too slow for me, but I can see for some instances and people thats great if you cant get a mill.get it as ridged as possible or it will eat up end mills. I have a drill press that will barley drill holes it's so underpowered and uses a 8mm star shaft for the drive.... tiny belt,that wont transfer power at the low speed as the belt has somuch friction going around that tint pully abd bending way more than it was made to do...and has not got enough power at any faster speeds...so I use it for drilling plastic.( it's a floor standing model)oh well I have 2 mills, if that drill press I have had bigger/better drive I would just add more power and change pully's/belt. I bought it new 20 years ago or so...I should of looked at it good before buying it.I never thought they would take the time to make something this bad.