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Big Wooden Balls
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I feel like his drying process is imperfect. I see lots of checks and cracks.
Very cool! I could make room in my house for one of those. : )
John Jordan
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I thought you were gonna start bragging again....................🙂
John
John
Now thats a mans lathe,thanks for that
Add some flannel, a raspy voice, and lots of duct tape, and you have Red Green on steroids. Really cool mega lathe. I'd have liked to have seen a close-up of the cutter and the mechanical system that he uses to position and drive it. Might have smaller scale applications to normal-scale woodturning....(...all he would need is an indexing wheel for some repeatable positioning, and he could also add 'ornamental turning' to his resume!).
Awesome!
Rob
Awesome!
Rob
Interesting video! My questions: Who buys something like that? Where would you put it? What do they cost?
I get excited over doing a reel seat insert- about 4-1/8 X 1.
I get excited over doing a reel seat insert- about 4-1/8 X 1.
john lucas
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Rob I rigged up something similar once with a dremel, steel cutter and a homemade ball turning rig similar to what Mark StLeger used to demo. I'm guessing that's not radically different from his truck.