Teeny Tiny Lathe

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DestinTurnings

DestinTurnings

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My good friend has an amazing shop. He doesn't do any pen turning but his lathe would make that difficult anyway!

It's hard to see in the picture but the middle of the head/tail stock sits at 20 inches over the bed. It's powered by a 15 horsepower motor running hydraulics to the headstock. The powered cutter head(in the plywood dust box) has another five horse motor just for it.

I have watched him turn a 2000lb 24" pine block 18 feet long into a column for a southern plantation home. I have also seen him load a 500lb cherry root and turn it down into the most amazing hollow form.

Just thought some might get a kick out of it.

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Now thats a mans Lathe! The skew for that would be a small Harpoon.:biggrin:
When your 5ft long, 2ft diameter, segmented lower blank came apart would you Yell
"THar she blows!" and run like hell for cover!:eek::eek::eek::eek:
 
If you got a catch turning something on that, you'd probably hit the roof.

But seriously, I'd like to see the cherry root hollow form.
 
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