WEN LA1158 1-5/8-Inch MT2 Tailstock Live Center for Wood Lathes

Very well made

Many not be as good as a professional one. For what I'm doing at home this works great.

This WEN live center is a great upgrade for my Harbor Freight benchtop lathe, which features an abysmally cheap live center in the box that has difficulty staying in the work piece. So far, the bearings are still performing smoothly even after shaving a handful of bowl blanks, spindles and pen bodies. It's sharper than it looks, too, which makes it easy to center your project on the tailstock. I'm going to upgrade my lathe soon, but I'll probably carry this over to the next one.

Great tool. Haven't had any issues with it. I use it to turn baseball bats.

This live center is a good value. It works very well and runs smoothly. The only problem so far is that the threaded collet/cover that encloses the bearings tends to come loose when working, requiring me to stop and fix it. This could allow dust in and reduce the life of the bearings. I see others have mentioned this issue in their reviews, and as some suggested I will just put some Locktite on it. For under $20, I'm totally fine with it.

This is well made and easy to use

works just as described perfect absolutely great!

Works just fine.