Thread: Torque vs RPM?

Is this the Robin Wood referred to previously? Lost out on speed (just) but cut the bowl deeper, so maybe not.

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Matt in regard to your original question perhaps you should just concentrate on developing your leg muscles, although I suspect that will be an ongoing development .

Btw, I thought everybody had a wooden cereal bowl .

Regards
Paul

[QUOTE=Bushmiller;1609002]
Btw, I thought everybody had a wooden cereal bowl . /QUOTE]
Some of us stick to fine porcelain and Georgian silver rather than replica Elizabethan wooden bowls and spoons.
Yes Paul, it's the same Robin Wood.

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Originally Posted by Bushmiller

Btw, I thought everybody had a wooden cereal bowl . /QUOTE]
Some of us stick to fine porcelain and Georgian silver rather than replica Elizabethan wooden bowls and spoons.

Jim

I understand. Even in this household there is discrimination . SWMBOs cereal bowl on the right and on the left...... .

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Regards
Paul

Oh Paul, that's not a bowl that's a Basque Chaff Box (page 382). You have a mighty appetite. Either that, or I have misjudged the scale in the photo and your wife eats out of a teeny weeny doll house bowl.


Matt

In reference to my original question: I am really pretty open to the option of a lathe with a tail, but I do like the idea of a person powered lathe and it's nice to see people like Robin Wood, Roy Underhill, Peter Follansbee ... and Skew using them. I won't make any claim to huge ambitions as a turner but it's a skill I admire and would love to learn the functional rudiments of.

To that end: does anyone have any argument for a pole lathe over a treadle? I assume the orthodoxy is the other way 'round, but are there things theoretically possible on a reciprocating lathe that aren't possible on a normal lathe?

Thanks for indulging a novice

Matt

Originally Posted by Berlin

Oh Paul, that's not a bowl that's a Basque Chaff Box (page 382). You have a mighty appetite. Either that, or I have misjudged the scale in the photo and your wife eats out of a teeny weeny doll house bowl.


Matt

Matt

I did use a little, but not much, licence there in that SWMBO's bowl is a desert bowl, which does tend to be a little smaller, but my bowl is big . And heavy as it was made from ironbark by my son. I do use it every day, but I don't have the heart to tell him I can't afford to fill it up . A fist full of natural meusli looks rather lost in the bottom.

I have to be careful I don't drop it as I think it would go straight through the timber floor.

When you build your lathe we can expect to see a whole dinner service in timber?

Regards
Paul