I bought a mini lathe 2 months ago because I thought it might be fun. I'm still very early in the learning curve, so my bowls and birdhouses won't turn many heads around here. Some of you guys are artists way beyond woodworkers, and I think I'm enjoying turning enough to stick with it, whether or not I have the imagination to pull off some of the fantastic things I see here.
Anyway, I have limited space available and needed a small mobile apparatus I could roll easily roll out of the way, so an $89 tool chest bottom from Lowe's and some scrap wood later I threw this together
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It's not fancy or precise, but it works like a charm for me.