Rowan
2nd February 2005, 10:00 AM
Ahhh how cruel life can be. For the past couple of years I have been power craving burl bowls and have loved it. I used to turn my nose up at any suggestion of turning them as I enjoyed the free form of my finished product. Recently a mate "dumped" his grandfathers lathe with me and I tried it........it was fun. So I did some more and now am addicted.
So I started saving (the loaner is a 1/3hp home made job without chuck, face plate and even without live center) with the aim of buying a "proper" lathe to work on. After plenty of looking round and some valuable advice from reading posts here and finally talking to Jim at "Carrolls Woodcraft Supplies" in drysdale (that should be worth a 1% discount on my next purchase :D ) I decided upon the Teknatool N3000Q.
Yesterday morning I picked up the lathe along with all the extra's and now I have a great new lathe sitting in the open box on the floor of the shed.
The
cruel
irony
is
It will be friday before I get my steel bench frame made up!!!!!!
add a couple of day to put top on, level and bolt it to the floor and set everythign up and it seems like water torture :( :(
Yeah I know I could make it with wood but I have an engineer for a mate so I'll save my wood for more enjoyable works :D and waste his steel for the banch!!
So I started saving (the loaner is a 1/3hp home made job without chuck, face plate and even without live center) with the aim of buying a "proper" lathe to work on. After plenty of looking round and some valuable advice from reading posts here and finally talking to Jim at "Carrolls Woodcraft Supplies" in drysdale (that should be worth a 1% discount on my next purchase :D ) I decided upon the Teknatool N3000Q.
Yesterday morning I picked up the lathe along with all the extra's and now I have a great new lathe sitting in the open box on the floor of the shed.
The
cruel
irony
is
It will be friday before I get my steel bench frame made up!!!!!!
add a couple of day to put top on, level and bolt it to the floor and set everythign up and it seems like water torture :( :(
Yeah I know I could make it with wood but I have an engineer for a mate so I'll save my wood for more enjoyable works :D and waste his steel for the banch!!