[Woodworkers] Best Lathe

[jaspertops at bluemarble.net]

Have you thought about a foot powered lathe? Roy Underhill had made one 
on the Woodwright Shop.  i'm sure that one would get your RPM's low 
enough.  The only trick is trying to use a lathe while standing on one 
foot.

Vince Granacher

On 2022-07-09 5:20 pm, chuck.steger--- via Woodworkers wrote:
> At the first of the year I jubilantly declared that I had cut a
> burl at Christmas and was going to turn my first burl. I prepared the
> burl to a rough diameter of 14” and it weighed around 25 lbs.
> (it’s now around 17 lbs.). I knew I had to slow my lathe down for
> something of that size and weight. I have a Grizzly G0462 that is
> supposed to go from 600 rpm to 2400 rpm. I bought it used and, quite
> frankly, it never went below 1200 rpm. I wasn’t doing bowls so my
> speed range worked. Now, however, I need it to go slow. Several calls
> to Grizzly and several builds and rebuilds since then and I can’t
> slow it down. Now obviously I haven’t worked on it non-stop since
> January (this thing called life) but I just tried by last hail-Mary
> after talking to Grizzly. We both agreed if this didn’t work, it
> wasn’t going to work. It didn’t and they can’t tell me why.
> 
>    So, I’m on to plan B – a new lathe. I bought it used for $250
> so I figure I can sell this discounted for $100 with a full disclosure
> that it will only drop to 1100 rpm (I did manage a 100 rpm drop 😊).
> Does that sound fair?
> 
>    But my main question is what lathe to buy? I always said my next
> lathe would be my last lathe so I’m willing to spend the bucks. When
> I first got into woodworking (many moons ago), Oneway was the king of
> lathes. But now I see Powermatic is good. Scott Phillips uses a Rikon
> that looks pretty cool. Anyway, what say you? If you wanted the
> ultimate lathe, what would you buy? I’m willing to dish out some
> cash if I think it’s worth it. I see where Powermatic sells one for
> $10,500 but it would have to turn the wood for me 😊.
> 
> Chuck
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