american made general
On 10/4/2016 6:20 PM, Electric Comet wrote:
On Tue, 4 Oct 2016 16:32:18 -0600
graham wrote:
General was a CANADIAN company with the foundry in Quebec. It was
sold and became General International and the foundry (like
Powermatic) was closed and all the stuff under the new brand is made
in China and Taiwan. If you look at the photos, you will see a Maple
Leaf flag on it. Graham
yeah the flag is why i recalled the mention here of being made in canada
and with the gap bed it is more versatile
a nice lathe
I started watching a video on deep hollow turning by David Ellsworth in
1994. He was then using a General 260.
Graham
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