metal lathes

Hi all, my name is vincent bomba and my company is Artisan Iron Designs. I am a disabled vet who loves blacksmithing, have been since the 80's and just last year started playing with Damascus. I wanted to make things other than knives so i am making rings, pens, wine stoppers, cork screws...

Hey there. Maybe a metal lathe guru has some advice for me... Today I started turning a pen mill sleeve, and started getting some 'chatter' that left quite an undesirable pattern on the rod. The extended length of the rod is approx 7 inches, .500 diameter, and I'm only taking a 0.005 cut...

Hi all Time for me to move up to the big boy toys . I've been looking at the Micromark 7x14 and am just wondering if it's worth the extra $150 or so for it over the HF or Tools now lathes . I was toying with the idea of getting the HF 9x20 but several things are weighing against it , no reverse...