Received with free shipping++ was packed exceptionally well. Set up was a breeze. Definitely need to add it to my dust collection loop before really using it. I will update this review if anything adverse pops up.

This was my first purchase with Harvey. If you know of the company, you know they have pricing strategy where they seem to focus on playing games with numbers while trying to create hype and impulse purchases. I wish that they would mature professionally and evovle to focus on building trust with customers based on quality products and a exceptional purchasing experience.

The bandsaw was ordered and shipped with great efficiency. Their shipping company, which is honestly Harvey's front door, was exceptional.

Packing of the saw was perfect. Everything arrived without the slightlest buckle of cardboard or shifting inside the box. Far better than I would have expected.

The saw went together easily with caveats. I read the manual but found it inadeaquate. Youtube had several "influencers" posting videos on the assembly. These were helpful, but the whole influencer product placement thing coupled with the pricing model is just one of the pills you have to swallow when dealing with Harvey. I suspect the business model in the corporate headquarters works with thin staff focused on fullfilling orders. That's great; adds values. Much of the marketing is getting product into influencers hands. What is missing is some dedicated people expanding and user-testing the user manuals.

But all and all, the saw is great. The price point means it's is top gear with some roughness on the polish of all of support materials (website, emails, manuals, etc). So if you are comformtable piecing together the base nowledge from multiple source, it's great bang for the buck.

From deliver to resawing was 3 hrs and 15 minutes. Wonderful tool. Connecting the table yo the trunions was a bit troublesome. On bad side I was told to expect delivery on 14 Sep but it got here on 27 September. Worth the wait but I am glad I took a production pause

Best tool ever!

ALPHA HW615P 3HP 15" Band Saw

Didn’t appreciate having to pay an extra 70.00 to ove it into the garage from the sidewalk16feet Now then the ALPHA HW615P 3HP from packaging to assembly was First Class Look forward to many years of awesome performance Special thanks to Mikey in Customer Support

The most awesome bandsaw I’ve used!
Easy to tune up so you get very accurate straight and parallel cuts. Quiet and powerful. A pleasure to use, with awesome fit and finish!

This is a powerful saw and has a great resaw capacity. Even using the stock blade, it seems to work well. I had to do some adjustments to get the saw aligned. Some issues: First, the table itself needed to be twisted a bit to align the slot with the blade. I need to get the Bandsaw buddy to verify that it needs to be this far out. I'm hoping my alignment is just incorrect. Second, I would love to see an integrated single port dust collection port that connects to both upper and lower ports. I had to purchase several connectors and a Y to connect both ports to one hose. Now i have too much hanging off the saw and those connectors stick out a bit. I'll still try to adjust and try different configs, but would love to see that solved at the factory. Third, the ruler x-ray film (measuring "glass") broke right out of the package as it is cheap plastic. I would like to see this as a metal frame with real glass. Also, it needs to be closer to the tape to ensure you can read it properly. Shifting angles will shift the view of the tape. And last, the table insert has a locking swivel on the bottom of the insert. It is almost impossible to turn that to lock the insert into place. I'll probably never lock it down because of how hard it is to do. Minor issues compared to the beautiful resaw that I was able to do. But issues nonetheless.

This is the last bandsaw I will ever need. I've owned two Grizzly bandsaws and got tired of ordering parts and overly difficult blade changes. The Harvey is amazingly smooth and pretty quiet (for a bandsaw). The fit and finish are beyond comparison. I absolutely recommend the 615 or the Ambassador

I came into my wife's craft room one Saturday, held up a piece of cedar and said, "I can't cut this. I've tried, and I have no way to do it."
I have a nice table saw and several other machines (including a dust collector that should have been the G700 but unfortunately I cheaped out and regret it), but I could not cut that piece of wood the way I wanted to cut it because the tool for it was a bandsaw and I didn't own one.
So, when I started looking at different bandsaws, although there were cheaper ones, I really didn't feel that most of them were worth the 50-percent less cost of the Harvey Alpha series. And when I compared apples to apples, Harvey was the superior apple every single time... the Alpha apple.

I took that apple. I bit that apple. It tasted amazing.

The bandsaw has been spectacular thus far. I had no idea the fence was so beefy, which was a pleasant surprise. The power is clearly there. The quality of the whole machine is second to none because not only is it tough, it's also machined well. Everything fits together like a glove and operates smoothly.

Just to throw a con in there, a tiny bad spot in the apple, if you will, the directions weren't great. They could have done a better job of explaining the bearings adjustment and how it works (different from other bandsaws but very nice, once you understand it). Also, the power cord is annoyingly short. It doesn't reach an outlet six feet away and three feet up the wall, even diagonally.

Those gripes are small. The HW615P gets a 10 out of 10, 5 stars, A+ rating from me! Now, if only I had bought the G700 and not been such a dummy, my shop would be complete.