Success - exercising without realizing it! Some folks have asked me if it’s hard to pedal this antique lathe while trying to make something on...
It’s definitely harder. The sitting position is awkward so you have to swing the longer lathe tools out to your left side. It’s totally opposite...
A friend needed a “visual aid” for his high school senior presentation on the Battle of Antietam and asked me if we could make a civil war cannon...
Thanks! Since this is a metal lathe the seating position is definitely odd when using it for wood. The seat doesn’t swivel. The only way to get...
Yes, it’s backwards. That’s how they were designed, to get the metal, or wood in this case, turning towards you.
And I couldn’t go to bed tonight without trying it out on an actual piece of wood: [MEDIA]
It works!! https://m.youtube.com/shorts/NlYnwhRozns?feature=share
Mounting a modern wood lathe banjo and tool rest on the Barnes 4 1/2 velocipede metal lathe so it can be quickly removed and restored to original:...
LOL! I picked up a Harbor Freight linked belt just to get it working. A guy on one of the foot powered machine forums kindly volunteered to send...
Not much, but it’s a start: [MEDIA] The Barnes 4 1/2 velocipede metal lathe was manufactured from 1900 to 1925. The chain on this one seemed too...
I found a Barnes 4 1/2 velocipede lathe from around 1900 so he acquiesced. I brought it home Tuesday. It is operated by foot pedal and you sit on...
My experience exactly. Except I don’t usually have a torch at hand, just a lighter.
I could do that. My sister has a laser cutter/ engraver.
My landlord put the kibosh to this idea. He thinks it will take up too much space in his workshop space I share with him and ultimately won’t get...
