My new toy

Nowicki

Nowicki

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I spent all day Sunday tearing down a lathe at a friend's basement and resembling it in my shop. For me it is a biggin. It's an interrupted 13"/18" by/6'. I got most of the tooling too. She still needs a little clean up but all is running and works.
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Looks nice. I remember the first time i used a lathe here at the shop i was in love.
 
Yeah, but is it big enough to turn pivots? :D
 
Nice score Larry! And a gap-bed too! Don't keep it just for knife stuff, you'll be able to turn brake rotors and flywheels if you want to! :)

-d
 
You may not know this yet, but those things make real good cooling racks to put hot blades on, and are perfect to stack handle blocks up on when cutting a couple hundred blocks.:D

Nice score.:thumbup:

I just lucked into a small milling machine with an upgraded set of tracks and X-Y feeds. It comes with special small item clamping fixture, and a good bit of tooling. The owner manufactures some sort of medical instrument and wanted to mill a part himself.He bought the mill and set it all up, made ten parts, and decided to contract them out to a professional shop. He spent right at $1000 for the mill, plus the tooling. He is selling it to me for $300.....and delivering it 200 miles ( he comes through my town about once a month).:)

Stacy
 
Looks like you got a great deal. :thumbup:



bladsmth said:
I just lucked into a small milling machine with an upgraded set of tracks and X-Y feeds. It comes with special small item clamping fixture, and a good bit of tooling. The owner manufactures some sort of medical instrument and wanted to mill a part himself.He bought the mill and set it all up, made ten parts, and decided to contract them out to a professional shop. He spent right at $1000 for the mill, plus the tooling. He is selling it to me for $300.....and delivering it 200 miles ( he comes through my town about once a month).:)

Stacy
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Cool. I don't think I've ever used my lathe for knifemaking yet, but certainly comes in handy around the shop for making other things.
 
I think it will come in handy for turning pommels, spacers and guards. Maybe some fluted handles and many other things I haven't thought of yet.
 
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