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Wow, Rolls Royce of lathes might be more apropos. Looked like five rows of indexing holes in one gear and seven in another. That's quite an interesting piece.
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Ornamental turnings can be quite spectacular. There are far less expensive options than this
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James Harris has long been doing ornamental turned boxes with african blackwood and other timbers. Fantastic examples of what can be done with one of those machines. I can only marvel at them.
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That is more then a Rose Engine Lathe which is almost the same thing.
They did build a nice lathe there tho but to me personally I would get a lathe and the Rose Engine Lathe for a lot less.
But that could be used for many things including small metal lathe too
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He wants cash.
That will be one fat wad of bills to carry around.
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Why wouldn't you just buy any commonly available metal lathe? It would be twice the lathe that is for a fraction of the price. Looks nice for a wood lathe but meh in metal lathe features and size/mass. That money would buy a used HAAS TL1 CNC lathe.
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