My old Craftsman 103.23070 wood lathe

[ken werner]

I'm curious Roy, what kind of paint did you use.

[Roy Bauman]

Thanks guys, I appreciate the kudos.

Charlie, this one is right around the same age as yours. It was originally gray and my uncle put the red paint on before he gave it to my dad. The locking lever on the tail stock was my idea. I put that on so I didn't have to use a wrench on it.

Ken, I used a couple of rattle cans of Rustoleum 'Smoke Gray' and the knobs and handles are painted with Rustoleum Metallic Finish Silver.

[ken werner]

Roy, your label is great! How did you match the Craftsman font so well?

[Rob Keeble]

Well done Roy I was going to ask about the spray job too Ken beat me to it. For rattle can that came out wonderful, looked to me like a pro spray painter job. Many years left in that baby.

[Roy Bauman]

Roy, your label is great! How did you match the Craftsman font so well?

I drew the label in AutoCAD. I downloaded a few pictures off the internet, took what dimensions I could off the old badge and drew the font using linework and then infilled with a solid hatch pattern. I forget the name of the font I used for the other lettering, it is not a perfect match to the original but it is as close a match as I could find.

[ken werner]

Sure looks good from where I'm sitting. Nicely done, sir. It would be cool if we could archive it here, so that others could use it on re-dos, with your permission, of course.

[Roy Bauman]

I'd be happy to put it out there for anyone to use, no permission required. How do I go about archiving it?

[ken werner]

Thanks very much Roy, we're figuring it out.