When your husband is a machinist, fabricator, and machine builder, he looks at equipment with different eyes. Eyes that look at how it is engineered, built, and crafted. When he saw the Nolting longarms and frames at a large quilt show a few days before making this statement, he was immediately impressed with the Nolting frame. Functional, he knew the clear span foundation had the strength, support, and stability to support the longarm. Testing the Nolting machines, I knew that Nolting's features and stitch quality were crafted for my quilting journey. Only later did we realize the benefit of the one time investment in the commercial frame. It was simply designed to grow with me as I traded up from a 20" Fun Quilter to a Pro 24, and now to the 24" Diamond.