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Steve Bedair's web site has lots of modifications and improvements for the HF 9x20 lathe, the Grizzly 4003G Gunsmith Lathe and the Grizzly G6760 Mill. There are also lots of projects, tips and links.

You'll find lots of mini-lathe and mini-mill modifications, ideas, helpful hints and instructions for useful tools that you can build.

Among other things, Dave like to build small steam engines. He's done a great job of photographing and describing the construction details for at least ten of them here. He also provides free, and very nicely drawn plans for most of them. If you would like to develop your machinist skills by building a simple (or complicated) steam engine, then check out this web site.

David Denker's has made quite a few interesting modifications and accessories for his 7x12 mini-lathe. He also constructed his own mini-mill using the head assembly from a Sieg-type mini-mill.

Frank Ford builds and repairs stringed instruments such as guitars and banjos. This requires making a lot of precision metal parts. Frank is a superb machinist and he has created one of our favorite web sites that is full of all kinds of tips, tricks and interesting tools and projects.

A huge collection of interesting and useful articles that have been published in their club newsletter since 1996.

A treasure trove of metalworking and workshop tips

The machines, tooling and accessories of the author's well equipped shop are beautifully photographed and described. You'll find lots of useful modifications, suggestions and ideas here.

This very talented Japanese machinist has made all kinds of neat and useful tools for his shop, and he has done a good job of documenting them with pictures. Even though his English is not very good, you may find his web site very useful as a source of ideas for your own designs. Novice machinists may also find it educational to see how he went about making these tools and parts.

This site consists mostly of a huge collection of links about Taig lathes and mills. You will also find lots of CNC resources, along with general metalworking and project idea links.

A small web site with some nice mods and accessories for mini-mills and lathes. You'll also find some homemade machinery made from Gingery plans.

This is one of our favorite web sites. It's a fascinating machinist's blog with an enormous amount of content that is about a lot more than just CNC.

This is a rather large web site about the author's interest in machining and his workshop. It includes tool reviews and recommendations, information about projects he has built, including details about his CNC conversion, links and more.

Maybe Chris Heapy's site isn't the slickest one around, but he has some great workshop tips and lots of information about machine tools and techniques, along with plans for various projects and tools. You'll also find some things specific to the Myford Super 7 lathe here.