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I guess I will show off a couple of items I have made.
Blanket chest made with cherry, whiteoak and purpleheart diamond inlays.Cherry end table with inlay.
B Lantz
Grizzly has a 10" lathe on sale right now for 245. Is that a good deal and a worthy tool?
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Honestly, I have never used a Grizzly lathe, but the other Grizzly tools, even the cheaper Shop Fox tools, have always treated me right. You will have to get a mandrill for it to turn pens on, they are cheap enough. You will have to know the type of mandrill you can use on it, 8tpi, 16tpi, or a number 2 MT.
I like the 1" 8tpi myself, those dang chucks are hard enough to get off at times, and 16tpi just seems a little harder. Grizzly has some nice tools, and the ones I have, are still working great after years of use. I am looking at their 10 cabinet table saw right now. But as jmriearty said, either is fine, but do make sure you get one or the other for these are the standards out there. Anything other than those 2 size are hard to find chucks for. But be advised, the lathe is the least expensive part of the package. By the time you get good quality turning tools, chucks, and so on the total cost is quite high. I make most of my turning tools.
Now for my suggestion, do not get the mini lathe. You will soon outgrow it, and wish you had a larger lathe. As for the length, hmmmm, most of my work is under 12" in length, but it is nice to turn 36" lengths at times.
jmriearty very nice work on the pens. I make segmented pens too, and thank you for your comments.
Mathman, and blantz some really fine work you guys have done, it is nice to see others work.
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Using Designer 1.187, STL importer, Center line, conforming vectors, scanning probe/PE, and the ROCK chuck.
Eddie
Now I don't know what to do. I just dropped a huge chunk of cash in a huge load of lumber so I'm not doing anything anytime soon. Maybe I will put all this on my Christmas list.
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That is beautiful work, thanks for sharing!!
Tom Watson
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