Greetings everyone, and Happy New Year to you all!
As many of you know, I teach turning lessons, and have people come from all over the place. Well, my most recent visitor came today, all the way from Minnesota. Well, he didn't come all the way from MN today, but he arranged for the lesson during his holiday vacation while in the area visiting family. Now, when people come to turn with me, one of my standard questions is, "How tall are you?" My lathe is set for me at 6'2", and often I need to accomodate shorter people with various platforms I build. When I wrote Russ and asked this question, he wrote back and said not to worry. Below you can see why.
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Believe it or not, I am the little guy on the left. We had a great time talking about big guy stuff and turning bowls, and I sent him on his way with a couple of roughed out apricot bowls and a shiny flat round thing.
Bill