Some years ago a friend stored his Smitty mill/drill/lathe at my house for over a year. It was the bottom end machine and cost about $600 at that time. I found that cheapo machine worth it's weight in gold. Turning out knobs, cutting slots and making other little doo-dads was fun, easy and looked lots better than say drilling two holes and cutting between them with a Dremel tool. For labeling the knobs I used a local trophy shop.