My First Wood Lathe

[Brian Brightwell]

I went to Evansville, Indiana to purchase my first wood lathe. I have not used a wood lathe sense doing my student teaching at Chillicothe, Ill. in 1976. I buy almost all my tools on the cheap and I just never found a wood lathe at a good price. It was about 5 degrees outside when I unloaded it.

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I don't even have any lathe tools for it yet so I borrowed some. The first thing I made was a handle for my cant hook.
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[Brice Rogers]

Wow! What a great first lathe. It will be one that you can use and keep as long as you want. No need to upgrade.

[Harold Balzonia]

Reminds me of when I got my first car.....

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[Brian Brightwell]

That was my intention, no upgrade needed.

[William C Rogers]

Congrats on your lathe. PM sent.

[John K Jordan]

I went to Evansville, Indiana to purchase my first wood lathe.

That's cheating! You're supposed to buy a really cheap and bad lathe at first and suffer for a while like everyone else. THEN get the good lathe. Good grief... :)

You will LOVE that lathe. And nice job on the cant hook handle. I have two, one large with a 5' handle and one smaller. I'm considering making a longer handle for the smaller one for turning big logs on the sawmill. I wonder how many people here use their lathes to make tool handles. I do recommend getting a bed extension at some point!

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[Neil McWilliams]

That is a wonderful lathe. If you tell us you purchased it for less that $2k, I will cry tears of joy and incredulity for you.

[Brian Brightwell]

Yes John , I know I went about it the wrong way but I have learned that I almost never get value out of cheep tools. Also, the resale on lathes is very good, not that I am going to sell.

[Brian Brightwell]

No Neil, it was more than 2K but it was a good buy.
I really love the air museum on the Navy base in Pensacola.

[Mark Greenbaum]

Nice - you know you can't hook without a cant handle! Congrats.

[Lamar Wright]

Very nice first lathe and probably the last you will ever need!