Originally posted by DCBluesman
<br />Great work, Scott. I'm partial to the tigerwood ebony burl (straight) streamline, but more than a little curious about the barley twist. How do you like the Legacy 200? Do you find that it increases or decreases your turning time? How do you turn the pen down to size on the lathe and still keep the full-roundness of each separate "strand" (for lack of a better word)?
I have not used the Legacy very much yet. I do like it though. Because I am new at it I can't judge if it's faster or not. My gut feeling is no. I like to turn pens that are end grain exposed on the body of the pen. It is hard to do on a regular lathe but I like doing the profile on the Legacy because no blowouts! I finish them up on the regular lathe. Of course I could not do a handmade twist like Tom does! They are kind of fun to do and add some variety to pen displays.
The downside to the Legacy is that it is limited on the indexing (or ratio) of the gears and only does the twist at one angle/direction not both.
I wanted to be able to do pens and twist elements to other projects. If you wanting flexibility the Legacy 200's bigger brothers do a better job of that.
I will be seeing Terry the owner of Legacy at the Seattle WW Show in 2 weeks and I have a lot of questions.
Thanks for the comments!