Since trying my hand at the Goodwill Lathe one thing that has definitely happened is the frequent utterance of many words in the shop that just can not be repeated on this site.:gar-La; I'll be cruising along thinking all is going well, then wham, a bad catch, followed by the piece being flung across the shop. That is me throwing it across the shop, sometimes after the lathe threw it the first time, especially when the catch caused the bottle stopper mandrel to break the other day, and ruin the last piece of rosewood I had. :cry_smile
But when the piece turns out good I tend to forget and fall in love again, especially when someone, like the LOML, tells me it looks great. She definitely knows how to stroke my ego. Here's a few Christmas ornaments for the misses I did Thurs. and Fri. They're maple, cherry and walnut out of the shorts bin at The Hardwood Store. I am sure it has been done before, but a paper clip did a great job of drilling the small hole for the eyelets. They were cut off of small fishhooks
On the plus side she did ask me a couple of weeks back how much we could get a lathe for. :widea: On the bad side I drug my feet a little instead of jumping on the one posted in our classifieds last week and let it get away:eusa_booh
But when the piece turns out good I tend to forget and fall in love again, especially when someone, like the LOML, tells me it looks great. She definitely knows how to stroke my ego. Here's a few Christmas ornaments for the misses I did Thurs. and Fri. They're maple, cherry and walnut out of the shorts bin at The Hardwood Store. I am sure it has been done before, but a paper clip did a great job of drilling the small hole for the eyelets. They were cut off of small fishhooks
On the plus side she did ask me a couple of weeks back how much we could get a lathe for. :widea: On the bad side I drug my feet a little instead of jumping on the one posted in our classifieds last week and let it get away:eusa_booh