Interesting thread.
Chris’s machinery is from an era of well built brick outhouse, extremely reliable and not so easy replaceable. I’ve set up wood shops from sales thru service and everything in between since 1999. I spoke with him a couple years back and in that brief conversation believe we’d conversed more about wood working than Audio.
Unfortunate :-(
What irks me most are those who steal a man’s lively hood, his (tools.) I’ve landed many easy sales on such a unfortunate set of circumstances. A guys gotta regroup and retool.