As a lifelong machinist I wish you the best of luck with your lathe. It is said that a lathe is the only machine tool capable of reproducing itself. I can also say that after operating lathes (and all the other industrial machine tools) for nearly 40 years myself, even I am still learning new tricks.
Like any other type of metal cutting equipment a lathe is designed to remove metal (or many other materials); life & limb / flesh and bone are no exceptions. Learn the fundamentals and always BE safe!
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I do what I can, when I can, the best I can - with what I have to work with!
trying-it (AKA: Stan)
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