Anyone has some inside info, or speculation on what this is? If you haven't seen yet go to the Oneway website and see for yourself...
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Hstudio said:The concept of a handicapped accessible lathe has been around for a while. John Nichols was kicking the idea around in the 90's. I haven't talked to anyone at Oneway about it, but I remember hearing that they were working on a model for that specific reason.
Ed Moore said:I assume that it is for those who cannot stand. There are folks in wheelchairs who should be overjoyed at this possibility.
Can't see how that would work. Your tool handle has to be able to swing away from the user for hollowing, which would put the lathe bed in the way.Odie said:My guess is the main reasoning behind the new Oneway lathe......is it would give some of the access features of a shortbed lathe, in a longbed configuration.
Czarcastic said:The lathe setup would be good for spindles, boxes, etc. But unless I am missing something, you won't be able to hollow a bowl of any size on it.
Czarcastic said:Can't see how that would work. Your tool handle has to be able to swing away from the user for hollowing, which would put the lathe bed in the way.
john lucas said:Many years ago I set up a mini lathe for a guy in a wheelchair. We tilted the lathe about 45 degrees so he could move his arms over the lathe to more closely emulate the way I do when standing over mine. QUOTE]
Did something similar for a friend with no legs. Tilted the lathe on the stand ~30 degrees. Next evolution would be to take some of the bed extensions and use them to support the toolrest, like the wooden ways I used for outboard turning long ago. Since it was bowl turning for me, didn't need more than six inches of movement for the banjo.
Mark, I have a friend who is a quad, with very limited use of his hands, that turns everything. Does beautiful work.Mark Mandell said:Coring out bowls would be another story, but I rather doubt physically impaired turners are very high on that anyway.
Al Neighbors said:Mark Mandell said:Coring out bowls would be another story, but I rather doubt physically impaired turners are very high on that anyway.Mark, I have a friend who is a quad, with very limited use of his hands, that turns everything. Does beautiful work.
That's terrific, Al. All power to him! Didn't say such folks couldn't or shouldn't run a coring knife, just that it might not be high on their to-do lists.
hockenbery said:I hollow bowls with the the gouge handle across the ways when entering at the rim and pull it toward me. When titled the ways would block the handle just like a lathe guard does. With small bowl you can do the inside will all shear cuts which pretty much keeps the handle in front of the bowl to start.
Shears cuts take a lot longer to excavate a bowl.
Wide hollow forms would be difficult as the ways are now more or less on the right side of the vessels and would block most tool handles from hollowing a wide vessel.
Al
KEW said:If the motor reverses, it seems like turning hollow forms would work very well cutting on the far side of the centers.
Cutting on the far side to excavate a bowl seems very awkward, but if that was the only way a person could do it, I'm betting many would adapt quick enough.