Fragging acans

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Hey guys,

I am looking into fragging acans. It looks like there is multiple ways to do it, but I believe the best is to use some time of band saw to cut carefully and cleanly around the heads.

My question is what is a decent affordable saw and blade to do this with?

Is there better methods? Please share.
 

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Probably the most common 2 are the inland bandsaw @ about $250 and the gryphon saw @ about $380. I have the inland and it works great. The gryphon is supposedly better quality and they just came out with a new model that retails over $400. And it has a large clearance for cutting big pieces

Hope this helps.
 

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Bandsaw or if the colony is large, go to town on it. They will recover in due time. Use some sort of dip as well to help prevent infection.
 
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I watched a video of some one using a Dremel seemed like a band saw is a much better idea for it...
 

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anyone use the dremel with diamond saw?
Dremel can work for acans that don't have a lot of skeleton but if you have little or no experience using one, you can easily overheat the coral, burn it and ultimately kill it.
 

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