One thing about woodworking on a budget, you have to be patient.
Patient and imaginative.
OK, patient, imaginative and lucky.
My luck started a while back when Mike Davis gave me an old Central Machines lathe.
There was no motor but hey the price was right.
Then a couple months ago I was in a local surplus store and found someone's home made sharpening system, complete with 1/2 HP motor- $10.
Now all I needed was tools.
A trip to HF and a look at the scratch and dent shelf yielded an incomplete and thoroughly abused set of HS steel turning tools.
Not free but the best I was likely to find. I heard somewhere I should plan to spend at least as much on tools than on the lathe.
Along about this point I attended a Train the Trainer event and under Fred's watchful eye took a few tentative passes at a spindle.
Here goes nothing
The spindles are chunks of 2x from the BORG.
The one oak spindle and the plate are from an experiment in resawing some firewood I did last year.
Finally, the beetle. A chunk of black locust from out back.
Oh yeah, that's the home made face plate I cooked up to do the plate (imaginative part)
Don't know what I'm doing but sure is fun.
Thanks to Mike and Fred for leading me astray.
Patient and imaginative.
OK, patient, imaginative and lucky.
My luck started a while back when Mike Davis gave me an old Central Machines lathe.
There was no motor but hey the price was right.
Then a couple months ago I was in a local surplus store and found someone's home made sharpening system, complete with 1/2 HP motor- $10.
Now all I needed was tools.
A trip to HF and a look at the scratch and dent shelf yielded an incomplete and thoroughly abused set of HS steel turning tools.
Not free but the best I was likely to find. I heard somewhere I should plan to spend at least as much on tools than on the lathe.
Along about this point I attended a Train the Trainer event and under Fred's watchful eye took a few tentative passes at a spindle.
Here goes nothing
The spindles are chunks of 2x from the BORG.
The one oak spindle and the plate are from an experiment in resawing some firewood I did last year.
Finally, the beetle. A chunk of black locust from out back.
Oh yeah, that's the home made face plate I cooked up to do the plate (imaginative part)
Don't know what I'm doing but sure is fun.
Thanks to Mike and Fred for leading me astray.