I trained in the early 60s to teach woodwork and metalwork. I taught in Secondary schools until mid 80s then moved to training teachers. I had a hobby/business designing and making bespoke jewellery with additional training from a time served diamond mounter. Retired in the late 90s with some part-time work for a further 9 years. Arthritic fingers put and end to the jewellery making and I turned to fine cabinet making in between helping to run ballroom dancing groups and Town Twinning.
Fortunately I had bought a reasonable supply of beech in the Autumn before Covid so I used the lockdowns to produce a sideboard, two chests of drawers to sit beside our chairs and a coffee table to use up the offcuts. I did a bit of wood turning then got annoyed at the price of toolrests so I bought a small metal lathe to make my own. This revitalised a much earlier passion so I got a 1953 Myford ML7 followed a few months later by a small early Waco mill. I came across this website yesterday following a grinding noise from the mill and a refusal for it to start. The article by Sploo showed a nearly identical mill.
I’ve ordered a new motor from China so it’ll be lathe work only until it arrives.
Some pics of some Covid period work, and the video requested.
Fortunately I had bought a reasonable supply of beech in the Autumn before Covid so I used the lockdowns to produce a sideboard, two chests of drawers to sit beside our chairs and a coffee table to use up the offcuts. I did a bit of wood turning then got annoyed at the price of toolrests so I bought a small metal lathe to make my own. This revitalised a much earlier passion so I got a 1953 Myford ML7 followed a few months later by a small early Waco mill. I came across this website yesterday following a grinding noise from the mill and a refusal for it to start. The article by Sploo showed a nearly identical mill.
I’ve ordered a new motor from China so it’ll be lathe work only until it arrives.
Some pics of some Covid period work, and the video requested.
