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Lifetime Woodworking Partner


Here's how Shopsmith will become your Lifetime Woodworking Partner!

Let Shopsmith help you achieve your woodworking dreams!
Think back for a moment to your last power tool purchase. Once you left their store with your new tool or said “good-bye” to their telephone sales rep, have you ever heard from them again?  Have they ever offered to show you how to use their tool to do something  more efficiently or professionally? You see, that’s where Shopsmith’s different!  As a new MARK V owner, you’ll soon discover that you can count on us to come through with the help you need to become as good a woodworker as you’d like to be­as soon as you want to be.
 
To help you achieve your goals, we’ll be your Lifetime Woodworking Partner… providing loads of How-To materials, special offers on Shopsmith products, access to our restricted Shopsmith Owners’ website, the exclusive “Woodshop Tips” delivered to your e-mail address, extended-term guarantees and warranties, TOLL-FREE Customer Service & Technical Support, and lots, lots more.

14 Great Ways We're Reaching Out To Be Your Partner

  1. Comprehensive Owner’s Manual
  2. Self-Study Guide
  3. Power Tool Woodworking for Everyone Book
  4. Safety Kit
  5. Accessory Catalog Subscription
  6. Invitations to our Traveling Academies
  7. Access to “MARK V On-Line”
  8. National Woodworking Academy
  9. Loaner Headstock Program
  10. Two-Year Warranty
  11. Lifetime Gaurantee on Materials and Workmanship
  12. Full 90-Day Money Back Gaurantee
  13. TOLL-FREE Customer Service Hotline
  14. TOLL-FREE Technical Service Hotline

 

 

#1 Comprehensive Shopsmith MARK V Owner's Manual

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Included with every MARK V

At Shopsmith, we look at our Owner’s Manual as more than an obligation. We see it as one of our best opportunities to help you get the absolute maximum benefit from your new MARK V.
 
That’s why it contains 122 heavily illustrated, information packed pages, covering power tool safety; assembling and aligning your MARK V; how to use the five basic tool operations; routine maintenance; 9 pages of exploded-view drawings with part descriptions & numbers; plus a quick-reference, 34-page troubleshooting chart to help you solve practically any imaginable problem, on-the-spot.
 
We believe that knowing how to use your new MARK V properly is an important step on your  road to woodworking success.  Once you’ve seen the Shopsmith MARK V Owner’s Manual, you’ll know how seriously we take this challenge.

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#2 The Shopsmith Self-Study Guide

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Included with every MARK V

Nearly 200 pages of invaluable wood working knowledge, organized into ten lesson/chapters.  Follow this self-paced, step-by-step course of study to discover: 

  1. How to crosscut, rip, dado and groove with the table saw
     
  2. How to drill holes in different materials for different purposes
    Special techniques for sanding to a super-smooth surface
     
  3. How to create a host of common wood joints that provide the strength you need and look great, too
     
  4. Getting started with spindle & faceplate turning on the lathe
     
  5. And much more.

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#3 Power Tool Woodworking for Everyone

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Included with every MARK V

Shopsmith’s own, 325-page, hard cover Powerhouse of woodworking knowledge.
Your resource for in-depth, how-to coverage on setting-up and using every tool and function of the Shopsmith MARK V. Many consider this to be the most useful of all the Manuals & Guides that come with your MARK V.
 
Over 1,000 photos and illustrations show you every technique in clear, easy-to-understand detail. You get plans and/or instructions for building nearly 60 work-saving jigs & fixtures to help you perform a host of jobs more efficiently.  A dozen helpful troubleshooting charts zero-in on potential problems and tell you how to solve them fast  This is one invaluable piece of  reference information that no Shopsmith MARK V Owner need ever be without!

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#4 The Award Winning 5-Piece Shopsmith Safety Kit

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Included with every MARK V

Shopsmith is dedicated to ensuring your safety when using our tools.  As a demonstration of that dedication, every MARK V comes complete with a 5-piece kit of special aids to help keep your hands out of harm’s way as you guide your  workpieces safely through a variety of woodworking operations.
 
This award-winning kit includes a Push Stick, two rubber-bottomed non-slip Push Blocks, an adjustable Pusher that straddles the Rip Fence for making narrow rip cuts, and a Feather Board for holding your workpiece firmly against fences and other guiding devices for improved precision and added workpiece control.

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#5 Subscription to the MARK V Accessory Catalog and Assured Notice of Sales

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A MARK V owner benefit

You have our assurance that you’ll be apprised of all special MARK V Accessory sale offers, as well as any offers we may make on related wood-working products.
 
You’ll also receive a lifetime subscription to our informative, full-line Catalog of Accessories for the Shopsmith MARK V.  When you’re ready to move on to more advanced projects, Shopsmith is ready to support you with hundreds of specialized tools and accessories designed to help perform every imaginable woodworking operation more safely and with better results.

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#6 Shopsmith MARK V Traveling Academy

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These special One-Day Traveling Academies are being held continuously at locations throughout the country and will reveal to you the tips, tricks and secrets  that will help you get the most out of your new Shopsmith MARK V. 
 
Learn to use some of your MARK V’s special features, how to keep it running smoothly, get the answers to your wood-working questions, enjoy special savings on Accessories and more.
 
As a new MARK V Owner, you’ll receive an invitation to attend one of these informative academies, when we come to your area.

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#7 FREE Access to MARK V On-Line

Shopsmith’s Special Website, Exclusively for MARK V Owners

Here, you’ll find lots of great How-To woodworking articles, free project plans, Shopsmith tool user reports,  and monster link pages to woodworking tutorials & thousands of other helpful woodworking web sites.
 
This promises to be “the site” for Shopsmith MARK V Owners, putting an ever-expanding universe of available woodworking knowledge and opportunities right at your fingertips!

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#8 Access to the Famous 1, 2, and 3-day National Woodworking Academies

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A MARK V owner privilege

Choose from a list of value-priced  courses on MARK V Fundamentals, Cabinetmaking, Lathe Turning, Jigs & Fixtures, Routing Basics, Furniture-Making and more.
 
All Academies are held at our Dayton, Ohio factory, and are taught by our staff of professional woodworking instructors. Attendance is limited and seats are available on a first-come, first-served basis. You’ll get plenty of chances to ask questions and loads of hands-on practice.
 
Shopsmith MARK V Owners are the first to be apprised of these special woodworking Academies.

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#9 Loaner Headstock Program

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A MARK V owner privilege

If you ever need to return your MARK V Headstock (Powerplant) to the factory for repairs during the warranty period, we’ll ship you a loaner Headstock­ free of charge so you can keep working on your project while your Headstock is being repaired.

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#10 Two-Year Warranty

All Shopsmith products are covered by a Two-Year Warranty (from date of original retail purchase) against defects in parts and workmanship.  We will replace or repair (at no charge) any Shopsmith manufactured products found to be defective during this two-year period. Copies of this warranty are included with your MARK V­and are also readily available from Shopsmith upon request.   Included with every MARK V.

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#11 Lifetime Guarantee on Materials and Workmanship

Any Shopsmith manufactured product failing beyond the two-year warranty period (and for the life of the original purchaser) as a result of defects in materials and workmanship (and not normal wear) may also be eligible for free replacement or repair, based on factory inspection of the defective product or part.  Contact Shopsmith for complete details.  Included with every MARK V.

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#12 Full 90-Day Money Back Guarantee

Use your New MARK V for up to a full THREE MONTHS to build any project you like — as many as you like — before you decide to keep it. Should you decide that the MARK V is not for you at any time within that 90 days, just give us a call TOLL-FREE and we’ll tell you how to return it. Included with every MARK V.

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#13 TOLL-FREE Customer Service Hotline

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Included with every MARK V

Just call our TOLL-FREE Customer Service Hotline any time you’d like to place an order or have an order-related question.
1-800-543-7586

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#14 TOLL-FREE Technical Service Hotline

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Included with every MARK V

Just call our TOLL-FREE Technical Service Hotline when you need help setting-up, aligning, using or maintaining a Shopsmith product­or whenever you have a woodworking question.
1-800-762-7555

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