It was rocking along pretty good, my first set went a little slow, hadn't been on the lathe in a few days. Then I decided to clean my tool rest up; filed the pits out of it. Which that helped immensely; it's been awhile since I cleaned it up, and it needed it. Next couple sets I was cruising, I'd glued the tubes up on 7 sets, but I was squaring my ends up, turning, finishing, and assembling a set an hour. Stopped for supper, then I hit the Flame Box Elder and both of those gave me grief; that set is destined for the house.
Had the same problems on both... Spun the tube on both of them. Light colored and show dirt easy, pulled nastiness off the bushing into the finish on the bottom half on both of them. Had to sand them both back to bare wood and start over. By the time I was done with those two, I'd had enough, gave up, took pictures and came to the house. Should have had 3 sets turned in the time I spent on that one set. And, the next set up on the bench is Box Elder Burl!
You got all that done, and worked on the Trailblazer transmission lines for 12 hours? Good grief dude!! You got any pictures of you wearing your superman cape?
