New Jet Mini??

[Mike Lipke]

Just got a flyer for a Post Thanksgiving sale from Jet. On the cover is this photo of a mini lathe, evidently for lefthanded turners.

[Cyril Griesbach]

Not the first time I've seen this mistake in Jet's advertising.

[Mike Lipke]

You know, it is really odd. They obviously flipped the photo somehow for some reason, but if you look really closely at the lathe's headstock, there is the word "JET", and it is not backwards. PhotoShop at work, I guess.

[Harvey Mushman]

Not the first time I've seen this mistake in Jet's advertising.

It might not be a mistake! Someone in the graphics department probably thought the photo "worked better" with the turner on the left and the headstock on the right for logo purposes, then decided on some PhotoShop magic.....Its a "flow thing"...you know...left to right and all that. That said, I'll never really understand how advertising/graphics people think......Actually some don't!!!!!!!

I've seen magazines use a famous guitar player on their cover who played right handed.....only the photo was reversed and it appeared that he suddenly became ambidextrous!.....All for the sake of graphics lay out.

H.

[Harvey Mushman]

You know, it is really odd. They obviously flipped the photo somehow for some reason, but if you look really closely at the lathe's headstock, there is the word "JET", and it is not backwards. PhotoShop at work, I guess.

It doesn't appear as if the entire photo was flipped...only the lathe, then the Jet logo replaced. The turner appears to be right handed.

[Keith Spaniel]

Finally, a lathe for us lefties

[John Terefenko]

Hope it has a reverse switch on it.

[Mike Lipke]

Reverse??
No need!
Just buy a belt a little longer and put a half twist in it. Makes it a bear to change speeds, but, what the heck.