Oct 7, 2006
Took a router class at Woodcraft today. IMHO it wasn't worth the money as it primarily consisted of the instructor showing us how to use his favorite router jigs and a brief discussion of some pages xeroxed from ShopNotes in clear violation of their copyrights.
Bought (well, ordered) the Oneway Revolving live center from http://www.hartvilletool.com/product/10785 ... which is where you are redirected to if you type in the URL "http://www.packardwoodworks.com". I think that having a bull-nose tailstock center will help me make some money with my bowls which are, to be brutally honest, "vin ordinairre' -- pretty good by junior high standards, but a long way from paying my way into MOMA.
I'm going to try to ratchet my 'artsy-fartsy' factor up a notch or two by combining a couple of techniques I recently read about in the "American Woodturner" magazine and this tailstock center looks to be a mandatory part of that process.
I swapped the electric motors around and have a working lathe again. Spending the money for a Oneway, Stubby or other top-end lathe is beginning to make sense. I've already put over $500 into two crummy lathes just to keep one lathe at a time running.
I'm not making any headway on my debts because dropping money into maintaining a minimal equipment configuration and growing my inventory to segue into in-stock / online ordering is not the same as making sales and fixing equipment is not the same as making deliveries.
Okay ... enough whining. G'night.
Bought (well, ordered) the Oneway Revolving live center from http://www.hartvilletool.com/product/10785 ... which is where you are redirected to if you type in the URL "http://www.packardwoodworks.com". I think that having a bull-nose tailstock center will help me make some money with my bowls which are, to be brutally honest, "vin ordinairre' -- pretty good by junior high standards, but a long way from paying my way into MOMA.
I'm going to try to ratchet my 'artsy-fartsy' factor up a notch or two by combining a couple of techniques I recently read about in the "American Woodturner" magazine and this tailstock center looks to be a mandatory part of that process.
I swapped the electric motors around and have a working lathe again. Spending the money for a Oneway, Stubby or other top-end lathe is beginning to make sense. I've already put over $500 into two crummy lathes just to keep one lathe at a time running.
I'm not making any headway on my debts because dropping money into maintaining a minimal equipment configuration and growing my inventory to segue into in-stock / online ordering is not the same as making sales and fixing equipment is not the same as making deliveries.
Okay ... enough whining. G'night.
posted by Bill from Detroit at
10:35 PM
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