Join your local woodturners group. I bet you'll find someone there
that either has a good lathe for sale, or even better knows a great
place to buy a used one.

I bought my Delta midi lathe from a member of my woodturners group here
in Cheney for $200. I saved $100 and got a fairly new lathe. It had
only been used about 20 hours before I bought it.

I have an old lathe someone gave me a while ago. I used it to learn
on. It's from 1981 and was killing my fingers. When I first tried my
delta I was amazed at how much easier it was to turn on and the end
product was so much better that my old WL-800 that I think was bought
at Harbor Freight.

So did you already buy the lathe, if so what did you get? How do you
like it?

John Patrick
www.birdoasis.com