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Old German lathes

thanks for sharing 😀
 
A bunch of nice lathes. Shop is entirely too clean. 🙂 I'll bet it doesn't stay that way long. Thanks for posting.
 
Thanks for your comments and hints. Yes, you are right, it is my first video with a very cheap digital camera. Directly after cleaning, sorry.
 
Joe,

Thank you for posting your shop and equipment. Its always of interest to see what others have and use for their livelihood or hobby.

I would be interested in the manufacture date of that first lathe in your shop. It looks perhaps to be the forerunner of the Powermatic that is so popular here.
 
Wow! You have quite the collection of lathes there. Some look quite large. The one on the far right of the video-- "Z" something looks quite large--I couldn't tell from the video. The graduate lathe of course another winner. Very nice collection (and organization) of tools! Did you make the coring knives as well?
 
Hi Jake,
the date of my first Geiger lathe is around 1950. I changed the functionality of the head. I prefer a moveable headstock. So I can stand at the end of the lathe everytime and move the head according to the length of my piece of wood. The second advantage against a rotatable head is I can use a steady.
Hi Nate,
if you mean my selfmade boring tool ? That's a boring tool for deep holes in endgrain wood. The functionality is superb and it is at the same time working like the Martell hoke tool. So you can bore and enlarge the hole at the same time. The tool is selfmade and very cheap. It's only a 16mm HSS wood drill with a special grinding. Very effective.
 
JoWinter said:
Hi Jake,
the date of my first Geiger lathe is around 1950. I changed the functionality of the head. I prefer a moveable headstock. So I can stand at the end of the lathe everytime and move the head according to the length of my piece of wood. The second advantage against a rotatable head is I can use a steady.
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Jo, anyone who owns or turns on a PM3520 will immediately see the strong resemblance, and know where the basic design came from. Of course the Geiger my also be based on an even earlier design, but I have my doubts. Thank you.
 
Thank you for sharing Jo
Nice looking shop and TOOLS
Mine looked that clean, prior to moving the machines in.
Very serious tools, must have taken a week to clean the shop for the video.

Jerry
 
JoWinter said:
Hi Jake,
the date of my first Geiger lathe is around 1950. I changed the functionality of the head. I prefer a moveable headstock. So I can stand at the end of the lathe everytime and move the head according to the length of my piece of wood. The second advantage against a rotatable head is I can use a steady.
Hi Nate,
if you mean my selfmade boring tool ? That's a boring tool for deep holes in endgrain wood. The functionality is superb and it is at the same time working like the Martell hoke tool. So you can bore and enlarge the hole at the same time. The tool is selfmade and very cheap. It's only a 16mm HSS wood drill with a special grinding. Very effective.
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I was actually talking about the curved cutters--they look like the McNaughton center saver, but the boring tool is pretty amazing too! I'm definitely watching it a few more times to take it all in. Thanks for posting!
 
Very impressive and SUPER CLEAN shop, in typical German fashion. But also shows a great deal of pride in workmanship and a fine collection of tools. I am envious. Now, all I need is a help to clean my shop!
 
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