I'm building a bed for my daughter. I need to match the feet on the foot board and make finials. I found this inexpensive wood lathe at Harbor Freight. $110 for the lathe and $10 for a set of tool steel tools and I was in business. Sure it is not a cast iron lathe and the tools are not HSS steel, but it did what I wanted to do, and has a 40" bed so I can do table legs. For a novice that hasn't touched a lathe in 30 years I'm happy! The twin Deli Cat food buckets are my down draft shaving collectors connected to my Jet vacuum.