Jeremy Leasure
01-10-2012, 8:15 PM
They scheduled the delivery for today between 8 and 11 AM. The guy showed up at 1 PM. I was annoyed because I rescheduled a vet appointment at 10 for this but he was a cool guy so whatever. We couldn't get the full size semi and trailer in to my drive and back to the shop because of a new power line that hangs way too low across the driveway. Soooo, we drove it down the road to my Grandads and unloaded it there. I broke down the pallet and made a couple trips back and forth hauling all the pieces to the shop. I was worried I wouldn't be able to pick up the bed solo but it wasn't too bad.
This is what I came up with to solo assemble it. I stood up one leg, placed a sawhorse with some boards underneath on the opposite side to raise it higher than the second leg. Grabbed the bed and put it down across all three. I bolted on the first leg...
http://i970.photobucket.com/albums/ae190/Chaoticfree/lathe1.jpg
Then slid the sawhorse out and bumped the second leg up until the holes lined up. That took care of the hard part.
http://i970.photobucket.com/albums/ae190/Chaoticfree/lathe2.jpg
This is a comparison shot for those who wonder exactly how big the 3520 is. I always did, and it's hard to tell in pictures sometimes. Here's the headstock of the 3520B sitting on top of my entire older lathe, the 46-460.
http://i970.photobucket.com/albums/ae190/Chaoticfree/lathe3.jpg
Closer shot of the controls
http://i970.photobucket.com/albums/ae190/Chaoticfree/lathe5.jpg
Fully Assembled.
http://i970.photobucket.com/albums/ae190/Chaoticfree/lathe4.jpg
Close shot of the tailstock and it's cool little storage compartment.
http://i970.photobucket.com/albums/ae190/Chaoticfree/lathe6.jpg
Comparison shot of the banjo and tailstock of the 3520 and 46-460.
http://i970.photobucket.com/albums/ae190/Chaoticfree/lathe7.jpg
Side view of the lathe with the 18" extension installed in the low position for outboard turning.
http://i970.photobucket.com/albums/ae190/Chaoticfree/lathe8.jpg
A shot of the lil' tool caddy that bolts on to the side.
http://i970.photobucket.com/albums/ae190/Chaoticfree/lathe9.jpg
Finally, after wiring up the plug and seeing it worked I decided it was time to break it in. I grabbed a chunk of hackberry that I cut crooked and decided to leave it in "board" form instead of cutting into the circular shape on the bandsaw. I'd call this slightly unbalanced. It cleared the ways but not by much. 48 seems to be the lowest RPM I can get before it simply stops rotating. I stood to the side, flipped the cage down and turned it up to 500 or (cringing) but there was 0 vibration. This was a revelation to me after pushing the 46-460 pretty hard the last few weeks.
http://i970.photobucket.com/albums/ae190/Chaoticfree/lathe10.jpg
After playing with the speed knob a bit I got down to business and started roughing. I was very happy with my new ability to take big and deep roughing cuts without it bogging down at all. I can tell a catch on this thing will be slightly more serious than on my smaller lathe.
http://i970.photobucket.com/albums/ae190/Chaoticfree/lathe11.jpg
That crack you see in the previous picture turned out to be quite deep and I chased it pretty far down before it finally turned to staining in the end grain instead of an actual crack. Here is the kinda weird final outside shape I ended up with.
http://i970.photobucket.com/albums/ae190/Chaoticfree/lathe12.jpg
Time to test the sliding headstock and outboard turning. The head stock slid very smoothly. It's very easy to move this thing from front to back. Here you can see the tool rest extension supplied with the bed extension.
http://i970.photobucket.com/albums/ae190/Chaoticfree/lathe13.jpg
Here is the bowl, mostly hollowed out. You can see I was practicing cutting techniques on the side. Still need lot's of practice.
http://i970.photobucket.com/albums/ae190/Chaoticfree/lathe14.jpg
And here is the roughed out bowl, waiting to dry.
http://i970.photobucket.com/albums/ae190/Chaoticfree/lathe15.jpg
I'm thrilled with this lathe, I'm going to be going nuts the next few days roughing out all sorts of bowls and platters and such. The 46-460 is amazing for it's size and price, but this...This is something altogether different. The only thing I've found so far that I'd change is the spindle lock. I'm not sure what they were thinking with that. You have to hold it in to keep it locking the spindle, not a very good design. Oh well, it's minor.
Very happy.
This is what I came up with to solo assemble it. I stood up one leg, placed a sawhorse with some boards underneath on the opposite side to raise it higher than the second leg. Grabbed the bed and put it down across all three. I bolted on the first leg...
http://i970.photobucket.com/albums/ae190/Chaoticfree/lathe1.jpg
Then slid the sawhorse out and bumped the second leg up until the holes lined up. That took care of the hard part.
http://i970.photobucket.com/albums/ae190/Chaoticfree/lathe2.jpg
This is a comparison shot for those who wonder exactly how big the 3520 is. I always did, and it's hard to tell in pictures sometimes. Here's the headstock of the 3520B sitting on top of my entire older lathe, the 46-460.
http://i970.photobucket.com/albums/ae190/Chaoticfree/lathe3.jpg
Closer shot of the controls
http://i970.photobucket.com/albums/ae190/Chaoticfree/lathe5.jpg
Fully Assembled.
http://i970.photobucket.com/albums/ae190/Chaoticfree/lathe4.jpg
Close shot of the tailstock and it's cool little storage compartment.
http://i970.photobucket.com/albums/ae190/Chaoticfree/lathe6.jpg
Comparison shot of the banjo and tailstock of the 3520 and 46-460.
http://i970.photobucket.com/albums/ae190/Chaoticfree/lathe7.jpg
Side view of the lathe with the 18" extension installed in the low position for outboard turning.
http://i970.photobucket.com/albums/ae190/Chaoticfree/lathe8.jpg
A shot of the lil' tool caddy that bolts on to the side.
http://i970.photobucket.com/albums/ae190/Chaoticfree/lathe9.jpg
Finally, after wiring up the plug and seeing it worked I decided it was time to break it in. I grabbed a chunk of hackberry that I cut crooked and decided to leave it in "board" form instead of cutting into the circular shape on the bandsaw. I'd call this slightly unbalanced. It cleared the ways but not by much. 48 seems to be the lowest RPM I can get before it simply stops rotating. I stood to the side, flipped the cage down and turned it up to 500 or (cringing) but there was 0 vibration. This was a revelation to me after pushing the 46-460 pretty hard the last few weeks.
http://i970.photobucket.com/albums/ae190/Chaoticfree/lathe10.jpg
After playing with the speed knob a bit I got down to business and started roughing. I was very happy with my new ability to take big and deep roughing cuts without it bogging down at all. I can tell a catch on this thing will be slightly more serious than on my smaller lathe.
http://i970.photobucket.com/albums/ae190/Chaoticfree/lathe11.jpg
That crack you see in the previous picture turned out to be quite deep and I chased it pretty far down before it finally turned to staining in the end grain instead of an actual crack. Here is the kinda weird final outside shape I ended up with.
http://i970.photobucket.com/albums/ae190/Chaoticfree/lathe12.jpg
Time to test the sliding headstock and outboard turning. The head stock slid very smoothly. It's very easy to move this thing from front to back. Here you can see the tool rest extension supplied with the bed extension.
http://i970.photobucket.com/albums/ae190/Chaoticfree/lathe13.jpg
Here is the bowl, mostly hollowed out. You can see I was practicing cutting techniques on the side. Still need lot's of practice.
http://i970.photobucket.com/albums/ae190/Chaoticfree/lathe14.jpg
And here is the roughed out bowl, waiting to dry.
http://i970.photobucket.com/albums/ae190/Chaoticfree/lathe15.jpg
I'm thrilled with this lathe, I'm going to be going nuts the next few days roughing out all sorts of bowls and platters and such. The 46-460 is amazing for it's size and price, but this...This is something altogether different. The only thing I've found so far that I'd change is the spindle lock. I'm not sure what they were thinking with that. You have to hold it in to keep it locking the spindle, not a very good design. Oh well, it's minor.
Very happy.