An original Faircut Countershaft with the large pulley drive by  the inside flat of a V belt. The mass of the cast-iron pulley added a useful flywheel effect to the drive.

A heavier and much rarer 3.5" x 20" Faircut with front-mounted adjuster screws on the headstock bearings, a conventional "full-width" backgear behind the headstock pulley, a T-slotted cross slide, automatic knock-off for carriage feeds and a bed supported on feet at both headstock and tailstock ends. The makers' stand featured a countershaft overhung from the left-hand leg with a V belt from motor to countershaft  driving onto a narrow but large diameter flat-pulley fast-and-loose system - a style reminiscent of the simple V belt-to-flat-pulley system used on many American South Bend countershafts.This was a system that worked with commendable smoothness and efficiency - one being adapted to drive a Myford M-Type once in the writer's ownership..

A rare survivor: a Faircut complete on the maker's stand with the effective fast-and-loose countershaft unit. To give an ultra-fine feed to the carriage a previous owner has incorporated a useful belt-driven reduction system. With this removed and the changewheels substituted, normal screwcutting would, of course, be possible.