Greeting from Hong Kong, this will be my first post here.
I would like to ask some experience turners what do you think about making a small lathe from bench grinder. I have seen the youtube video in some post here with a guy who did something similar and the opinions were not so positive. My case is bit different. I need to turn some 4 inch diameter, one inch thick wooden discs for my project. I bought a 6' bench grinder with variable speed 2000-3000 rpm, I'm thinking to ad an external speed controller to lower the the rpm even more for detailing if needed and fix the work piece on small faceplate. I would use small set of Proxxon tools. Variable speed bench grinder seems a good solution to me. I'm wondering what could go wrong because I haven't seen much of similar DIY projects on English sites (there are some Russian though). I would really appreciate your feedback. Thanks