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I have the same lathe under Sears’ Dunlap labeling with part number 534.0601. Bought it about 15 years ago and restored it. Just took a couple pics. My thrust bearing is, like in the VM pictures, to the left of the stepped pulley. I vaguely remember struggling with the best place to install...

My woodcraft is about a $9.00 round trip worth of gas. Fortunately I’ll be out that way tomorrow anyway so I’ll probably drop in.

That looks sweet! Nice job. 👍

I carved a Bellamy-style eagle in a class last year and I finally got around to painting it. Just have to fashion a hanger for it and put it up on the wall.

I’d give them a call and ask about it.

Yeah that looks like wenge in reverse. I’ve never seen it look like that, but who knows? Did you buy it online?

That’s a pretty wood. And a great picture for lowering the blood pressure at the office!

That’s some well thought out equipment! I’ve only made a couple of frames over the years, but with my wife painting much more, I may have to copy your setup to help with accuracy and consistency. That miter jig looks great.

Thanks! I don’t yet have a decent miter gauge for my table saw so I cut the miters on the chop saw (Bosch 12” glider). I spent a good amount of time dialing it in when I first bought it and the 45’s seemed pretty darn close now. For the splines I used this jig to cut the slots after gluing up...

My wife is a painter and asked me to frame up a recent painting. Maple with walnut miter splines.

Craftsman toolbox to join the collection for $10 and some cd’s for $1 apiece.

The Rikon you mention is on sale at woodcraft for $855 thru March 14. Includes Z3 chuck.

I have five- red, yellow, green, blue and violet. I have them set up that way from 120 grit at red to 800 grit at violet and also have the grit marked on each with permanent marker. I find it really helps me to keep track while I’m moving between grits.

One of the benefits of joining a local turning club is that members (or families of recently deceased members) donate lathes and tools to the club. These get auctioned off to raise money for the club or to help the family. In the two years I’ve been a member of our club we’ve had three lathes...

You tell us! I’ve seen them for sale but haven’t bought one. I use the preppin’ weapon hand sanding blocks.

Sounds like the best option.

Actually this is not the case. I have come across this on three separate occasions since posting this, and have verified that the refreshed General Tool Discussion on the main forum page shows “Show your new tool arrivals” as having been posted to in the past few minutes and immediately...

My wife asked for a French rolling pin. What could be easier for a woodturner? And I still managed to have a minor catch when I was making “one last cut!” I took a guess at the dimensions. If it doesn’t work out in practice I can make a different one.

I have a pair of Fiskars bypass loppers with extendable handles. The geometry of these means that at maximum extension, it is difficult to spread them apart enough to allow the business end to open fully for a larger branch. In essence you use the extendability to reach further away branches...

You use them like the Thigh Master?????😁