Most used Aloris and Dorian tool posts out there for sale are worn. They may hold accuracy and may not. I would suggest buying a Shars brand QCTP. Yeah, they are Chinese for now. Trend now is this stuff is starting to show up coming from India. Just as good quality if not a tad better.  Sad thing is, the steel used to make the goods comes from China.

Hmmmm.   

Ebay comes to mind, naturally. It might be worth checking Craigslist and Facebook Marketplace. I have been rather amazed at what things you can find in those two places.

For new I guess all you can do is search around.

For tool holders I've had very good luck with Shars. Not American made, but they have been just fine. I can understand being a little more discriminating about the QCTP tool post though.

Good luck in your search!

I've been shopping around for a QCTP for my Logan 6560H.
I don't want Chineseium so looking for either an Aloris or Dorian in a BXA size. Will need tool holders as well.
Any recommendations for sources of new or used ?

I made this die filer many moons ago. I don't use it much, but when I do, it's irreplaceable when doing a specific micro machining job in my Hobby Shop. Pic shows it mounted on my Levin lathe. And not just a Levin. It could be adapted to many other Watchmaker Lathes.
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That container just sits there with cutting oil in it. My lathe is set-up for coolant. But, I do not want the maintenance that goes with it. So, that little container is all I have to help in machining. For me, it's good enough. And I try and stay away from machining stainless! The container is shop made and I did not make it. Can't remember how I found it, it was too long ago. 

I've heard of die filers that mounted in a lathe, but have never seen one. Thanks for posting a photo of yours!

I also like the spill-proof oil container you have on your cross slide. Is it fastened in place there, or does it just happen to be sitting there in your photo? I assume that is what it is anyway, it looks like some sort of container with an acid brush sticking out of it.

I had this incomplete die filer laying around for decades. So, I took some time over the weekend to get it up and working again. With some scrap metal I fabricated a drive shaft with an oscillating drive head. I made the drive shaft longer than necessary. Since I was using a lathe as my power source, I had concerns about the spinning chuck being too close to the die filer working area and a hazard to me. And all this maybe being a good idea but possibly causing some kinda weird vibration at the oscillating drive when under load. But, after a test run, all was good.  So, now I need something to file on, lol. There is no name on the die filer other than "Pat Pending". It had a #2 Morse taper for mounting. I changed it to a #3 Morse taper to fit my lathe. The white felt thing (umbrella) under the die filer table was my idea for keeping the filing swarf out of the moving parts. I guess time will tell.
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As nice as a Cuttermaster appears, one of those probably will not happen for me. Used ones seem to be in the $2000 range or more and a new one is $11000. Sadly, I don't have the cash available to pursue such a machine.

I know, I know, you get what you pay for. I would love to buy once and cry once, but my budget dictates that something like a Quorn or Stent will be what ends up in my shop. The Quorn and Bunelle have the advantage of being able to sharpen taps and reamers, but I doubt I will be doing any of them. 

Shars offers a U3 style machine at a reasonable price, but I know where it is manufactured, and find myself a bit skeptical. The reviews on it are quite good, but I am still suspicious.

I also need to keep the footprint small as I don't have a huge shop by any means. Something that is small enough and light enough to be able to place it on a storage shelf will be important for me. On the other hand, it may see enough use that it will remain permanently on a bench top.

Decisions, decisions.  Tsk, tsk.

That family of grinder that you are looking at, to me, does not meet your objective. I have a similar design and it does an excellent job of dealing with pantograph cutters, but that's it! I also have a Cuttermaster, and that would be my recommendation. It's kinda like a floor model tool grinder but in a smaller envelope. Way more capabilities than a Quorn in IMHO. My three cents. My Cuttermaster is made in China (I think all versions are?) but it's been a great addition to my Hobby Shop! It can make a mess! Find a place that can handle the grinding swarf! A vac system and well placed rags when using the Cuttermaster would be a good idea. If you find one with a pneumatic spindle. Make sure the spindle works (turns freely) with air. If it does not, it's probably rusted inside and now just a hunk of metal, ask me how I know!

Thanks Ken. I am a member of that group also and have looked at those files too. 

Harold Hall from England did a series of sharpening jigs for a lowly bench grinder with upgraded wheels that may be easier to build than a T&C grinder and may also be easier to use. The series ran in Model Engineer years ago and portions of it showed up in a couple of different books that he wrote. He also wrote a book just on T&C sharpening. For $13 a copy of that book is on its way to me right now.

Right now I do not know for sure what direction I will take, but I am keeping an open mind. End mills are expensive, so having the ability to sharpen them would be great but is it worth it for me to spend $1500 or more to be able to sharpen them? Probably not. Some of Harold Hall's solutions will sharpen the ends of an end mill, but not the sides. 

For right now I am just in the planning stages anyway, but advice from others is always welcome, especially in an area where I have almost zero experience. I did have the opportunity to use a Darex end mill sharpener about 25 years ago. It worked okay, but not great. On the other hand, maybe I wasn't using it quite right either.