Hi,
This is my first post. I have enjoyed turning for close to 30 years. Being a high school shop teacher I've always had a couple old rockwell lathes to use in my school shop. They are fair lathes. I am building a shop behind my house and want to put the best lathe and bandsaw in it that I can afford. I have got into selling turkey calls and crow calls that I turn and hope to get into selling a few bowls in the future. Being able to set up a chuck on the inboard and outboard side of the 1640 will make it like having two lathes when making turkey calls. I use different jaws for the steps in making them. With the 1640 can I have a chuck set up on both inboard and outboard end of the headstock at the same time? All I would have to do is reverse the motor when I use the outboard side? I don't need a tail stock for making turkey calls.
Thanks,
Jack
This is my first post. I have enjoyed turning for close to 30 years. Being a high school shop teacher I've always had a couple old rockwell lathes to use in my school shop. They are fair lathes. I am building a shop behind my house and want to put the best lathe and bandsaw in it that I can afford. I have got into selling turkey calls and crow calls that I turn and hope to get into selling a few bowls in the future. Being able to set up a chuck on the inboard and outboard side of the 1640 will make it like having two lathes when making turkey calls. I use different jaws for the steps in making them. With the 1640 can I have a chuck set up on both inboard and outboard end of the headstock at the same time? All I would have to do is reverse the motor when I use the outboard side? I don't need a tail stock for making turkey calls.
Thanks,
Jack