Did anyone else see Norm's Lathe episode?
I watched the New Yankee Workshop on Saturday (PBS) and Norm dedicated the whole show to the lathe.
He started out with a green piece of firewood and made a cylinder. It was painful to watch. Norm made it look hard. Maybe if I had not seen Richard Raffan's "Turning Wood" DVD, where he makes it look so easy...
In any case, he went on to turn a bat and a table leg (using a skew to finish ).
In any case, Norm usually makes everything look so easy, but he did not look comfortable on the lathe.
Nathan