Granted, I do wood work for a hobby and do not make my income with it. Added a bandsaw, jointer and jig saw for about another $600.00.įor me they work well enough so that I have gotten rid of my bandsaw, table saw and router table. I would consider myself a subject matter expert when it comes to this fine woodworking system! It’s made IN America, BY Americans, FOR Americans!! I’ve owned my old Mark 510 now for 26 YEARS and it’s run thousands of hours and cranked out small and LARGE projects alike with little to NO significant repairs needed!

Look, for a home hobbist (even a serious one) you can beat this high quality machine.

Oh, and by the way – good luck FINDING and AFFORDING a Horizontal Boring Machine with samethe Shopsmith’s capablities (bring a real FAT wallet)!I priced out all the free standing machines a local store carried in stock and I well exceeded the purchase price of the brand new MK VII! Keep in ming that this particular store DID NOT carry any “shapers” OR “horizontal boring machines”!Īs far as wasting time in change overs, I’ve timed myself often, going from table saw over to drill press mode (doing this change over at a slow pace, which after some experience these change over become more intuitive) and the average time required for this, the longest change over was: 1:40!! Yea, that’s crazy – go buy all free standing tools after you build a free standing work shop! You’d be hard pressed to go out and purchase ALL seven of the machining functions offered by the Mark VII! Go ahead and price it out.

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