lathes
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turbohatch3
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- Joined: Wed Jan 03, 2007 11:56 pm
lathes
what lathes are you guys running?........ i know noles has a old clemmems/rensetti. im running the pacbay rodsmith with alum. chuck. and lets see some pics of your shop setups im trying to get a idea on how to set up my shop since i just bought this house and have a gift card to home depot to set up my rod building room
Me, I only have very basic equipment.
I sit on the floor while building rods. My table is my living room table.
Simple fact is... I do not have a lathe at all. I just have a very basic non-motorized rod wrapper that I bought for about $30.
I just recently bought a real rod dryer from mudhole when they were on sell. As for a lathe...when I need to shape cork I use a dremel. I have two dremels. An A/C powered one and a D/C powered one. I prefer the D/C cause it's light and portable. I simply go outside with my cork, hold the dremel stationary in one hand and rotate the cork with the other hand. Some day I'd like to get a powered rod wrapper which can double as a lathe but it will be a while before I do that. My eye is one the American taclkel wrapper with the duel motors. It's the same as the pacific bay one. I've only recently started messing with shaping cork. Turns out...it's very easy to dramatically reshape preshaped cork with a dremel and really turnout some fine work!
I sit on the floor while building rods. My table is my living room table.
Simple fact is... I do not have a lathe at all. I just have a very basic non-motorized rod wrapper that I bought for about $30.
I just recently bought a real rod dryer from mudhole when they were on sell. As for a lathe...when I need to shape cork I use a dremel. I have two dremels. An A/C powered one and a D/C powered one. I prefer the D/C cause it's light and portable. I simply go outside with my cork, hold the dremel stationary in one hand and rotate the cork with the other hand. Some day I'd like to get a powered rod wrapper which can double as a lathe but it will be a while before I do that. My eye is one the American taclkel wrapper with the duel motors. It's the same as the pacific bay one. I've only recently started messing with shaping cork. Turns out...it's very easy to dramatically reshape preshaped cork with a dremel and really turnout some fine work!
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Dirty Dave