In design and construction "Star" Lathes conform to the highest type of standard engine lathe practice, and for rated capacity are unsurpassed. They have wide range for exacting service and are exceptionally desirable for use in the laboratory, tool room, experimental departments, scientific instrument 'shops, and for light, accurate commercial work generally.
     The user of a lathe can get out of it only what the skill, experience and integrity of the makers have put into it - accuracy, precision, long life, etc. Accordingly, we have never tried to "skimp" in building STAR Lathes - believing that the purchaser gets back, many times over, in accurate results, what he pays for in the purchase price for this special care and attention.
     Up to the point of assembling and fitting - being built in quantities with the use of jigs, automatics and other cost-cutting machines - the labor costs of STAR Lathes is little, if any, higher than for other lathes of equal capacity. In assembling and fitting, all bearing surfaces, both rotating and sliding, are carefully scraped to a thorough fit (see opposite page). The workmen who do this have had years of experience and each of them is a skilled mechanic. It is these men who build into STAR Lathes the accuracy and quality which have made them famous the world over for half a century.
     It is a coincidence that the extreme care exercised in building Seneca Falls STAR Lathes which gives them their accuracy and makes them the choice of practically all skilled mechanics in laboratories, tool rooms and other places where precision Lathes are required, and small, accurate work is essential, at the same time imparts to the Lathe the stability to stand up and give years of service under extreme manufacturing conditions.
     Various special attachments and fixtures add to the scope of work which STAR Lathes can handle to advantage. Our experience of more than forty years, a large thoroughly equipped modern plant and other facilities are at your service.
                                                                              SENECA FALLS MACHINE COMPANY

Unlike the "Industrial Estates" of today, with their windowless buildings, the Seneca Falls factory followed contemporary practice and encouraged as much natural light as possible to enter through  ceiling-high windows.
The workmen are hand scraping  bed ways and fitting saddles and tailstocks.