwhile, imho.
I am sooooo glad I was able to splurge on the Kreg fence (system). It makes the Band Saw a precision instrument.

So, imho, the BS Accessories you mention are all good.