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I'm needing to upgrade my shop a bit- I've been living in the old school days for 3 years, with a belt grinder and a harbor freight baby drill press, an angle grinder with cutoff wheels, and a seldom used buffer as my only shop tools.
A while back I got a bandsaw, which helps a lot.
I'm finding- both for the knife shop and for my son's education and projects, that I need more. But affording more is an issue. I'm going to go ahead and buy a mill this year, but getting a lathe is a huge issue.
I found this:
http://www.vintageprojects.com/machine-shop/lathe-modelling.html
Grab the PDF and read along.
So far, I'm changing the length of the ways to 18 inches. I'm hoping it will be sturdy enough to hold that. I may raise the stock spindles another inch or so so I can turn grinder wheels at a reasonable diameter. spec is 4.5 inch, if I raise an inch I'll have 6.5.... if I go 2.0 inches higher I'll be able to turn contact wheels......
photos coming after I get a few more hacksaw cuts done and square everything up for the bed build.
A while back I got a bandsaw, which helps a lot.
I'm finding- both for the knife shop and for my son's education and projects, that I need more. But affording more is an issue. I'm going to go ahead and buy a mill this year, but getting a lathe is a huge issue.
I found this:
http://www.vintageprojects.com/machine-shop/lathe-modelling.html
Grab the PDF and read along.
So far, I'm changing the length of the ways to 18 inches. I'm hoping it will be sturdy enough to hold that. I may raise the stock spindles another inch or so so I can turn grinder wheels at a reasonable diameter. spec is 4.5 inch, if I raise an inch I'll have 6.5.... if I go 2.0 inches higher I'll be able to turn contact wheels......
photos coming after I get a few more hacksaw cuts done and square everything up for the bed build.
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