Who owns a lathe and who is a woodturner, I am the first to admit I own a lathe but would (wood) never confess to being a turner......
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Who owns a lathe and who is a woodturner, I am the first to admit I own a lathe but would (wood) never confess to being a turner......
I voted Rats coz I dislike turning but its a necessary skill for furniture making.
Yep, I got one....MC 1100, but must admit I don't use it much
Don't really go into my shed as much as I would like to either??
Me old uncle took a really bad turn last year (he's 78and got one of those heart things like Cliff's dad) and I spend most of my time around at his place, making sure he doesn't cut his fingers off in His shed.
( the machine's kicked in a couple of times already).
I do all the lifting, cleaning,stacking,ripping,etc etc cause the old boy just loves his shed :2tsup: His wife doesn't trust him to use the power tools, so I keep an eye on him :) If I make it to his age and have his passion, I'll be one happy man.
I own a lathe, I am a turner.
A bad one, but still a turner...
I bought an MC900, older model green one, at a clearance sale for $100, nobody wanted to bid and the auctioneer begged for someone to give him $100 for it. So I did!
Haven't used it a lot, used to do a lot of wood turning when I was younger, but pressure of work meant that I finished up selling the lathe I had at the time. So I'm hoping to get back in to it again, hopefully will do some pen turning.
Too pre-occupied with new toys at the moment though:2tsup:
I don't own a lathe. No option for this so I can't vote. :)
The only turning I've done was in high school many moons ago.
I can't say the idea of turning really grabs me but I'll probably get a lathe one day for making furniture legs and such like.
I won't be turning any pens and I think there's enough dodgy bowls and plates in the world without me adding to them. :D
Where's the 'I own a lathe and am a barely competent turner (on a good day). Only bought it cause it was cheap and handy for doing legs, round tenons etc.
Ah Geez,
I made a mistake....I thought you meant " I am the impotent Turner"
Where's the "I've got one, but it's stored in pieces and I'll get around to assembling and installing it as soon as I've got the time and money to add a 90 sqm extension to the shed"?:? :rolleyes:
Mick
Nova DVR 3000, love it, like to turn, I think I'm getting a bit better at it, but don't get enough time to do more.
Cheers!:U
Where the blazes is the "Ive got a bloody fanfriggintastic lathe but wouldnt have a clue" one??... or the "Ive got a lathe and some cheep shyte chisels but am totally incompetent" one?... or the "Theres something someone called a lathe in a corner of the shed that snarls and bites every time I go near it so I avoid it like the plague" one?.. or the "I think its called a lathe and I sometimes have a go at it but it tends to throw timber back at me" one?
But Ive got one and give it a short workout every now and then... but a turner? Im not a turners earhole mate!! :doh:
Got 2 lathes :U..........reasonably good at it :2tsup:, could be better if I had a bit more patience
https://www.woodworkforums.com/attach...4&d=1161396353
Where's the "I want to be a turner when I grow up, in the meantime I collect lathes" option?
Well I've got a lathe, I'm not intimidated by it (if you saw it, you would understand why not), but I wouldn't really describe myself as a turner. I've turned a few things but have yet to make two items that look the same, or that look like I expected them to when I started.
Can't say I've really been bitten by the bug, but there is something about it I suppose.
I don’t own a lathe, I don’t feel intimidated by it, I am not a turner and I don’t give a rats ring.:D
Also I have never turned a pen.:cool:
I'm CraigB, I don't own a lathe yet.
I did some turning at school and it was fun, you seem to get reasonable results in a short space of time with little experience and not a very high outlay in purchasing the machinery.
I think for under $5000 you could purchase a reasonable lathe and a handy set of chisels and have a completed bowl or box in a matter of hours with very little tuition or experience.
That amount of money for cabinet tools would not go very far and for a beginner the initial results would be quite ordinary.
The good turners do spectacular work, the rest just have fun I think.
When I get a lathe it will be for fun and to turn legs and decorative parts for cabinets etc.
When rejuvenating an old wooden chisel or screwdriver handle, it is spectacular how quickly you can get an acceptable finish when you sand and wax it in bench drill. To get a similar finish on a flat piece would take hours whereas on the drill it takes minutes. The turners seem to get it a bit easier when it comes to finishing.
It annoys me when people find out you are into woodwork and assume you are a turner. When you tell them you don't own a lathe, they knowingly nod their heads and assume you wish you could afford a lathe so you can be a real woodworker.:((
I must say the first thing people ask me is usually “do you own a lathe?”
Can't they say “Do you own a 10” JET supersaw” or “Do you have a 2ph powermatic jointer” or something like that?:?
People ask me that too. And I say "yes" :D
See, I am a real woodworker! :wink:
:D :D :DQuote:
Originally Posted by silentC
You are? :? :?Quote:
Originally Posted by Wood Borer
Who's this bloke then:
Is this one of those Spartacus moments? :?Quote:
Originally Posted by craigb
Thats a bit pricey for a hobby. My ex son in law bought a lathe for $200 and he turned out some. real nice bowls and stuffQuote:
Originally Posted by Wood Borer
I don't have one but have thought about it, thats as far as I got, thinking about it.:rolleyes:
but you will:D ...Quote:
Originally Posted by Wongo
i have a lathe but i want a bigger better one:2tsup:
Yep - if I had hair it would be blonde. :doh:Quote:
Originally Posted by Ruddigar
I have a little record and thought about something bigger, but, I use it occassionaly to make handles, knobs or whatever, I am afraid it just doesn't excite me that much.
I have also been asked first up many time 'do you own a lathe?', I really wonder why.
I saw a GMC lathe for sale at a car boot sale, the poor bugger was dreaming in more ways that one, he had a price tag of $300 on it, and it came with a full set of turning tools, 4 Marples chisels, he reckoned that they were really good turning chisels:? :? :?
The chisels were your everyday chisel, not turning tools.
I have a lathe and its great it has this big sanding disk on it , I do take it off if I need to , like Iain turn knobs handles etc but otherwise its a great faceplate sander:2tsup:
Record thought they'd gone out of fashion must be a 45 if its only little.......after an album or old 70 as the bigger one :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Iain
I have one new Jet mini variable speed
new to turning did it at school many moons ago always wanted to take it up my trade was partly woodork but nothing to do with turning
I bought it for hobby and fun
I had a small homemade lathe, years ago, but a mate has it now. I use one at work, but in my home workshop I have a metal lathe (& mill-drill), but there wasn't a polling option for it. It does get covered in wood shavings ocassionally!:oo: And I'm competent on neither...
Cheers,
And I thought the old records ran at 78.... ;)
I have a (non electronic-variable) Jet Mini - running very nicely if I knew how to use it. Pens are fine, but I can't figure out bowls - just roughing down results in so many dig-ins that my nerves are shot after a few short minutes.
Oh um yeh 78 thats what I get for typing in the darkQuote:
Originally Posted by Stuart.
A non eletcronic -variable Jet-mini????
Pedal power & belt change:D:rolleyes: good way of staying fit I guess hooking exercise bike up to drive but hard to move aroud thought
Well, yeah - both can run at different speeds - one uses the traditional belt and pulley system, the other has electronic control.
Doesn't mean they don't have motors!
G'day,
:yes: got a lathe. :yes: got some nice chisels, got the skills :no:
Do I turn much? :no:
Why the heck haven't I done much on it lately, well I was busy setting up the t/saw and now I'm about to start construction this weekend for my r/table.
In the meantime the cobwebs keep building on the lathe. :C
Ok - I'll bite - why?Quote:
Originally Posted by Iain
Yep! Got a couple of Lathes, tools etc. Do some turning, sell some pieces, exhibit some.:B
But what I would reeeaaally like is more shed time!:C
I've got 4 now, stupid expensive hobby.... bit like bloody golf. :p
I travel all over the damn country meeting people with the same affliction (not golf) & yesterday (day before now) I found out that the bloke who has been cutting my hair for almost 10 years has bought a block of land in the hills about 20Kms away from mine & he now has a lathe too..... :cool:
Due to cyclone Larry, he also has more fallen trees than I have & he doen't know how to cut them up & store them.... :rolleyes:
How many free haircuts can I use?????:?
How much wood can a wood.....turner pack in a suitcase & still get on a flight to Melbourne? :D
I've got a lathe and love to turn. I have plenty of other big machines, but the lathe is my favourite.
Not sure what flight your on Cliff, but Virgin & JetStar have a 20kg limit on your luggage, after that it is $7/kg :o . You can take 7.5kg on the plane, but if they are decent chunks, they deam them as deadly weapons and make you put them in your suitcase - then charge you more excess :~ I got caught on my last trip, cost me $70 to bring back my timber blank gifts, probably only worth $30, but I could not bare to put them in the bin.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cliff Rogers
I know, been caught before on Jetstar, came Virgin this time, web seat allocation, selfcheck the bags, 28Kg & 6.5Kg... :rolleyes: Only 13.5kg of that is clothes & suit case & backpack.Quote:
Originally Posted by dai sensei
Didn't get busted for it this time. :2tsup:
Well for the wannabe's, would be's and am's ...
Forum turnfest in Melb. tomorrow, for details go to as well as follow the leap-frog links:
http://www.woodworkforums.ubeaut.com...ad.php?t=52325
All very welcome, esp. maybe's and wannabe's ;-}
Hope you all have a great time.
and don't forget the camera.
$5,000? :oo: :oo: :oo:
If I had that much for a lathe, it better be gold plated and cut wood all by itself. :2tsup:
As it stands, I have more money invested in the lathe tools than the lathe itself. By a factor of 5.
Scary huh? Even more so when you realize there are only 3 small HSS tools, and they were the exorbitant sum of $50.
I say lathe because it really isn't. It's just a few ally die castings, a couple bearings and some plastic. Runs off the drill stuck in one end, and that at least is connected to a spindle. It's not as crude as using the drill's chuck, but it isn't far short of that.
It works, I can turn small stuff, that's all I need until I can wangle a bigger one.
(Or run up to Tokyo and steal Stu's from the dungeon when he's not looking. :D )
Well I have the keys to the hoist, so if you could get it out of the Dungeon, you could have it........wait a minute, that's dangerous, knowing you, you'd figure a way.....:rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by Schtoo
Well you could certainly come on by for a test drive of the DVR! :2tsup:
Typhoon get past you yet?