angboy
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Hopefully this will be my last request. I am wanting opinions on two last things. I imagine there probably isn't a strong difference among these items from different companies but just want to be sure.
First, I am planning to buy a tool rest, above and beyond the one that came with my lathe. I have looked at the 6 inch tool rest and corresponding posts from woodcraft, CSUSA and Packard. The prices at Packard and CSUSA are within a dollar of each other and the woodcraft one is about $10 more for the actual rest and about $3 cheaper for the post. But that's a minor difference that doesn't matter. But is there a difference in quality that people know of?
My other dilemma is about an adjustable mandrel (as CSUSA calls it) or a professional mandrel (as woodcraft calls it) or "std" manual as Packard calls it. Again, all are within about $5 in price, and all three are what I'm looking for in terms of being able to adjust the mandrel length using the collet system, but are people aware of a difference in quality or other features among these three? I know I've read people's opinion about not even using the mandrel and preferring the chuck system, but if you're going to stick with the mandrel system (since it would be a fairly substantial cost difference to switch to the chuck system), are there diffferences b/w these three mandrels?
Thanks so much to everyone for being patient with a beginner and being so willing to answer questions! I know that sometimes people mention that prior discussions have been posted on the same subjects that someone might ask about again. I hope I'm not duplicating too much. I seem to be impaired when it comes to using the search function for some reason. I tried to do a search about the whole chuck system and figured I'd be overwhelmed with too many results, but only got a few, and so I'm sure I was missing posts, but couldn't manage to find them w/a search- I found enough to get the difference, but it just seemed like only in last few weeks of just going to the furm and scanning each day's topics, I'd seen more about the issue than I found with a search!
First, I am planning to buy a tool rest, above and beyond the one that came with my lathe. I have looked at the 6 inch tool rest and corresponding posts from woodcraft, CSUSA and Packard. The prices at Packard and CSUSA are within a dollar of each other and the woodcraft one is about $10 more for the actual rest and about $3 cheaper for the post. But that's a minor difference that doesn't matter. But is there a difference in quality that people know of?
My other dilemma is about an adjustable mandrel (as CSUSA calls it) or a professional mandrel (as woodcraft calls it) or "std" manual as Packard calls it. Again, all are within about $5 in price, and all three are what I'm looking for in terms of being able to adjust the mandrel length using the collet system, but are people aware of a difference in quality or other features among these three? I know I've read people's opinion about not even using the mandrel and preferring the chuck system, but if you're going to stick with the mandrel system (since it would be a fairly substantial cost difference to switch to the chuck system), are there diffferences b/w these three mandrels?
Thanks so much to everyone for being patient with a beginner and being so willing to answer questions! I know that sometimes people mention that prior discussions have been posted on the same subjects that someone might ask about again. I hope I'm not duplicating too much. I seem to be impaired when it comes to using the search function for some reason. I tried to do a search about the whole chuck system and figured I'd be overwhelmed with too many results, but only got a few, and so I'm sure I was missing posts, but couldn't manage to find them w/a search- I found enough to get the difference, but it just seemed like only in last few weeks of just going to the furm and scanning each day's topics, I'd seen more about the issue than I found with a search!
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