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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...

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...

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...

I have a new ~4m length of metal box section that will be doing its job outside, so I want to paint it to stop it rusting away in a season. It's come with a fine black powder that comes off all over my hands, but which when put into google "black powder coating" brings up results for the powder...

I've been watching various turning videos on youtube, particularly wortheffort, and hells bells I want a lathe, but wow they're expensive. Add in some decent gouges and a chuck and it really starts getting painful. Buying the biggest and best you might ever use is not practical given what they...