content: This is an example where pretty good engineering is erased by lousy quality control. The machine work is extremely rough and the table and fence took hours of grinding and filing to get them half way smooth. Once the parts are smooth enough to be assembled, you realize that the fence isn't square to the table. That takes more grinding and filing to correct. Now you get to actually use the machine - only to find that the chisel and bit don't line up with each other and neither is square to the fence. Shimming the column square to the table and then shimming the motor to get the chisel and bit in alignment finally yield a useable machine.This wouldn't be a bad machine if there was some quality control in the machining and assembly processes but unfortunately there isn't. My mortiser finally works OK but I really wish I'd bought a General or Powermatic.