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I am clearing out some stuff from my shop: WP_20141230_16_21_18_Pro.jpg WP_20141230_16_15_49_Pro.jpg WP_20141230_16_19_30_Pro.jpg WP_20141007_09_09_03_Pro.jpg (no photo yet) Mark VII way tubes with plastic rack in excellent shape. Contact me directly and we can figure out what is fair. you can PM, o...

hrmm, the google docs link didn't work. can you try again?

Picked one of these very items up. I think I need my water much hotter than I had it, and wine bottles seems to be quite sturdy. The score isn't running yet. Will try water much closer to boiling next...hopefully that takes care of things.

Has anyone tried cutting glass bottles (such as wine bottles) on their shopsmith? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYU3YXyAceI and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viV9ivbWNA0 are examples, so obviously it can be done on any lathe. Its really more a matter of if anyone here has experience and what met...

I used the cutoffs to make a jig for fixing headstocks. I had an extra pivoting end, so I mounted that to a piece of plywood.

beatnik wrote:What model is this ?

tiny photo, but looks like a mark 2

rcplaneguy wrote:A 510 with a different looking rip fence (than mine)

Yeah, definitely not the correct rip fence...

What is happening to Forrest Blades. I find Forrest blades offered at all of the usual outlets but I can no longer reach them at forrestblades.com. If they are now incommunicado I will have to look for someplace else to get my blades sharpened. I don't want to do that. Their website seems to be wor...

I ran into this issue a while back. Solved it by adding a nylon washer under the aluminum block as I recall (should go take a photo I suppose). That eliminated the slop.

My wife and I are going to fly to Portland, Oregon for vacation this year. We plan on visiting Redwoods National Park, Fort Clatsop, Mount Rainier, Mount St. Helens, and Mount Hood as well as the Space Needle. For those of you who live in the areas I've listed is there anything else I should put on...