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Wow, Bill, your shop is great! [ Guests cannot view attachments ] My envy is the same shade of green as that Powermatic mill!

Your lathe is almost the same model as mine, though I see you have the much sought-after v-belt secondary drive. I also see you have a 5C collet chuck for your lathe. I only recently fitted one to my lathe (a Bison) and I don't know how I got along without it.

A Tormach CNC mill? Now I really hate you.   I have a Byrnes table saw like yours, which I don't use very often, but I'm sure you know what an amazing machine it is. The last time I used it was to rip some .045 x .155" Mahogany strips for cylinder lagging.

I see you also have a number of vintage hand drills. One of the first tools I every bought for myself was a Millers Falls hand drill, a model 1425. I think this was sometime in the mid-sixties. I don't know whatever happened to that drill, but I recently found the exact model on eBay, new in it's original box! It even had the little set of straight-flute drills in the handle. 

Thanks for the pictures. I really dig your shop!

Paula

PS, Eldon is cute as a button!