Ueee
10th September 2012, 01:01 PM
Last week i had my first holiday in 6 years.....BLISS
My Grandfather passed away last year and i was lucky enough to inherit his lathe and tooling. So i went to see my Grandmother for the week and picked up the lathe etc. He bought the lathe new in the late 80's when he retired, it is the multi v belt version, not the standard v belt. I have the original manual for the lathe, outriger chuck, chuck jaws etc. I also bought back some timber-mostly Camphor laurel, forest oak and flooded gum (i think) although i think there is some red ceder and maybe some beefwood too.
It has been about 6 years since i did any turning (which was more production work than for fun) but when i got home i set the lathe up and had a play. I managed only one catch, whilst cleaning the end grain, and even managed to use the skew successfully! My bead and cove are far from perfect but i'm pretty happy with them.
http://i1151.photobucket.com/albums/o622/ueee84/IMAG1020Large.jpg
http://i1151.photobucket.com/albums/o622/ueee84/IMAG1017Large.jpg
http://i1151.photobucket.com/albums/o622/ueee84/IMAG1023Large.jpg
http://i1151.photobucket.com/albums/o622/ueee84/IMAG1024Large.jpg
My Grandfather passed away last year and i was lucky enough to inherit his lathe and tooling. So i went to see my Grandmother for the week and picked up the lathe etc. He bought the lathe new in the late 80's when he retired, it is the multi v belt version, not the standard v belt. I have the original manual for the lathe, outriger chuck, chuck jaws etc. I also bought back some timber-mostly Camphor laurel, forest oak and flooded gum (i think) although i think there is some red ceder and maybe some beefwood too.
It has been about 6 years since i did any turning (which was more production work than for fun) but when i got home i set the lathe up and had a play. I managed only one catch, whilst cleaning the end grain, and even managed to use the skew successfully! My bead and cove are far from perfect but i'm pretty happy with them.
http://i1151.photobucket.com/albums/o622/ueee84/IMAG1020Large.jpg
http://i1151.photobucket.com/albums/o622/ueee84/IMAG1017Large.jpg
http://i1151.photobucket.com/albums/o622/ueee84/IMAG1023Large.jpg
http://i1151.photobucket.com/albums/o622/ueee84/IMAG1024Large.jpg