Photos of members' lathes and other favourites....

[Nick]

...Does the Hobbymat lathe do all you want of it or would you like a bigger lathe?

Its a bit small, but has the advantage of being easy to move and does most things I ask of it - if I were restoring cars or some-such, it'd be a different matter... The BFE65 milling head is very nice, however the travel on the table is pretty limited...

If I ever strike it rich, I'd like a decent CNC lathe, or failing that a proper Engineer's lathe - I quite like the look of the Axminster one:
http://www.axminster.co.uk/axminster-eng...910-lathe/ but there are some around the 2K mark that would fit the bill...

My engineering training was all on Myford ML7s or Boxfords, but that was a long time ago...

Only problem really is that the current workshop has a wooden floor (see the cellar door in the photo above) so a 520kg lathe wouldn't stay upstairs for long, if at all