It's been a while since I have posted any turnings so I thought I would pop in and say Hi.
I have been busy with a few other projects and since I did use a lathe on one of the projects I figured I would show a couple of them off here .
One of my many hobbies is restoring old wood working machines. That's what got interested in turning, after restoring an old lathe. One of the projects I have been working on is restoring a Rockwell 1/2 inch shaper with a 2 HP Leason motor. It was in pretty good shape, just needed some rust removal, a few adjustments and a new fence that I made out of chunk of curly maple I had kicking around under the bench.
The other project is a Milwaukee drill press I rescued from going to the junk yard. It was in pieces and in rough shape but the bearings were good so I completely stripped it down, rebuilt and repainted it.
What it looked like when I got it:
You can see how rusty the column was (right side of pic) so I turned some plugs, shoved them in the ends and mounted it to my lathe. Cranked her up to about 600 rpms and hit it with some 150 to 2000 grit sand paper. Its nice and purdy now.
and this is what it looks like now. I think it will be a great DP. It has a huge 1/2 HP Baldor motor on it and 3 1/2" of quill travel, which is a lot better than the 2 1/2" on my new Delta. It will be nice drilling pen blanks without having to stop and raise the table.
I also really like the built in light underneath the head.
If you are interested you can see a few more of my restro projects by Clicking Here.
Thanks for lookin ... I should have some christmas turnings down soon and will post them here when I am finished.
Happy Turnings,
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