Wood lathe list

[Neal Addy]

The Wood Lathe Specifications List has gone through it's first major update since January.

A few notable additions:
- 3 new Rikon lathes in the queue for Fall '09
- 3 new bowl lathes added from Ebo, Inc.
- New "Sit-down" lathe is available from Vicmarc
- New Grizzly H2669 beauty (don't miss this one)

Bon appetit!

Neal

 

[fiferb]

WOW!!! This is a tremendous resource for lathe comparisons. Thanks for putting this together and sharing.

 

[Neal Addy]

New PSI lathe added. Available in late Feb.

PSI Turncrafter Commander VS

12"x18"
2 speed ranges (150-4000)
1"x8TPI
MT#2
106 lbs
$400 MSRP

 

[kevinbrown22]

Neal,
Do you know if the new Grizzly allows outboard turning?

 

[Neal Addy]

The G0698? I haven't seen the lathe itself and the manual is a tad confusing on whether the headstock rotates. It says nothing about the headstock sliding.

The manual claims the headstock can be positioned at "0 or 180 degrees", leading me to think it allows the headstock to simply be reversed (not pivoted).

Again, this is speculation on my part.

 

[Noah]

Outstanding Resource...and a lot of work...
Much appreciated...
Ed

 

[jeff]

Very nice list.

One error I see: the headstock on the 3520B slides, but does not rotate.

 

[Neal Addy]

Hmmm, not sure how that got in there. My spreadsheet says 'N' but the web page was incorrect. That'll teach me to do manual updates to the HTML (rather than re-export).

Thanks for the head's up!

 

[markgum]

THANKS. makes it easy to narrow the list down.