I was surprised to find a Shopsmith Mark V featured as the main tool in a Hamilton, MT shop. This is the featured shop in series "My Shop", in "American Woodworker" Magazine. (Issue 170 Feb/Mar 2014)
The series "My Shop" is a contest that subscribers enter. Winners are chosen by the editorial folks.
This shop is owned/built by Nancy Ballance in Hamilton. She shows beautiful photos of her very well organized and clean 1000 sq. ft. shop. Also shown are a model Mark 5 (won ribbons at the County Fair) and a beautiful side table.
She was quoted in saying "My trusty Shopsmith - which I have upgraded by adding larger tables - is still one of my favorite tools".
"I use the Shopsmith's tablesaw, jointer, lathe, drum and disk sander functions most often".
She told of retrofitting her old tables (probably 500) into a "unique worktable that tilts, slides and rises up and down".
Good photos of her shop and her Mark V, which I thought was an original 510 until I read the two page feature.
Mark-V featured in magazine article.
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Mark-V featured in magazine article.
Octogenarian's have an earned right to be a curmudgeon.
Chuck in Lancaster, CA
Chuck in Lancaster, CA
Here is a link for the article: http://americanwoodworker.com/blogs/res ... -shop.aspx
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"... and it was after long searching that I found the carpenter's chest, which was indeed a very useful prize to me, and much more valuable than a ship loading of gold." Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, 1719
