Ken Cook
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Some may recall where I set up my lathe...
Well, it was too close to my bench to allow me to stand to the left of the headstock, leaving me feeling confined and contorted on occasion. So I decided to move it elsewhere. This thought got me thinking{yeah I do that once in a while } that I should do something towards sharpening, storage etc. - So I unleashed the hillbilly in me once again, to slap up another bench using scraps...I can't throw nothing away it seems, more so now that I've been unemployed for what seems like forever...any~who here's a look-see...
Now onto the lathe...some may find this sacrilegious, but I let my lathe {bed/tube?} fall on my sawz-all leaving me with about 18 & 1/2" between centers...I like it! and besides I've already been having dreams of something newer, stronger, faster, bionic, whoops to much TV
Here's the new set-up...leaves me plenty of room to stand where I please...
Here's what I cut off...
Now the wife isn't the only one with a triangle workspace
and my first attempt with some red oak, finished with a variety mixture of almost empty min-wax stain/sealer with a paste wax topcoat for why-not...
Think the rest of the weekend will be spent mulching up the rest of the spalted before it turns to dust where it sits...Have a great weekend everyone!
Well, it was too close to my bench to allow me to stand to the left of the headstock, leaving me feeling confined and contorted on occasion. So I decided to move it elsewhere. This thought got me thinking{yeah I do that once in a while } that I should do something towards sharpening, storage etc. - So I unleashed the hillbilly in me once again, to slap up another bench using scraps...I can't throw nothing away it seems, more so now that I've been unemployed for what seems like forever...any~who here's a look-see...
Now onto the lathe...some may find this sacrilegious, but I let my lathe {bed/tube?} fall on my sawz-all leaving me with about 18 & 1/2" between centers...I like it! and besides I've already been having dreams of something newer, stronger, faster, bionic, whoops to much TV
Here's the new set-up...leaves me plenty of room to stand where I please...
Here's what I cut off...
Now the wife isn't the only one with a triangle workspace
and my first attempt with some red oak, finished with a variety mixture of almost empty min-wax stain/sealer with a paste wax topcoat for why-not...
Think the rest of the weekend will be spent mulching up the rest of the spalted before it turns to dust where it sits...Have a great weekend everyone!