Member postings for Jacob Leonidou

Hello.

I thought i'd share the story of a little lathe I picked up several months back. I got it home and covered it up for a bit while i got some other things sorted out. I've since given it a bit of a clean up and begun the process of acquiring what seems like an endless amount of tooling. I've been looking for a lathe for a long time, and this one appeared out of nowhere on facebook for a price i could not refuse. Luckily i was one of the first people to enquire and i later picked it up only to realise i did not have the forklift necessary to get it out of the van. Thankfully i was able to remove it with a bit of thinking and a lot of muscle.

I've spent a lot of time researching this lathe in order to better understand it. I'm only a novice so it would be great to learn more about the lathe and machining in general. I have a workshop at home and I do a lot of wood/metal work, but my main interest is knife-making.

So this is the lathe when i got it home

Pay close attention to the quality of engineering applied

This is how dirty she was

This is how she cleaned up

I'll upload some more pictures shortly. Thanks for looking.

Hi. I have the same lathe and I've been reading a lot in an effort to better understand it. Would you mind telling me what size tooling you use in the tool post? I can only fit 1/4" tooling with the compound slide fitted. Seems small for the lathe size.

Thanks