Hi Ken,
Thanks for your comments. I've ordered the Lee Valley woodworking toolrest, due here next week. I wondered how strong it would be, but it looks better than the Taig toolrest. Nick's a good dealer, and I bought my Taig from him.
Rarely use faceplates for woodturning, preferring a scroll chuck. My OneWay seems to fit the Taig ok, although it may be a bit heavy for it. It's fine for my other lathes, but they're all too heavy to carry with me. I'm not exactly a begining wood turner, my father taught me how about 55 years ago. And I've been making pens for about 10 years. But this is my first metal lathe and I'm having a ball learning to use it.
My thanks to all who offered comments, I appreciate it.
Coming soon: a rollerball that uses fountain pen ink cartridges.
And finally, Ken we plan to spend next summer, 2007, in Alaska. If we get down your way I'll buy you a cup of coffee.
txbob
http://members.ispwest.com/txbob
Originally posted by KenV
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Welcome to Taig. Lee Valley sells woodtruning accessories for the taig. I remain underwhelmed by the single post rest, and use the two post rest for most wood turning. Get plenty of 2 inch face plates and mount 3/4 inch pine/hem-fir disks on it (I follow the Bonnie Klein advise and use double stick tape to mount the disks) to turn just about anything. The taig live center works well on my pen mandrels.
The lathe Bonnie Klein sells is a Taig with a different set of ways. Several who post here have that version. PSI also sells a version of the Taig.
Nick Carter has the master site for taig - mostly metal work, but much is adaptable to pens and small wood turnings. (http://www.cartertools.com/)
If you get tired of the face plates, get a set of 3/4 by 16 taps and now tap maple blocks to screw onto the headstock to allow turning all kinds of things from peppermills to confetti candles to bird house ornaments.
Your pencil shows you are well on the way.
((I have two of them with one set for wood and the other for metal.)