Greetings All:
I'm very much a newby here. I've never turned an inch of anything on a lathe; wood or metal. I am however an old tired construction hand with 30+ years in the electrical end of things. I taught apprenticeship school for many years and know my way around woodworking. I've got a pretty well equipped but tiny shop with the usual; band, table and radial arm saws, planer, jointer, drill press, compressed air and every hand held power tool known to man. Many of them in twos.
I'm scheduled to attend the general meeting of "Nevada Woodchucks" an AAW affiliated local club and hope to get set up to participate in their twice monthly turners meetings. So there you go.
I've retired myself as a private pilot recently, I'm too old and too poor for that stuff any longer. The airplanes are for sale and maybe the house too. I'd like a bigger shop. I'm eyeballing lathes from Powermatic, Robust, Jet, Laguna etc. etc.
I've lived in California, Washington, and Alaska and now live in Sparks Nevada. I've lived in houses, RVs and on big boats. I play music from time to time and run the powerpoint and lyric slide operation for my church. I'm 68 years old and love dogs and most people.
Here's a picture of my 1920 something Boyce-Crane 14" snowflake.
Cheers and all
Dan
I'm very much a newby here. I've never turned an inch of anything on a lathe; wood or metal. I am however an old tired construction hand with 30+ years in the electrical end of things. I taught apprenticeship school for many years and know my way around woodworking. I've got a pretty well equipped but tiny shop with the usual; band, table and radial arm saws, planer, jointer, drill press, compressed air and every hand held power tool known to man. Many of them in twos.
I'm scheduled to attend the general meeting of "Nevada Woodchucks" an AAW affiliated local club and hope to get set up to participate in their twice monthly turners meetings. So there you go.
I've retired myself as a private pilot recently, I'm too old and too poor for that stuff any longer. The airplanes are for sale and maybe the house too. I'd like a bigger shop. I'm eyeballing lathes from Powermatic, Robust, Jet, Laguna etc. etc.
I've lived in California, Washington, and Alaska and now live in Sparks Nevada. I've lived in houses, RVs and on big boats. I play music from time to time and run the powerpoint and lyric slide operation for my church. I'm 68 years old and love dogs and most people.
Here's a picture of my 1920 something Boyce-Crane 14" snowflake.
Cheers and all
Dan
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