The big concern i guess is the risk of paying out quite a lot of money, and ending up with a badly built Eastern machine that isn't reliable. There's quite a few potential advantages including a pretty wide 100 - 3,000 electronic speed variation, lots of vertical travel (42mm on the spindle, but 185mm by moving the head), tilting head, around 370mm vertical capacity (not huge, but it's usually possible to drill a jig block and clamp it to larger work to gide hand drill), manual (CNC extra) X/Y positioning table with up to 700/180mm travel - great for setting up jigs etc, routing capability etc., light milling/metalwork capability and probably a very true running spindle for precision drilling. This machine (or a very similar variant - likely from the same factory) is fairly widely distributed in Europe with a few spec differences as an Optimum Opti BF 20 vario: Just wondering if anybody can report experience of using a Grizzly G0704 BF 20 class dovetail column mill/drill or a variant (see below) as a woodworking drill press with light milling capability too: and Are they practical in this sort of use, is the quality decent, and do they give trouble/have issues or strong suits? the similar (?) square column Rong Fu - the older round column types don't hold registration as they are raised and lowered. Some of the FOG (Felder guys) are keen on e.g. Mill drills seem to be a pretty viable option. Old iron is possible, but is in short supply and very expensive over here. We've had a couple of threads on pedestal drilling solutions where we more or less concluded that there wasn't a lot available out there in a woodworking oriented quality pillar drill these days.
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