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New legs for new working hight and stability. One of my legs had rotten away due to rust and was slowly curling up at the base causing stability problems. Secondly the hight of the lathe was to low for me causing back problems especially when hollowimg out. So came up with this solution. Three...

So now I can go back to turning

Only little about 9cm by 5cm turned out quiet nice my second box ever

So my first adventures into wood turning was to practice using the different tools and how they cut. I opted to practice making mushrooms as it seemed a good as anyplace to start. Now a few months later I'm branching off into other subjects. The diversity of shapes and forms for me was quiet...

After a few weeks practising on old cypree wood and rebuilding the drive on my second hand lathe my other halfs father gave us an old pile of tianna and iroko wood he had laying up in his garage for the last 30 odd years. This piece came from the smallest off cut he gave as an afterthought as I...

Joining this forum in the hope of getting some inside tips for a replacement motor pulley after mine went bang in a most spectacular fashion. After reading several theads on how obsolete my delta 46-255 had become and finding replacements seamed impossible I turned my focus to france where I am...

A sad beginning it's been 5 weeks now since I was given a lathe after a friend passed away. Due to circumstances of the previous owner it had fallen into a fair bit of neglect but got stuck right in with leaning the lathe renovating both the lathe and tools watching YouTube videos and getting...