Reply To: Buying lathe parts seperately

[david pierce]

Randy,
If you go to Youtube and type in you will see a Sincere Lathe cutting a gear. If you type in or just , you will see a Vector Lathe in a wooden box along with many of the accessories. The Vector Lathe is the same lathe as the Sincere Lathe but is shipped to Germany, put in a wooden box and marketed as a product that has been “finished” in Germany. It costs a lot more than the Sincere lathe but no one ever explained what the Germans actually did to the lathe other than put it in a wooden box and raise the price. I too have read the comments about the lathe such as “it is ok considering that it is made in China”, and “cheap Chinese junk” etc. These comments are not true. I own a Bergeon and a Sincere and they are both excellent, high precision lathes. The Sincere is basically a copy of the Bergeon but the bed on the Sincere is a couple of millimeters larger in diameter than the Bergeon. It comes standard with a high precision cross slide and a lever operated collet holding tailstock that lines up on center with the headstock. When I bought mine the price was $450.00. The gear cutting/milling attachment costs $245.00 extra. For about $50.00 a sensative drilling kit will turn the lathe into a sensative drill press. It is sold on Ebay under “watchmaker lathes”. If you buy everything at once you can have what is essantially a complete watchmaking machine shop for around $2000.00 dollars. If you go to “OTTO FREI” and look up the price for the same lathe and accessories with a Bergeon the price is about $40,000.00 dollars.