How much lathe......

[derfatdutchman]

I have used both Clausing and South Bends, both are very serviceable lathes. My first lathe was an Craftsman/Atlas 3996 that had seen very little use. I paid $1,000. for it, in hind site was too much as it did not have much tooling 3 jaw, 4 jaw, face plate, dead centers and a very crappy four position tool post. Once I added an quick change tool post, live center, drill chuck and other stuff I enjoyed using it a lot more. The major problem with the lathe is it has a small spindle bore. I eventually bought something larger, but kept the Atlas as having two lathes can be super handy.