Making plans to build a concrete bowl lathe - opinions welcome.

[Malcolm Tibbetts]

Mark, I’m kind of late to the party here, but I thought that I’d pass on this link to you:
http://www.liamoneill.com/biography.html
I had the pleasure of being a demonstrator at this year’s Irish symposium and I had the good fortune to spend some time with Liam O’Neill. For those that don’t know of Liam, he is one of the true legends in woodturning. He not only founded the Irish Woodturning Guild, he also played a part in the formation of the AAW. Liam’s current focus is on large outdoor sculptural pieces. There are a couple of photos of his concrete lathe set-up on his website. He’s an incredibly nice guy and I’m sure he would share his concrete lathe experiences with you.
Good luck.

[Mark Norman]

Ray, A few months back Mark had some family issues to attend to and we are allowing him to get things back to normal. So we will have to wait and see what ever happened to the Concrete Beast.

Mark, If you are still checking in once in a while send me a PM or I will drop you and e-mail or something. I want to be able to get the bowl I am working on for you to you.

Take care and God Bless us all at this time of the year,

Jeff

I'm here bro! And I have evicted the black widders from the workshop and got back into the swing of things. I have completed a couple of projects recently and I have plans for a friend of mine to come up and weld the ways on the beast so I can make wood spin once again.

Life is getting back on track for me and I will try not to be such a stranger here at the creek.

PM sent my friend.

Malcom, I will check out the link you provided I just wanted to reply to Jeff right away. You are not far from me, if yer ever in my neck of the woods please stop by and I'll let ya take the beast for a test spin, I still have some of the claro walnut and a wide selection of oak trees that are getting scared of me chain saw as I type this.

I'll start a new thread on my latest project(s) as time permits.

Next is a woodworking workbench. <looking around for plans>

[Steve Schlumpf]

Welcome back Mark! Looking forward to seeing your new projects!

[Kevin L. Pauba]

I'm very happy that you're back to posting! Keep 'em coming ...

[alex carey]

nice to have you back mark, hope all is well.

[Rick Prosser]

Glad to see you are back Mark !

[Richard Madison]

Great to have you back Mark!

[Mark Norman]

Thanks for the warm reception. Now that the weather is warming up I plan on spending more time out in the shop. I'll keep ya posted.

[Jeff Nicol]

Mark, It is almost biblical or your absence and your fresh resurrection, we are all glad that life has gotten back to normal for you. Start a new thread so we can keep up this one is MASSIVE!!

Get spinning!

Jeff

[Mark Norman]

..... Start a new thread so we can keep up this one is MASSIVE!!

Get spinning!

Jeff

Why wood I want to start a new thread and let this one die Jeff?

Its my signature thread on the forum

I finaly got my buddy to drag his welder up the mountian and give me a hand welding up the ways for the beast. Took about two hours, measuring, aligning and welding it all up. I am very pleased with the final result. Using a digital level and ligning up the ways with the spinde within a 1/16" was easier than I thought. I'll be fabricating a tailstock and banjo soon.

I got a few pics with my cell phone, poor quality but better than nothing



My friend Paul posing for the camera after ligning up the ways:



After it was all tacked together Paul lays some beads:



Cutting off the extra 3/8" plate steel:



Need some clean up with a grinder and some paint:



More to come, I'll get some better pics after I clean up all the welds and give the steel a protective finish. I'll use a good automotive paint with hardner.


Hmmmm what color....certianly NOT yellow

[Jeff Nicol]

Mark, I was just thinking it could go to part II so that we all don't get lost looking for where we are at on it. It has so many off shoots and quick replies that It sometimes takes me 10 min to see where you are at if I miss a post or have not checked in for a fe days.

But anyway, looks good on the ways and now you can do some spindle turning on the beast! I think the color should be the same as the Camaro was going to be with some nice pinstriping and stuff!

Have fun,

Jeff

[Mark Norman]

It would be fitting to have the dark grey, I just might do that.


As for getting lost in the thread go to user control panel>edit options>thread display options>mode> choose linear - oldest first = and you will never get lost in another thread.

I have a thread at NastyZ that has gone +50k replies. its sort of a cyber bar where we just bs about daily life.

Want to see a pictorial Camaro restoration from start to finish? see Guy's project thread that is pushing 6k posts:

nastyz28.com/forum/showthread.php?t=124724

[Leo Van Der Loo]

2683A is the # for the 24" toolrest base from Oneway, the price on the Oneway price list of December 2009 that I have here, is $291.95 Cnd.

[Mark Norman]

Thanks leo, but an extra $300 is not in the budget any time soon. I'll just fabricate something out of hardwood for both the banjo and tail stock. Finding the threaded bits for the tailstock will be the challenge.

[Leo Van Der Loo]

Find an old wood or metal lathe that's scrap, and use the parts from the tailstock to use on yours, yes the Oneway isn't cheap, I guess you pay for what you get there :-))