DEWALT 20V MAX XR Bandsaw

Is the DEWALT 20V MAX XR Bandsaw worth buying?

The DEWALT 20V MAX XR Bandsaw at £398.53 is worth buying if your cutting happens on site, away from a socket, and you want a brushless machine you can carry at 4.91 kg. It scores 4.8 from 272 owners, the highest rating of the ten saws ranked for 2026, and its brushless motor puts out 535W at 570 SFPM for demanding commercial work.

It is not worth the money if the saw never leaves a bench. The same £398.53 buys 130 mm of cut height and a 245 mm throat in a corded Scheppach HBS261, with a battery and charger you do not have to buy on top. Buy this one for where you cut, not for how deep.

How deep can the DEWALT 20V MAX XR Bandsaw cut?

It cuts 3-3/8 inches, which is 86 mm across the work, and the variable speed trigger and dial let you slow the blade when a material fights back. A built-in LED lights the cutting surface, so you can follow a marked line in a dim corner of a site.

Depth per pound is where it loses ground. £398.53 for 86 mm works out at 0.22 mm of cut height per pound, the lowest ratio of the ten saws ranked for 2026 and roughly a third of the 0.67 mm per pound the £119 Scheppach HBS25 returns. You are not buying depth here, you are buying a cordless tool that travels, at 4.91 kg.

What comes in the box with the DEWALT 20V MAX XR Bandsaw?

The box holds the saw and nothing else. It arrives as a bare tool, so there is no 20V battery and no charger in it, which makes £398.53 the start of the cost rather than the finish, and you need DEWALT 20V MAX packs at home to run it on day one.

The machine measures 42.7 x 31.1 x 19.8 cm and weighs 4.91 kg, so it goes into a tool bag or hangs from a lanyard point on a scaffold. An 8 inch alloy steel blade with 24 teeth spins on it, the handle is plastic, and a chip pocket takes a Tool Connect module, sold separately, for tracking the tool on a job.

Where does the DEWALT 20V MAX XR Bandsaw fall short?

Three things weigh on the decision. The 86 mm capacity is 41 mm less than the £169 Scheppach MBS1200, which cuts 127 x 127 mm from the mains, so thick stock and large profiles are out of reach. The bare-tool packaging adds the price of a battery and charger before the saw turns a wheel, and 272 owners is a small sample next to the 1,434 behind the Scheppach HBS261.

It also brings no table, no fence and no mitre gauge of its own, so repeat straight cuts depend on the jig you build around it. An 8 inch blade is short by bench standards, and the integrated blade guard protects the blade rather than giving you a surface to push a board against.

DEWALT or Scheppach: which bandsaw should you buy?

Against the Scheppach HBS25 at £119, the DEWALT costs £279.53 more and cuts 6 mm deeper, 86 mm against 80 mm, while weighing 4.91 kg against 14.8 kg. The Scheppach is the better buy for a garage bench, because a corded machine needs no battery and its 300 x 300 mm table holds the work while you feed it.

Against the Scheppach MBS1200 at £169, the DEWALT costs £229.53 more and gives 41 mm less capacity, 86 mm against a 127 x 127 mm square, though the MBS1200 is corded at 1200W and weighs 13.6 kg. Pick the MBS1200 if the work stays in the workshop, and the DEWALT if the cut has to happen up a ladder or in a stairwell.