On Sun, 18 Mar 2018 23:16:58 -0500, Leon <lcb11211@swbelldotnet>
wrote:
>On 3/18/2018 7:38 PM,
k...@notreal.com wrote:
>>
>> I went to the Atlanta Woodworking Show yesterday and know, now, why I
>> didn't bother last year. OTOH, I did see a turning demo by Colt. I'm
>> not so interested in seeing what a master can do on a lathe but one is
>> on my wish list. I didn't even know that Colt made lathes, so knew
>> nothing about them. They make only a full-size (~$3K buy in) and a
>> midi (~$1K, without legs). They look like they're fairly nice and
>> what I've found online speaks well of them. Anyone have any other
>> words of wisdom? I'm not looking to buy soon but seeing something
>> that I hadn't seen before piqued my interest.
>>
>> BTW, this is the same Colt that makes the drill bits but perusing
>> their site, I see the "Twin-Land" series but not the "5-Star". Nice
>> bits, still.
>>
>
>
>I was going to ask if it was the same Colt. Well hopefully the lathes
>are made by COLT and do not just have the Colt name plate.
It's hard to know. I was hoping someone here would have more
information. THey looked rather nice and from what I could find on
the net, at least the electronics were pretty nice. They could be
building on someone else's machine, though.
This is what I have. Unfortunately, it's at the bottom of a rather
large PDF.
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http://colt-tools.com/projects/32/images/cata_new.pdf>
>I think the 5 star bits lost out as being too expensive. I loaded up on
>the 5 star when a local cabinet hardware shop marked their inventory
>down to get rid of them.
Probably, though it doesn't look like they shy away from making
expensive bits (see the rest of the above PDF).