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Newbie looking for lathe time

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Greg Haggard

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Newbie here, and relatively new to woodturning. Prior to moving to Western MA in October, I was a member of Lowell Makes, where they have a couple of really nice Rikon lathes.

I hope to have space to set up my own lathe and shop in the near future, but am wondering if anyone has suggestions for acquiring lathe time in the area. From what I can tell, makerspaces around here don't really have decent functional lathes if any.
 
Contact your local turning club and I bet you'll find some folks happy to share. (It is Santa's Workshop season, so they might be too busy for a few weeks)

You can find your local club on the AAW web site (woodturner.org), click on "Chapters", then "Find a", then put in MA, NY, and maybe some of those bitty surrounding states, since the closest chapter may be over the border.

From your description, I'd guess it'll be the Western Massachusetts Woodturners, in West Springfield. They probably have a web site.
 
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