(04-11-2019, 01:15 PM)kdouglaslee Wrote: I'm building columns to replace the ones around my porch (thirty columns altogether), this one is about ready to go up. I'll be glad when this project is over so I can have my workbench back for more important things, like cutting boards!
That's quite an undertaking. I hope you post a picture of the finished project.
New to me Griz Lathe (G5979, their older version with the sheet-metal legs) that I picked up almost a year ago. Up until this past week, about I'll I'd done is tear it down and then rebuild because the Reeves drive had seized. Seems fine now if a bit stiff, but getting better the more I use it.
My old lathe is a little bench top from PSI that I also purchased 2nd hand (oddly enough, from Wood Magazine because they had bought a bunch of mini lathes for a review article years ago).
Anyway, giving this lathe a shake down cruise. Literally because I didn't go a good job centering the blank at first. Plus the rolling base handed over by the previous owner still needs work (and weight).
Quick and dirty little bowl made from a glued-up blank of poplar.
I am SO out of practice using a lathe. Bit more time with the 80 grit gouge than I'd have liked. Not that I was ever good in the first place. Just don't turn much, heck, lathe sat nearly a year before I got back to working on it!
Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things. -- G. Carlin
(04-12-2019, 09:48 PM)EdL Wrote: Drilled the door hinges tonight....been a few years since I used the Blum, lot of head scratching to verify my setup.
Ed
Yes......Hinge driller. One of the best investments I've made also. Sure beats a drill press and a forester bit. Have you got the shelf driller attachment for yours?
Steve
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I miss the days of using my dinghy with a girlfriend too. Zack Butler-4/18/24
The Revos apparently are designed to clamp railroad ties and pull together horrifically prepared joints
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(04-13-2019, 10:17 AM)Stwood_ Wrote: Yes......Hinge driller. One of the best investments I've made also. Sure beats a drill press and a forester bit. Have you got the shelf driller attachment for yours?
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