18-08-2012, 04:44 PM
Hi,
Many thanks Gary for adding this thread. The work shown is very inspirational and beautiful. These are the sort of projects for our long winter evenings and each item would give many hours pleasure at the lathe whilst costing very little for materials.
I was pleased to receive a previous email from Gary giving a link to Hans's work and found Hans attention to detail meticulous.
My current woodturning lathe a Record Power DML24" is the smallest lathe I've owned and I considered it to be tiny compared to my huge cast iron industrial Dominion lathe which I sold a few years ago; at 2HP and weighing around 0.75 of a ton fitted with a cross slide the Dominion didn't take prisoners if a mistake was made. Hardly the lathe to turn out work such as Hans produces.
My chum David also kindly sent me a woodturning link which Joe had sent to David and again it is fascinating to see the work produced especially in this case as the lathe is downright primitive but operated by a master.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnv0DAR_gWA&feature=related
Lathes have always been my favourite machines and I still own three of them; I've only just set the DML up in the new workshop so hopefully over winter I'll enjoy using it.
Kind regards, Col.
Many thanks Gary for adding this thread. The work shown is very inspirational and beautiful. These are the sort of projects for our long winter evenings and each item would give many hours pleasure at the lathe whilst costing very little for materials.
I was pleased to receive a previous email from Gary giving a link to Hans's work and found Hans attention to detail meticulous.
My current woodturning lathe a Record Power DML24" is the smallest lathe I've owned and I considered it to be tiny compared to my huge cast iron industrial Dominion lathe which I sold a few years ago; at 2HP and weighing around 0.75 of a ton fitted with a cross slide the Dominion didn't take prisoners if a mistake was made. Hardly the lathe to turn out work such as Hans produces.
My chum David also kindly sent me a woodturning link which Joe had sent to David and again it is fascinating to see the work produced especially in this case as the lathe is downright primitive but operated by a master.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnv0DAR_gWA&feature=related
Lathes have always been my favourite machines and I still own three of them; I've only just set the DML up in the new workshop so hopefully over winter I'll enjoy using it.
Kind regards, Col.
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