Yes Rich, the 9" is far bigger than required for model shipbuilding...but as they say, you can make small parts on a big lathe, but you cannot make big parts on a small lathe!...HaHa. I'm fortunate in that during the 20 years I have owned this lathe I've been about to obtain all the tooling I need to do most any lathe operation needed. Here is a photo showing the tooling rack I made for the lathe. On important thing when considering a lathe or mill, regardless of size, is that one should allow fully half the budget to apply to the purchase of various tooling...without tooling the basic lathe or mill is very limited in capability.
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