Nice to be back

[Claude Arragon]

It has been ages since I last came and met you. I will not tell you the list of problems which prevented me from joining you here, but these are over (I Hope)

Lately a French friend of mine came and visit me while I was tuning and explaining to an Italian student how to turn an off centre spike. My friend is sure not a good film operator, but he produced the following

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xto6-OEunc

[Bill Bolen]

Welcome back Claude! Glad to hear some of the problems are offering less interference...Bill...

[John Keeton]

Amazing! I would have expected that slim spindle to fly into a dozen pieces when the lathe was cranked up!:eek:

[Claude Arragon]

Thanks a lot William
John, it's surprising to see how resistant the wood is

[bob svoboda]

Simply fantastic! Thank you for sharing that.

[David E Keller]

Welcome back! Very interesting piece and video. Thanks

[Bernie Weishapl]

Welcome back Claude. Good to see ya posting. Really nice video and I thought the same thing. How does that thing stay so steady? Amazing.

[Steve Schlumpf]

Claude - Welcome back! Great little video! Always a pleasure to see your work! Thanks for sharing!

[Mike Stephens]

Yes thank you very much.

Now I want to see more.

Please

[Ray Bell]

Wow, I can not understand what he is saying, but the body language seems to say "nothing to this"

[alex carey]

wow that was pretty cool to watch, the wood certainly does surprise me.

[Claude Arragon]

Many thanks to any one of you for the welcome back greetings.