Building a workshop in my garage to start making lures. Probably mainly as a winter hobby. Torn on whether to start with a bandsaw or scroll saw. I will have both eventually, but I’m gonna start with one.

 

To the experienced lure-makers, if you could only have one saw for lure making, would you go with a band saw or scroll saw? My thinking it would be easier to use a band saw for the detailed work than it would be to use a scroll saw to cut the shapes themselves, so I’m leaning towards bandsaw.

 

Any recommendations are appreciated. 

I’m a woodworker by hobby. Band saw 100%. A scroll saw would be beneficial for cutting stuff out of say the middle of a blank. I would not want to cut any significant amount of material with a scroll saw. The size of the blade makes a scroll saw inefficient for cutting a blank out of a bigger size. You have to feed the wood in much slower with the small size of the scroll saw blade. With a bandsaw, you have adjustable guides that help with deflection of the blade thus allowing you to feed the stock faster (still slower than saw a table saw though). A bandsaw is also effective in resawing the wood to the correct (close) thickness. 

@Smirak thank you, I appreciate the detailed response!

@Smirak nailed it.