Thread: lathes in Canada?

The Oneway and General lathes are made in Canada. Not my choice for a lathe, but a very high quality tool. I do believe they have their Jet Clones there as well.

robo hippy

I am on the west coast so don't really know much about Toronto, there is a Canadian Turning Forum and quite a few of the fellows are in Ontario:

Turning

There is a store in Toronto that everyone recommends called Woodchucker's:

Woodchucker

On the Woodchucker's site there is a link to the Toronto Woodturners Guild.

I hope this helps, of course if you get to the left coast you are welcome here in Powell River.

Trevor

Skew, we have a member on this forum, William Young, who hails from Canada.

https://www.woodworkforums.com/f8/cha...ml#post1131091

He owns (owned?) a Busy Bee 18x47, same as the H&F 18x47 and the Grizzly/Laguna, he also runs his own forum

http://wmyoung.proboards.com/index.cgi?

and is active on AAW, where there are a couple of threads on these lathes.

Busy Bee appears to be the Canadian equivalent to Grizzly and they sell a range of machinery for both wood and metal working.

Not sure where they are located or whether they only sell via the internet.

http://www.busybeetools.com/categori...g/Wood-Lathes/

A PM to William might help.

Edit:

They do have stores

http://www.busybeetools.com/pages/Store-Locations.html

Canada is a stunning country, I'm envious. If you're going to but a lathe it sounds like you'll be there for a while.

-Scott

There are lots available and just as many opinions re: what is best. Most like to flaunt the Oneway or General but IMHO they are way overpriced unless it is for production use. I would suggest you look for a Woodchuckers location or Busy Bee unless you have an large budget I have found the Barracuda chucks economical and good quality (woodchuckers supply them)

How the bloody hell did you manage to get a passport!?!?!?! Wonders will never cease ;-).
I have no idea about the availability of lathes but I'm stoked to see you're heading over there anyway. Good luck to the pair of you

Skew try shipping your lathes etc as a migrant you get some preferential treatment[ or used to].
Lathes and tools etc just about what ever is available in the US of A is there in Canada, so no problems.

As a matter of curiousity what part are you heading to? West is best, BC is a great province and one of the most beautiful, spent a bit of time working in the Canadian Rockies, truly magic location.

Rikon (the USA version of woodfast) should be easy to get shouldn't they?
Cheers,
Jim

Thanks fellas! Plenty there for me to mull over. I wonder why Google seems to think Canadians only buy "toy" lathes?

And a big Thank You to Big Shed for those links. Handy!

Originally Posted by TTIT

How the bloody hell did you manage to get a passport!?!?!?! Wonders will never cease ;-)

I know! I'm still feeling like a stunned mullet, but have carefully stashed the goodies away in case the pencil pushers come to their senses.

Originally Posted by hughie

Skew try shipping your lathes etc as a migrant you get some preferential treatment[ or used to.

Hughie, I won't be migrating... just yet. I'm going over to spend some time with the inlaws and it's quite possible I will end up over there more permanently but it's just as likely to work t'other way at this stage and we'll have a new Aussie..

Either way, the future'll be seeing a lot of to'ing & fro'ing so I'd like to have something at both ends to keep me out of mischief.

I'll be in Toronto for a while, but then heading East Coast to put the Newfies patience to the test. From there, who knows?

Good luck with the move, Andy! Try to fit some Oz hardwoods in with your baggage for the Canadians to try out.

The days of being shoeless are over Skew

Why not ship them over in a container, it will probably cost about the same, especially when you consider all the chucks and bits you may need to replace.

Good luck with the move mate

(lucky sod!)

Didn't you post about just getting your shed the way you want it now your heading (I was going to say to snow and cold but Vic is not much better).

No shoes = blue feet.

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Originally Posted by TTIT

How the bloody hell did you manage to get a passport!?!?!?! Wonders will never cease ;-).

He asked a very shady character to vouch for him.