Just summing up what I see so far with the SB1001. It's superior in quality to my 7x16, I can tell it will be two to three times as rigid, It runs smooth and quiet, clean up was a breeze, my tormach oxa quick change bolted right on to the existing 10mm stud. The tailstock feels as heavy as my 7X16! It'll take me awhile to get it off the floor and mounted even with the carriage and tailstock off, it's heavy. The machining on the ways are a work of art, and the hand scraped crosslide and carriage has to figure into the price. The nice paint and multitudes of oil & grease fittings are also more costly, but what a lathe should have. There are ten grease fittings alone, and I didn't expect an oil fitting on the chuck. Almost every moving piece has a fitting! Sure beats dumping oil on and hoping it goes somewhere good and not just all over the wall. I have a 3-mt ground test bar I'm hoping will jive with the three page test results that came with it.