Hello all, stumbled across this site looking for information on drillbits of all things, I had a look around and decided to join!
Not massively experienced with wood-butchery but lots of experience of metalworking and 'bush mechanics' - I lived & worked out of UK for many years, much of it in black Africa, FYR, Far east etc. etc.
Now settled back in UK and looking to set up a better home workshop than I currently suffer, the current Mrs. has designs on taking up woodturning and we want to get set up and a better idea of what we need (and don't need) before retirement - with current legislation that's a minimum of nine years away, so not that long to spend our hard-earned on nice-to-haves... Metal-bashing wise, we have a decent line in MIG/MAG, TIG & MMA welders together with a selection of angry grinders, metal bandsaw, pillar drill, bench grinder etc. and a lifetime of using them (not always correctly/appropriately!). Until we have a dedicated workshop, we'll get by but I'd like to explore lathe & miller options - although I've heard that if you've only space for one, then a lathe is the way to go - anyway, enough rambling for now!
Cheers.
Not massively experienced with wood-butchery but lots of experience of metalworking and 'bush mechanics' - I lived & worked out of UK for many years, much of it in black Africa, FYR, Far east etc. etc.
Now settled back in UK and looking to set up a better home workshop than I currently suffer, the current Mrs. has designs on taking up woodturning and we want to get set up and a better idea of what we need (and don't need) before retirement - with current legislation that's a minimum of nine years away, so not that long to spend our hard-earned on nice-to-haves... Metal-bashing wise, we have a decent line in MIG/MAG, TIG & MMA welders together with a selection of angry grinders, metal bandsaw, pillar drill, bench grinder etc. and a lifetime of using them (not always correctly/appropriately!). Until we have a dedicated workshop, we'll get by but I'd like to explore lathe & miller options - although I've heard that if you've only space for one, then a lathe is the way to go - anyway, enough rambling for now!
Cheers.