Something like this. It's a live center that is threaded to allow you to mount a chuck.
Great, something new I don't have......
Something like this. It's a live center that is threaded to allow you to mount a chuck.
Great, something new I don't have......

Wanna buy one for me when you buy one for you?![]()

Sure buddy, just wait by the mailbox, it will be there any day now!![]()

Where’s the pictures of the inside and bottom?![]()
Can you expound on this setup? How the heck do you have a chuck on each end?
Something like this. It's a live center that is threaded to allow you to mount a chuck.
I get that. It’s taken me a year and a half to get back to these.I have a few bowls I need to finish too if I ever get any shop time. One is a really cool ambrosia maple.
Work sucks for me sometimes.I get that. It’s taken me a year and a half to get back to these.
Yeah, I can’t use work as an excuse any longer. When you hear folks in retirement say “How did I ever have time to work” believe them.Work sucks for me sometimes.
I have found that it is totally over rated myself.Work sucks for me sometimes.
Got a notice the building I am in was sold. Have 45 days to move the shop out of here. Arghhh. Truthfully this probably was the first shop set up that I was 90%+ happy with how everything worked and I was feeling and getting super productive. Fortunately I have a place to go, but the pain of it all!!!
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That's a nice big bowl Tom! Are those chunks below the lathe in the queue for turning? Or just ballast...Finish turning another ambrosia maple bowl that was roughed out 18 months ago.
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At least it's an opportunity to purge, was for me anyhowGot a notice the building I am in was sold. Have 45 days to move the shop out of here. Arghhh. Truthfully this probably was the first shop set up that I was 90%+ happy with how everything worked and I was feeling and getting super productive. Fortunately I have a place to go, but the pain of it all!!!
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I've been using them as ballast for the last several years, Barry. Its about time for them to get rotated out though, get some different weights on the machine. Since they've dried they aren't as effective as they used to be.That's a nice big bowl Tom! Are those chunks below the lathe in the queue for turning? Or just ballast...
Did some prep for pepper mills for the show next month.
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And just look at the cocobolo and paduak shavings of the Forstner bit.
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