agfox
Member
Greets folks,
I have some questions on a shopsmith I hope you can assist with. I've had a hard time with this, so this may not make sense in parts as it's highly personal. My grandfather was the only other woodworker in the family, and he died this past March. He was a dedicated shopsmith man, and I'm pretty sure he owns everything they made, at least it seems that way going through it. You learn a lot about a man when he dies and you go through his stuff. I learned where I get all my bad ww'n habits. Brand new accessories, router bits, drill bits, and lord knows what else... all in the package with receipts. I knew I had to get it from someone! I'll use it, someday... just keep telling myself!
Anyways, I was considering bring the shopsmith home for a dedicated pen lathe and I have read some of you have this machine. I have a jet mini now and it's all I've ever turned on. I understand it has a unique arbor situation, and the headstock moves instead of the tailstock, but other than that I'm pretty clueless to it. I'll be eventually hauling all the pieces home, but on the first trip I'd like to get what's necessary to turn pens. Can you give me an idea on what to make sure I get to take home? Are there some pictures I can look at? How do you hold the mandrel? Would a beall chuck (with an adaptor for the spindle) work on this? I keep reading something about changing speeds in lathe mode is a problem?
I signed up on the SS group on yahoo, so hopefully I can search there too. I appreciate any and all help you can give.
Thanks,
Nathan
I have some questions on a shopsmith I hope you can assist with. I've had a hard time with this, so this may not make sense in parts as it's highly personal. My grandfather was the only other woodworker in the family, and he died this past March. He was a dedicated shopsmith man, and I'm pretty sure he owns everything they made, at least it seems that way going through it. You learn a lot about a man when he dies and you go through his stuff. I learned where I get all my bad ww'n habits. Brand new accessories, router bits, drill bits, and lord knows what else... all in the package with receipts. I knew I had to get it from someone! I'll use it, someday... just keep telling myself!
Anyways, I was considering bring the shopsmith home for a dedicated pen lathe and I have read some of you have this machine. I have a jet mini now and it's all I've ever turned on. I understand it has a unique arbor situation, and the headstock moves instead of the tailstock, but other than that I'm pretty clueless to it. I'll be eventually hauling all the pieces home, but on the first trip I'd like to get what's necessary to turn pens. Can you give me an idea on what to make sure I get to take home? Are there some pictures I can look at? How do you hold the mandrel? Would a beall chuck (with an adaptor for the spindle) work on this? I keep reading something about changing speeds in lathe mode is a problem?
I signed up on the SS group on yahoo, so hopefully I can search there too. I appreciate any and all help you can give.
Thanks,
Nathan