I've got a Grizzly G0709 lathe and I'm very well pleased with it....I use it every day for my small business I have here at my home. I had thought of getting a older US made lathe and decided not to as I don't have time to be rebuilding a lathe. I took this lathe and got it set up and leveled, cleaned it, and have been putting it through the paces ever since without any problems...it serves my needs very well. It is very easy to thread with and also very accurate. I'm not a real machinist and don't really care that maybe a older American made lathe might be X amount of thousands more accurate than this one....all I care about is that this lathe does what I need it to and I haven't had any problems with it so far. When something fails on it in the future, I will fix it and just keep on going...the way I see it, so far I'm still way more money ahead of the game....