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    BF style mill availability (US)

    I've been considering one of the BF20 style mills as a second manual/DRO mill, but it seems as if they are hard to come by.

    Grizzly appears to be a wait and I haven't heard anything back from LM as yet.

    Any other suppliers or ideas on who has them? I don't mind paying more for an ostensibly better built version, though I assume they all come from the same factory.


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    Isn't the Precision Matthews PM-20MV a BF-20 (or a clone)?

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    Sure looks like it. How is their reputation?

    Also heard back from LM and he has the mills, but not the stands. He seems to have a good rep so I might just go with him. I do like Grizzly overall or should I say I have a wood bandsaw from them that I like. But I don't much care for how they do things most of the time.


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    I don't have any direct experience with them, but there have been a number of threads on this site about them that may be worth reading, for example the following one:

    PM-25-MV (BF L Type) Conversion / Mods


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