Pros:+ Works well with my wood lathe. Quiet and smooth + soft metal (aluminum?) retaining ring around the tip. This may sound bad, but for me it prevented serious damage to the center and knife. I installed a milling slide on my lathe to cut flat surfaces on spindles. The base frame has adjustable stops intended to prevent the cutter from touching the lathe parts at either end of the carriage travel, but I forgot to adjust the stop once when installing a shorter spindle. When the cutter hit the