I have equipped several employer's shops with Supermax lathes and mills. Another good lathe is an Emco Maier, made in Austria and top quality. I can recommend both of these brands without reservation having used them with complete satisfaction for the past 20 yrs.. I buy most of my tooling on the secondary market, lots of good values out there as most in industry have gone to CNC. MSC is a good source of cutting tools, lots of choices from "world sourced" inexpensive stuff to top quality made in the USA. In many instances for light intermittant use that home shop tools see the inexpensive suits the purpose just fine. Grizzly and Harbor Freight are a couple of others to consider.

Last edited by gunswizard; 01/06/12.