Cheap CNC Lathe beats all others

[Richard23]

I found this lathe from Gunhead. http://gunhead.com/GMW/index.html

I’m a small parts builder, and originally I was using a sherline, but found it to be a bit inadequate. There just isn’t a small lathe that was tough enough to do what I needed in steel and aluminum. That is what I thought until I found the Gunhead 7x lathe. I bought it, and it does the job. It’s made of steel and iron, unlike it’s aluminum rivals. Best tool I ever purchased.

I think I saw one on ebay too.

Richard

[MikeV]

Pretty cool! [H]

Expensive but cool. [;)]

[Bgrigg]

Well, given that a high end table saw or non CNC lathe will cost just as much, it’s pretty cheap!

[HawkeyeHobbies]

Though I have a lathe…the old fashion manual type, I rarely if ever use it anymore. This one has a six inch diameter capacity. I should start turning missile and bombs for some of my 1:32 scale projects.

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[Sprue-ce_Goose]

As the basic lathe design is the Sieg , you will be able to obtain parts.

FYI: parts available at:

http://littlemachineshop.com/products/product_category.php?category=1

and another forum

http://www.cnczone.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=443

[MikeV]

Well, given that a high end table saw or non CNC lathe will cost just as much, it’s pretty cheap!

A table saw for $2700? That is VERY high end. [:D]

[Sprue-ce_Goose]

Well, given that a high end table saw or non CNC lathe will cost just as much, it’s pretty cheap!

A table saw for $2700? That is VERY high end.

I believe he should really mean Cabinet Saw.

[Bgrigg]

Piffle. Delta calls them cabinet saws to justify the price! [;)]

If you go to their website, you won’t find a product category called cabinet saws, only table saws. But they aren’t your run of the mill contractor style table saw, that’s for sure! Once you’ve used a 10" Delta Unisaw with the biesemeyer fence it’s hard to go back to the el cheapo Ryobi! [:^)]

[Sprue-ce_Goose]

Piffle. Delta calls them cabinet saws to justify the price!

If you go to their website, you won’t find a product category called cabinet saws, only table saws. But they aren’t your run of the mill contractor style table saw, that’s for sure! Once you’ve used a 10" Delta Unisaw with the biesemeyer fence it’s hard to go back to the el cheapo Ryobi!

Well…as for terms, I go by this sort of stuff

http://www.toolsofthetrade.net/industry-news.asp?sectionID=1492&articleID=501445

[Bgrigg]

Sprue-ce, we’re talking past one another. Delta calls their “cabinet” saw a table saw, and a cabinet saw is a table saw, with a bigger out feed table, and occasionally a sliding table. Still a table saw, though. The link you provided calls them “cabinet” in the title, and calls them table or cabinet throughout the article as evidenced by this sampling from the first page:

Not so long ago the choices for 10-inch, 3-hp table saws were limited to a few tools regarded as industry standards.

Table saws are pretty simple machines, but if a saw is not dead true or if its fence slips or its blade wanders, the saw is not only useless, it’s dangerous.

Assembling a table saw is only half the battle, however.

All this polish is fine, but the meat of a cabinet saw–the trunnion–lies just under the table, housing the arbor and motor supports.

We can have similar arguments about whether a car is an automobile, a 4 door or a saloon, or a convertible or a drophead.

Call them what you want, my point is a $2700 CNC Router isn’t any more expensive than a top of the line cabinet/table saw.

[Sprue-ce_Goose]

Sprue-ce, my point is a $2700 CNC Router isn’t any more expensive than a top of the line cabinet/table saw.

Agreed.