Any woodworkers?

This is what Id like to get eventually...

https://www.pennstateind.com/store/KWL-1218VS.html

 

I haven't made a salt or pepper mill yet. I the bits and kits, just got into bowl and have been eat up with that.

 

That's nice. I wish I had a attached light and digital display. Just using a old desk lamp and guessing at rpm by feel.

 

The damnedest thing is I just came across some big chunks of wormy chestnut and I was fixing to pm you about getting some grinders turned out of them lol
I forgot you had to sell your stuff

 

The lathe is cheap, it’s every gouge, jig, rest, etc. that cost a fortune.

 

That's why I went cheap on the lathe, a Harbor Freight model that is a clone of the Jet 1236. One of the best value propositions out there, at least for me.

 

i bet its nice...keep it for now, im definitely going to get one in the next few months

 

Quick project for a buddy of mine.

 

I sanded it down and it is glass smooth on everything except for a couple blocks that were just a little low and my palm sander could level everything out but we tried some stuff tonight and I strategically spilled some oil on it when I was pouring up the grease and rubbed it all in... My thought process is it will repel water just like a cast iron skillet so hopefully the wood wont warp as bad... I don't see me using it much because its only like 7x10 but live and learn

 

I did the same thing. I wish it had the digital rpm setting. It works well for what I do with it. I can turn a bowl if it is less than 8”, pens, small spindles, and things like that. A sharp gouge is the most important thing.

 

Neat man. Bandsaw box modified?

 

Yeah, I guess it would be a bandsaw box with no lid or drawers.

 

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I like it man. Its got that wanna reach out and grab it, that means it looks right.

 

You can add a

$19 DIGITEN 4 Digital Green LED Tachometer RPM Speed Meter + Hall Proximity Switch Magnet Sensor NPN for Lathe Conveyor Belt

digital tach pretty cheap.

 

So at the FD we're doing some remodeling and the white shelf used to be a visitor coat rack. I couldn't bring myself to just throw it away so I hung it up in the basement and loaded it with some construction vehicles that my ex father in law made before he passed.

All of them are 99% wood... From the wheels to the tracks on the crane. Obviously there's some plastic for windows and lights and some strings for the crane.. but that dude was a far better and far more patient woodworker than I'll ever be.

They're HUGE! The dump truck is 9 inches tall.. the crane is almost 22 inches tall. For reference that wire shelf is a full 8 feet long!!

I have no idea what they're worth or anything.. but the loader articulates in the middle and the bucket goes up and down etc. The trailer disconnects and the dump box goes up and down. The tracks on the crane work and the boom goes up and down etc.

Just thought I'd share some other types of wood working.

 

Wow those are neat!

 

Thank you! I also have an old school fire truck that he made specifically for me when I started on the FD. It's on a wooden base with a Lexan cover and not enough room to put on that particular shelf

 

Hard to put a $ number on stuff like that, but the detail of the pieces I'd say easy $300-500 each piece set..

 

Those are cool man.