Ah, the mini lathe. It’s meant to turn small things, things only a couple inches in their diameter. When, I ask you, when is small ever enough? I need to see how big I can go with this thing. See if I can make use of the whole 8” which is listed as it’s max. Is it’s 1/2hp motor going to spin thins hunk of timber, we’ll just have to see.
I grabbed a piece of the Winthrop hickory for this. I’m slowly going through it while practicing the bowl tuning, which probably isn’t wise, but it was all I had within arms reach. I knocked the bark off it as ants had already eaten through it, leaving a layer of dirt (crap) underneath the bark. I started roughing the edges down slowly, eventually getting to a shape I thought was nice. Reversed it and started hollowing. It was a lot of material to remove with such an anemic motor, but it did it’s job.
After taking shape I gave it a baptism in DNA, not that I thought it would do too much good, but it wouldn’t fit in my soaking container. Wrapped in newspaper to dry a while. Pith at both sides of the piece will insure it to warp out of round, but we’ll just have to see how it looks after drying, sanding and finishing.
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