Late last year, I bought a PSI lathe along with some other tools and unfortunately (for me!!) it sat in the box until about 6 weeks ago. I purchased it with the thought of making pens, but having spent most of my woodworking life making bigger things (stools, tables, etc.), I neglected the PSI. :frown:
Well, 6 weeks ago, out it came and I started trying some turnings and fell in love..being able to start with a raw piece of tree and end up with a yo-yo, captive ring or spindle in an hour or 2 seemed like (almost) instant gratification!!
Living in Barbados means that I have to import everything, so it took about 3 weeks before I got my order of pen bits, proper lathe tools, etc. Anyway to make a long story short (a bit late for that!!), I got some Corian-like scraps from a manufacturer here, expoxyed them over the weekend and turned my first Trimline this evening!!
Made some mistakes; cut the blanks a bit too long, so had to square off quite a bit; made the blank too fat, so it too a loonng time to get it down to correct size; and during assembly with my son, we misread the identification mark on the twist mechanism and pushed it in too far - managed to disassemble and refit properly.. So here it is..not perfect, but not too bad for a first try I think.
This is going to be a great journey...and thanks to you guys for all of the invaluable information in this forum.
Steve
Well, 6 weeks ago, out it came and I started trying some turnings and fell in love..being able to start with a raw piece of tree and end up with a yo-yo, captive ring or spindle in an hour or 2 seemed like (almost) instant gratification!!
Living in Barbados means that I have to import everything, so it took about 3 weeks before I got my order of pen bits, proper lathe tools, etc. Anyway to make a long story short (a bit late for that!!), I got some Corian-like scraps from a manufacturer here, expoxyed them over the weekend and turned my first Trimline this evening!!
Made some mistakes; cut the blanks a bit too long, so had to square off quite a bit; made the blank too fat, so it too a loonng time to get it down to correct size; and during assembly with my son, we misread the identification mark on the twist mechanism and pushed it in too far - managed to disassemble and refit properly.. So here it is..not perfect, but not too bad for a first try I think.
This is going to be a great journey...and thanks to you guys for all of the invaluable information in this forum.
Steve
