Not speaking for Bill Grumbine but he posted this several years back (Fri Aug 05, 2005 10:03 pm) on the diyprojects forum:

Bill's post

"Poolewood lathes aren't really available anywhere right now, at least that I
am aware of. Of course, this only serves to drive up the value of my own
Euro 2000. ;-) I read some of the postings on the AWGB forum, as far back
as I could go anyway, and there is nothing there that I did not already
know. Poolewood split with Silverdrive, the company building the machines
for them. But even before that, getting them into the US seemed to be a bit
of a problem. There were only a couple of distributors in the US, and none
of them seemed to be real interested in advertising or promoting the
machine. The one with whom I am most familiar, David Ellsworth, sold one
model only and you had to pick it up to get it. But Poolewood offered a
whole range of lathes, from a small benchtop all the way up to the monstrous
Euro 3000, which had something like a 30" swing and a 3 HP 3 phase direct
drive motor. I had briefly considered talking with them about being a
distributor, but I am only about 30 miles from David, and I did not think it
would fly, or be proper.

My Euro 2000 is built like the proverbial tank. I have turned extensively
on just about every lathe on the market, including the Oneway 2436, the big
Stubbys, and other machines of this caliber. I have never been sorry that I
bought my Poolewood, or wished for something more powerful. It holds its
own easily in this crowd, and the problems I have had with it have been
minor. The run/stop and reverse switches have a tendency to get dust in
them and need to be blown out with compressed air from time to time, and the
speed potentiometer needed replacing ($12.58 for an industrially rated one),
and I bought metal locking knobs to replace the plastic ones. It has seen
very heavy turning and even some abuse both from me and a host of students
over the past six years, and it is going like the day I bought it.

Of course, this is all academic, since the only way to get one is to find
one used, and I do not know of anyone who owns one who would be willing to
part with it. The Silverdrive company seemed to offer the promise of
carrying on in the tradition of a great lathe, but judging by the talk on
the Brit forum, I would not want one, only because of the lack of service.
I will say that whenever I needed something from Poolewood, Terry Davis
either emailed me or called me on the phone to get it all taken care of.
Now that is service!

The new Poolewood seems to be a shadow of its former self, if only from a
style point of view. My machine looks like something out of Buck Rogers,
while the new one looks like a refugee from a spare parts bin. Reports on
its performance vary widely, and I have no experience with it."

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