So as soon as i can find someone to buy the 19's Shopsmith's they will be gone so i have more room for other stuff. It is a much better bandsaw and bigger as well. I have the bandsaw as well on a seperate power stand and it is a pretty good little saw but it has been put on the bench in favor of the 18" Grizzly Bandsaw I got for $150 off CL.
The Mark VII is soon to be disassembled and stored as well to make more room so you get the idea they do take up a lot of space even though they are marketed as space savers. The 1954 model I rebuilt is now disassembled and stored to make room for other stnad alone tools. I also use the lathe which is probably the best part of the Shopsmith. I use the 1984 model quite often to power the jointer I got with the Mark VII. Then I found a Shopsmith DC 3300 dust collector for $30 when I went to get it the guy had a complete 1984 Mark V with many accessories which he sold to me for $85 dollars which was a complete steal. I totally rebuilt it from the ground up with new everything and it now looks better than new. Then I found a 1954 Mark V on Ebay that nobody bid on and I bought it at the last minute for $99. The first one was a Shopsmith Mark VII which was only made for a few years between 1962-66 and it has the distinction of being able to tilt both left and right which allows you to put the headstock underneath the work piece which the original Mark V could not do. I got the first one a couple of years ago to do some woodworking stuff which kind of opened up the flood gates to my current tool addiction although I have had a tool addiction for a long time it got really bad when I bought the first Shopsmith.
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