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I have seen some really nice restorations here and I'm seriously considering trying my hand at it. What concerns me is the resale value of a used Shopsmith. It looks like a restoration could easily run into $200-300 over the cost of the machine to really bring it back to new condition. I'm looking ...

Gotta love how the justification for the price is it is "almost new" Doesn't matter that it is 20 years old. "New" must be a relative term...20 years is relatively new versus the time humans have walked the earth. Almost everything is new, just used for 10 hours, barely touched....

It's true and my biggest issue with CL people are the ones that say something like, "email me for pictures." It's not like CL charges for posting pictures and for the lazy person saving 30 seconds they waste my time and their own time every time someone wants pictures. My big issue are th...

I don't think I have ever had dealings with better customer support than Shopsmith's. I recently ordered the upgrade bandsaw cover along with a help kit. With the cover I also ordered the dust collection retro-fit. I discovered that the new cover already had the dust collection port and called them,...

Guilty. I just did the same thing after the first glue up making a chess board. What made it worse, I already knew not to run end grain over a jointer! Oh well, I think the second attempt on the chessboard is looking much better