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I just bought a taper attachment for a 1953 16" south bend for $500.00 and it came with a ...lathe attached to it. This should be able to turn a few pens.
 

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Skie_M

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Love the new toy ... turning green with envy ...


Any chance of a Damascus style blank made of copper/brass in the Mokkume (wood grain) appearance? :)
 

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Wow, that is what I call a "brute" of a machine, just moving that thing around is a job and a half, better you than me...!

When I saw the pics and before I read the text, I thought to myself that the machine looks older than me, after reading the text, I saw that I was right, same decade just a few short years apart...!:)

As for turning pens on it, its a bit of an overkill isn't it...?

I'm sure you had a very good reason to buy it and that is good enough for me.

Cheers
George
 

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You are so going to love dragging the tailstock back and forth drilling your Damascus. I have used almost the same machine drilling metal blanks. After a few hours of that, my wood lathe seems like a child's toy.
 
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Wow, that is what I call a "brute" of a machine, just moving that thing around is a job and a half, better you than me...!

When I saw the pics and before I read the text, I thought to myself that the machine looks older than me, after reading the text, I saw that I was right, same decade just a few short years apart...!:)

As for turning pens on it, its a bit of an overkill isn't it...?

I'm sure you had a very good reason to buy it and that is good enough for me.

Cheers
George

Literaly I bought it for the tapper attachment. My 9" SB and 13" SB both dont have one and to buy one was $800-$1k. this machine works well and had the tapper and was only $500.00. However you are right she weighs in at 3600lbs thank God for my 2tonn bridge crane.
 
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This is some industrial strength stuff. Probably will last another lifetime!!! Nice acquisition :)

Thx. the whole reason I got it was for the tapper attachment, my other 2 lathes dont have one but the plus side is I can almost take 0.200" per cut. that's almost 3/8" off the dia. in one pass. with the collet set up and the depth of cut I can take my damascus blanks to finished size with 2 rough cut passes and one spring cut (finish cut). time to crank out some pens.

keep the chips flying
 
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