Wood Lathe

Glenn Deneweth

Glenn Deneweth

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Let me first say that this is an excellent forum, and I really appreciate reading what all the cue makers have to offer. These people who spent years learning this craft, and willing to give away all this free information...well they must be nuts!

I am and have been investigating this hobby (It will only be a hobby for me) for about 1.5 years. I got the interested after visiting Mike Pancerny's shop, and it went from wanting to buy one of his cues to eventually wanting to make my own. Obviously I haven't been in too much of a hurry, but I am getting more and more excited to purchase a lathe, as soon as I decide on one.

But in the mean time, my father has a 36" wood lathe, completely rebuilt, it's older but in great shape. Is this something that I would benefit from having in my shop? The price is definatley right.... What do you think?

Glenn
 
Jack Flanagan said:
? make, model, pictures might help someone take a stab at an answer,,,,jflan
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Pictures will be difficult (It's behind a lot of stuff), but can get the make and model as soon as I get over there to do it.

Glenn
 
I'm about in the same boat as you are but I've recently acquired some equipment that will help me take the next step. From the research I've done, a wood lathe would be handy but not necessary. It may help you do some experimenting in the beginning but may become unnecessary as you get more equipment. You may want a cheap wood lathe around for doing wraps and finishing but they can be cheap and you'll probably want to make one variable speed. My unexperienced opinion would be to get it if it's cheap but pass it by if it will prevent you from getting something more useful in the short term.

Hope that helps.

Scott
 
Scott Behrens said:
My unexperienced opinion would be to get it if it's cheap but pass it by if it will prevent you from getting something more useful in the short term.
Scott
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Is free cheap enough?

Glenn
 
Hi Glenn,
Nice to see you here....
That lathe can be fitted with a 3 jaw chuck and would make a great machine for sanding shafts, especially with a nice down draft table to keep down the dust in the shop.
Had an old wood lathe I sold years ago that I wish I'd kept for just this purpose.
Mike
 
Glenn Deneweth said:
Let me first say that this is an excellent forum, and I really appreciate reading what all the cue makers have to offer. These people who spent years learning this craft, and willing to give away all this free information...well they must be nuts!

I am and have been investigating this hobby (It will only be a hobby for me) for about 1.5 years. I got the interested after visiting Mike Pancerny's shop, and it went from wanting to buy one of his cues to eventually wanting to make my own. Obviously I haven't been in too much of a hurry, but I am getting more and more excited to purchase a lathe, as soon as I decide on one.

But in the mean time, my father has a 36" wood lathe, completely rebuilt, it's older but in great shape. Is this something that I would benefit from having in my shop? The price is definatley right.... What do you think?

Glenn
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I have three of them in my shop. One for finishing, one for wraping and one for sanding.
 
> I have one myself,a Chinese make,and this is the reason I post this. Most 3 jaw chucks you will run into,particularly the great ones Chris sells,are either 3/4-16, or 1"-8 TPI,the one I have has a 18mm-2.5 metric thread,and I had to get adapters made to screw on over the spindle and tailstock spindle before being able to attach the chuck and tailstock chuck,which on mine is a 1/2-20 Jacobs that can be bought in most hardware stores for about 20 bucks. The adapters cost me 35 each to have made by a local machine shop before I started machinists school. The 3-jaw I bought from Chris was 100 at the time. Make sure everything is good and tight,mine vibrated less after I tightened everything up. Make sure the switch is in good shape too,and unless you really get lucky and everything runs totally smooth,do NOT spin a shaft at much speed at all without a cupped/concave live center on the other end,you might have a lathe pin for a shaft that will not screw in all the way,leaving the undercut on the pin exposed,and the vibration/runout cause the shaft to snap out of your hand and bend your lathe pin,like I did. This is common with 5/16-14 pins,as most of the ones that fit a Joss shaft fine tend to bind up in a Schon shaft insert. You will either have to make or buy 2 slightly different pins for this size,or make one undersized,or risk offending a customer by running a tap into their insert. Tommy D.
 
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