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Wow, Bill, your shop is great! (Attachment Link) 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!

Thank you Paula, glad you enjoyed the photos.

The Powermatic is a recent addition, Great deal by the way, I payed $100.00 for it on the condition that I moved it myself within two weeks of purchase.

I think my lathe is a little older and a lot more worn than yours.   Yours looks almost new in your photo.
It came with a 4-jaw chuck and I added the 3-jaw and collet chuck over the years, also Bison.

The Tormach Has been there for several years now, hard to believe I got it through that little door.

The table saw is just plain awesome, I love it.

For some unknown reason I just can't resist the egg-beater drills when I find one, the three on the right have all their original bits in the handles.

One thing that is hard to see in the photos is my metal cutting saw, here's a picture of it after I rebuilt it.

 
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Cheers,

Bill