I need to stop watching UTOOB........

[Jack Gaskins]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9vZOI4Af_A

[Harry Robinette]

Your right Jack.....:D

[Brian Libby]

+1 to what Harry said:D

[Bernie Weishapl]

Ditto Jack.

[John Beaver]

Gotta get me some of those niiice gouges he's usin. You think Thompson makes em?

[Tom Wilson66]

Don't know why that seems so bad. My first "lathe" was a jacob's chuck mounted on an electric motor (1750 rpm). Tool rest was a piece of wood clamped to the bench holding the motor. Had a cheap(dull) gouge to turn with, and used files to get the final shape. Lots of sanding. Took a long time but actually managed to get some shapes. Not everyone has access to these fancy/smancy lathe thingies.

[Michael Armstrong]

An article on turning pens on the drill press published in Wood Magazine years ago was what originally sucked me into the vortex.

Michael

[Rick Markham]

This guy is light years ahead of the other guy! You have to hand it too him, he actually made a pretty decent knob, It probably took hours, but it's a knob.

[Thom Sturgill]

That's how I started! Turned some bench chisel handles back when I was collecting old hand tools. Made the decision to spend $ for my first benchtop lathe M-U-C-H easier.

[Richard Madden]

I remember about 25 yrs. ago when our son was getting interested in baseball cards and memorabilia and my wife found some Hartland figurines of Mickey Mantle, Stan Musial and Lew Burdett (sp?). Mickey and Stan were missing their bats and the wife asked if I could make some. Not having a lathe at the time...nor a drill press, I chucked a piece of dowel in a hand held drill and using files and sandpaper I made some pretty close duplicates.

[Grant Wilkinson]

I don't know what he may be doing to his drill press, putting all that lateral pressure on it, but I think it's a great idea. He has his tool rest in place and the end result is pretty good.

[Sid Matheny]

Nothing wrong starting out using a drill press. If he don't like turning after a few tries he does not have a lathe he has to sell. I have seen a lot of nice items turned on a drill press years ago.

Sid