RIKON 14 Deluxe review: a full 14 inch resaw (10-1414)

If 14 inches is the bandsaw class you settled on, the RIKON 14 Deluxe reaches it without a corner you find later. This RIKON 14 inch bandsaw runs cast iron wheels on a cast iron trunnion, with no benchtop saw bolted to a floor stand, and the 10-1414 is the current Deluxe, the version with the taller resaw and the second dust port.

Everything here comes from the RIKON datasheet, the live listing, and a cross-check against the other 14 inch saws on the bandsaw shortlist. No shop test sits behind it, so it leads with the numbers and says where they stop.

Resaw capacity

Resaw height is the number that matters on a bandsaw. The RIKON 14 Deluxe gives a full 14 inches under the guides. Some saws put a 14 inch badge on what is really the throat. Here it means 14 inches of board you can stand on edge and cut. Throat depth is 13-5/8 inches, so the width it clears past the frame is close behind.

The catch is the motor. Read the next section before you picture resawing wide slabs all day.

The motor and the circuit

The RIKON deluxe bandsaw runs a 1-3/4 HP TEFC motor, wired for dual voltage at 115 or 230 volt, single phase. Dual voltage is the useful part: you can run it on a 115 volt circuit in a garage and rewire to 230 later without buying a new saw. At 115 volt it draws 14 amps, most of a standard circuit, so give it a dedicated one and keep the dust collector off it.

But 1.75 HP is the same class as the JET JWBS-15, and it makes 14 inches of resaw a ceiling. In hardwood you get there only by slowing the feed. For 6 inch stock it never notices. For a 13 inch hard maple board it wants a sharp, wide blade and a patient hand. A resaw-first shop should pass on it, and what that shop needs is horsepower. A bigger badge fixes nothing.

Blade and guides

It takes a 111 inch blade from 3/16 to 3/4 inch wide, which covers tight curves at the narrow end and resawing at the wide end. The guides are spring loaded and tool-less, so squaring them to a new blade takes fingers and no allen key. That spring-loaded, tool-less pairing sets the Deluxe apart from the 10-324 on RIKON's own comparison grid. It offers two blade speeds, 1,476 and 3,280 ft/min.

Dust collection

The Deluxe carries two dust ports, one 2-1/2 inch and one 4 inch. Pick it for the ports: a bandsaw throws chips in two directions and a single port misses the ones the blade carries up. Run the 4 inch port to your collector and size that collector by the port diameter rather than its motor. Its free-air rating stops counting the moment a hose goes on. If you are still choosing the collector, the cyclone picks are here.

What owners say about the RIKON 14 Deluxe

Owner reports on this exact model are thin. Treat what follows as color and nothing firmer. On one review video, a commenter describes fighting to set the blade tension so it tracks without wandering, which is normal first-day work on any bandsaw and not a fault. Another owner ordered it after a poor run trying to save money on a Harbor Freight saw. Nobody in that small set reported a failure, but the set is small, so the badge here reads documentation only and makes no owner-tested claim.

What we would buy instead

If your work is curves and stock under 8 inches, a smaller saw saves money and floor space and you would never miss the resaw. If your work is wide veneer and slabs, skip every 1.75 HP saw, this one included, and step up to a 3 HP machine like the JET JWBS-18SFX-3 that pulls a wide blade through hardwood without bogging. So the RIKON 14 Deluxe is a properly built 14 inch saw for a shop that resaws sometimes and cuts curves often, on the circuit it already has. Buy it for that, never for daily veneer.