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He sold it to someone else. Wah.

I have a woodturning lathe, and I spend a lot of on machinist youtube channels, knowing it's unlikely I'll ever be able to justify spending the money on an engineer's lathe, plus all the tooling. It doesn't stop me lusting, though. Is there any point getting a Tyzack treddle lathe for a...

> Look around and many goods get replaced on a whim because they are deemed out of fashion, we are in a throw away society, people no longer seem to want to keep things long term because a lot just enjoy shopping and buying. It's not entirely as simple as that, though. My wife took a sewing...

Oh man I feel shamed :) I will do that before I do anything else.

Oh! The thing that screws on before the drive centre, sorry, yeah, got that. Found it after struggling to remove the centre the first few times with all kinds of improvisation.

What's a thread protector and how's it used? The belt is ribbed as you say.

Anyone able to tell from the photos if it's something I can adjust, twiddle or tweak?

I shimmed the bench slightly and that helped. In a 10 second test the noise seems to have gone when turning on the edge, but still there on end grain hollowing (pull cut).

https://i.imgur.com/jvkXM0J.jpg https://i.imgur.com/zGriqAQ.jpg https://i.imgur.com/0r3U49m.jpg https://i.imgur.com/HQCWpjk.jpg

I will take some more photos tomorrow.

The CL0 seems something of an oddball in that it seems to get missed from many lists. Perhaps they'll be able to help me over email. Unless adjustment instructions are easy to give here? :)

That's better news than I was fearing, anyway, and fits with it going away with my loose improvised tailstock on the goblet. I remember a Mike Peace video about a wooden cone centre for the tailstock. Yes, the bed is two long steel bars. I've seen Adam Booth (abom79) machining with steady...

Here's the noise, with a view of the roof of my workshop. This was running at 900RPM. (The noise is less "ringing" in this one, but I was using a much chunkier piece of wood.) (The too-heavy bogging down at the end was me getting frustrated at the noise not being picked up very well by the...

Hrm. I don't know where to start even answering this. I don't see _anything_ adjustable around the headstock/motor, etc, although I might just be missing it.

But youtube is full of videos of people hollowing end-grain goblets without any such thing. Do they just have better lathes?

My Record Power Model No 0[1] has been giving me a lot of joy, but I have an issue. Sometimes when turning the whole thing seems to make a loud (and unpleasant) ringing noise. It never does it when I'm turning bowls, or small end grain boxes (more like needle cases), but when I've tried...

I agree with this. I bought this recently, largely after seeing M. Saban Smith using one on youtube. It's really nice to be able to take ~20 seconds to freshen up the bowl gouge. I'm sure I'll end up with a ProEdge or something one day, but I already had a bench grinder, and all the sharpening...

You mean just proceed as normal as if it weren't there and let it be whatever it turns out as in the end? Or would I need to do something differently around it, or something?

It's really just a practice piece, so don't say "chuck it in the firewood pile" :) Turning a piece of green willow into a bowl for practice. Horribly wet and gummy to turn, but free wood is free wood, and it's only for practising. I've found this... blemish. I'd rather not turn a whole inch...

Cleaned it up with petrol. It didn't ever come entirely clean despite repeated rubbings, but in the end I had to paint it before it got dark, so we'll see how well it sticks.