Nobody Special Posted May 13, 2016 Share Posted May 13, 2016 A mostly finished spring lathe. I've been watching too much Woodwright's Shop and decided to make some wood gouges and chisels the other day. I've gotten tired of using the drawknife/rasp/sander to get close to round or oval handles, so I finally broke down and made one. (so now I need to make more chisels and gouges for the lathe...to make handles for the chisels and gouges, to..... Used Harry Rogers's Youtube vid for the plans, adjustable and breaks down easy. There's no hardwood at all in the thing, poles (bungee, not the traditional 20 ft sapling) and the treadle go in today, plus the pins for the poppets, from a broken garage door screw with square thread. Only real pain was cutting the mortise for the wedges in soft pine without everything chipping out. Ended up rasping it close and sanding the wedges down to fit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaughnT Posted May 19, 2016 Share Posted May 19, 2016 You're gonna have a lot of fun with that thing! Looks like a solid build. Next, you need to make a DaVinci centrifugal lathe..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eseemann Posted June 9, 2016 Share Posted June 9, 2016 Yup, that build should land you on a few more people's "Zombie Apocalypse Dream Team". That is very cool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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