Very pleased with this item. Please bear in mind I am not precision engineer, I am a wood worker mainly interested with wood turning. Now and again I have the need for a metal work lathe, but I cannot justify buying one, so I have converted my wood lathe into a metal work lathe. To achieve this I purchased this simple compound table, a tool post and tool holder and a set of metal turning tools. OK, it not a Colchester or any other precise lathe but used very gently it works a treat. Had to rebuild the table of course! Would recommend just adding an m6 nut to the handwheels.