A 14" Rikon, Laguna, or Grizzly welded steel (not cast) frame will do everything you need to do on a guitar. They will resaw tops, backs, and sides including exotic hard stuff like rosewood, hard maple, oak, Osage.... but they really aren't powerful or stiff enough to do volume resaw work.
The cast steel 14" band saw will do everything except for resawing backs out of hard exotic hardwoods, hard maple, oak, Osage orange and stuff like this. You can kinda do it - but it takes a lot of time consuming setup and it goes really really slow.... They will resaw mahogany and woods in its class with a riser block much better. They are more flexible than the welded steel models. For bindings, necks, head and tail blocks, bridges, and fretboard blanks - they are fine.
If you have the money and space - an 18"+ saw makes everything easier... But they are huge and won't run on 110.....
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