Greetings wood spinners!
While I have been able to do most everything I want on the old ‘smith, the drawbacks involve moving a lot of metal around to do those things. Couple that with my degenerating body and I have been thinking of revising my system a bit. I looked at mounting a bench top size unit onto the way tubes of my old ‘smith. That turned out not to work for the lathe I wanted, the PM 2014, so I shoved some stuff around and ordered a Powermatic 2014, with stand. It should show up in a couple of weeks. I will have to place it next to the old machine, and it looks like if I butt the feet of the new unit up against the old units base that I will have just enough space to work in.
I may keep the ‘smith for the bandsaw and the other tricks that it can do. I looked at dedicated bandsaws but they didn’t look to save me any space. The ‘smith bandsaw has a 6 inch vertical cut ability, and to get any more is getting spendy.
on another note, I’m turning some very wet Siberian black elm burl. It’s a small chunk, but a good practice piece.
Best, Spike
While I have been able to do most everything I want on the old ‘smith, the drawbacks involve moving a lot of metal around to do those things. Couple that with my degenerating body and I have been thinking of revising my system a bit. I looked at mounting a bench top size unit onto the way tubes of my old ‘smith. That turned out not to work for the lathe I wanted, the PM 2014, so I shoved some stuff around and ordered a Powermatic 2014, with stand. It should show up in a couple of weeks. I will have to place it next to the old machine, and it looks like if I butt the feet of the new unit up against the old units base that I will have just enough space to work in.
I may keep the ‘smith for the bandsaw and the other tricks that it can do. I looked at dedicated bandsaws but they didn’t look to save me any space. The ‘smith bandsaw has a 6 inch vertical cut ability, and to get any more is getting spendy.
on another note, I’m turning some very wet Siberian black elm burl. It’s a small chunk, but a good practice piece.
Best, Spike
