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Theres a saying, buy expensive cry once, buy cheap cry forever. While both are great choices I think after the PM3520 shows up at your door you will forget about the price difference and be happy.
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Looks exactly like some honey locust bowls I have turned.

I have the WoodCraft casters on my Jet 1442. I have been using them for over a year with no issues.

Very nice looking shop! Thats alot of steel city, and you live in Palatine. Let me guess, you go to woodcraft alot? :)

I do not think he bought the Knap, I watch this show all the time. I think that he borrowed some money with the Knap as collateral. If the customer does not pay, then I guess we can say he bought it.

Wow those look great! Anyone have an idea how to get this article, I was born several months before it was published. Thanks.

I think the issue may be with safety for the others. You can hit yourself in the hand with a hammer, it it much harder to hit someone else in the hand. I understand the issue of falling hammers, I...

Jeff,
Maybe something along these lines might work. You just can't just the full bit height.

http://www.rockler.com/product.cfm?page=5302&filter=handrail%20bit

I turn my bowls with a V shape bowl gouge. I can get a nice cut but nothing I would consider final. For that I use a 1 1/4" inboard bowl scraper. The thing works wonders. I used to use a round nose...

I use the lathe to drill pen blanks because I do not have a drill press. I mount the pen blank, one half at a time in my lathe chuck. In the tail stock I have a jacobs chuck with the proper drill...

Cichlids.... Excellent. I love how these hobbies go together.I currently have 20 tanks with cichlids from all over.

Great looking stand! What kind of fish do you keep?

Wow I really like that. I have not seen that done before, mixing acrylic and wood like that. How did you glue it up? Thanks.

What about turning the buttons. It would be like a coaster, shouldn't be to hard to do. Let me know if your intrested in something like that.

Hi Toni,
Welcome to the Creek!

I have been to several local trophy shops. The rates they gave me from engraving were reasonable. I would engrave names or company names.

Radek

I mark the center of the blank. Put the drill chuck with drill bit in the tail stock. Bring it up to the blank that is sitting loosly in the lathe chuck. Line up the center of the drill bit with the...

Wow. That is just beautiful. I have read articles about making my own fly rod before but I have not seen anyone make one yet.

I agree with Steve and Alex. The chuck itself costs close to that price. So you end up with a free outrigger. Go for it.

Radek

Those handles look real nice and should be a pleasure to use.

I was wondering if that depth drill is supposed to drill stock through the punch out hole?

I use casters on my Jet 1442 and I see no problems with it. I do not move it often but I do like having the lathe raised up higher because I am 6' 6". I bought the casters from woodcraft and they...

Reed,
You said you try not to core anything smaller then 8x3". Ok so if you start out with a 12x5" blank, how many bowls can you make? I've read that its 1 bowl for every inch of depth. I will be...

I purchased the set with the ash handles because they looked better made and the steel had a better finish on it. I personally did not know there was a slight difference between the sets.

Ok, Thanks for all the replies so far. I have decided on a McNaughton system just because I can upgrade my lathe futher down the road and keep using the same system.

Which set of blades should I...

First time in a while, I finally have no class saturday and I finally get somewhat of a weekend.
So my plans are:
Finish a honey locust bowl
Do water changes in the fishroom
Seal some logs...

Hey Creekers,
I have started to turn more and more green wood and while wood shavings isn't an issue I have recently started to think about saving the center. A couple days ago I got a good ammount...