Hello! I’m David Propst in Granite Falls, just north of Hickory NC. I am a woodturner getting back to turning after a long hiatus. I started turning 12/31/1999 when I was introduced to the the lathe at a get together of folks from the long defunct Badger Pond forum. Until then I was thinking I’d someday make great furniture.
Since that day my table saw largely exists to make turning tool storage and accessories .
I soon bought an old delta Rockwell lathe, then after joining the NC Woodturners club bought a beautiful Conover lathe from a member. By 2003 I had taken a couple classes with David Ellsworth and upgraded to a gorgeous 2hp Poolewood lathe.
I’ve made some great friends through turning. One of those original Badger Pond posters from Indy is like my sister and a respected turner. Over the next 12 years or so I did not turn as much as I liked. Life, layoff, nursing school, and nurse practitioner school got in the way. In 2013, I started again turning a good bit. In 2016 plans to do extensive house remodeling, including a proper shop space morphed into moving to a new home instead. Part of these plans included selling the Poolewood for my dream and last lathe, a Robust American Beauty.
I’d turned on this lathe for a week at three different Arrowmont classes. I equate turning on an American Beauty to like driving a super responsive sports car, the old Subaru is just never going to feel the same (though I did Love my dearly departed Baja). I equate it it a Saturday dock fisherman wanting a top of the line bass boat, but I have friends who spend more on motorcycles, chasing little white balls, or sports cars.
So after the move, the “perfect” shop space in the new home became a family room instead. A huge amount of landscaping and life again delayed having a shop, and I didn’t have a lathe. Well the time has come.
After a long Saturday of pulling cable and running conduit “my side” of the detached garage will have a 100A subpanel with 110/220 to spare by tomorrow. The old 1972 Unisaw tabletop is polished to make turning storage, the bandsaw is eagerly awaiting some wet, green blanks, and oh yea, the American Beauty will be in the center of the shop by March.
Since that day my table saw largely exists to make turning tool storage and accessories .
I soon bought an old delta Rockwell lathe, then after joining the NC Woodturners club bought a beautiful Conover lathe from a member. By 2003 I had taken a couple classes with David Ellsworth and upgraded to a gorgeous 2hp Poolewood lathe.
I’ve made some great friends through turning. One of those original Badger Pond posters from Indy is like my sister and a respected turner. Over the next 12 years or so I did not turn as much as I liked. Life, layoff, nursing school, and nurse practitioner school got in the way. In 2013, I started again turning a good bit. In 2016 plans to do extensive house remodeling, including a proper shop space morphed into moving to a new home instead. Part of these plans included selling the Poolewood for my dream and last lathe, a Robust American Beauty.
I’d turned on this lathe for a week at three different Arrowmont classes. I equate turning on an American Beauty to like driving a super responsive sports car, the old Subaru is just never going to feel the same (though I did Love my dearly departed Baja). I equate it it a Saturday dock fisherman wanting a top of the line bass boat, but I have friends who spend more on motorcycles, chasing little white balls, or sports cars.
So after the move, the “perfect” shop space in the new home became a family room instead. A huge amount of landscaping and life again delayed having a shop, and I didn’t have a lathe. Well the time has come.
After a long Saturday of pulling cable and running conduit “my side” of the detached garage will have a 100A subpanel with 110/220 to spare by tomorrow. The old 1972 Unisaw tabletop is polished to make turning storage, the bandsaw is eagerly awaiting some wet, green blanks, and oh yea, the American Beauty will be in the center of the shop by March.
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