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   OldGreen | Mar 22, 2009 07:20pm | #1

   I like the price! I have not seen this mortiser in person so I can't really help you but it looks like a lot of machine for the money.

   I do have the Grizzly horizontal boring machine with a similar X - Y axis table design, and I can say it is not the smoothest action. It took a bit of tweaking but it works.

   Just last month I bought the Powermatic 719T chisel mortiser which is a dream to use, nice and smooth with a tilting table for angled joinery, but it is over twice the money...

   Hopefully someone who has seen this machine can can help you out a bit more.

   Matt

   http://www.oldgreenwoodworking.com

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   SARGEgrinder47 | Mar 22, 2009 07:20pm | #2

   I do believe it is the same as the Steelex which is a division of Woodstock International which is Shopfox which consequently is all owned by Shiraz B. who also owns Grizzly. For that matter it is the same as the York-craft mortiser when Wilke Machinery was up and running.

   The machines has been purchased by several and all seem to be relatively happy with it. I used a York-craft once before purchasing an Industrial mortiser. It was fine and having a X-Y table is a large improvement over bench-tops.. Add better hold-downs and you would be hard pressed to find a reason that $399 is not a bargain indeed.

   The machining is not perfect.. the hold-downs are good but not great.. the X-Y table was fine but limited to some degree. But... I have an Industrial 650 pound mortiser with death grio hold-downs so I cannot compare to it. I personally woud purchase it if I had not stumbled on a $2100 mortiser for $800. Again.. a vast improvement over any and all bench-tops IMO.

   Sarge..

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   woodenhead | Mar 22, 2009 08:16pm | #3

   Thanks for the information?

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   SARGEgrinder47 | Mar 22, 2009 08:58pm | #4

   Good luck.. that's really a good deal IMO compared to a bench-top but.. I think I already mentioned that. :>)

   Regards...

   Sarge..