Went to the SBE last weekend and order my lathe from Chris Hightower. Looks like a good lathe to start on. Rather go with a 40" gap bed lathe but really don't have the room right now. Have to work out of my basement so I'd have to find Riggers to get it down there. I'll go cheap for now.

Ordered a Jet bandsaw, drum sander and dust collector. They should be here this week. Waited and searched the Net and found a site with 15% off and they shipped EVERYTHING for $6.99 (over 400...