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For Bowls and vases. Some platters.
Not a pen machine. But most everything else. Might do pens.

Martin :-)

On 1/31/2017 5:26 PM, Electric Comet wrote:
On Tue, 31 Jan 2017 10:13:57 -0700
graham wrote:

Those were the days when General still had an operating foundry in
Quebec. Their table saws were superb as were all the other
woodworking machines they made. They were the same quality as
Powermatic when they still had an operating foundry in the US.
Note that that lathe has riser blocks to increase the swing from 12"
to 20".


an interesting idea

it is funny you mention it because when i first looked i wondered why
the headstock was so tall