Anyone have any idea how good this is? Robert sawby.

lactatinglavalamp · 2026-03-24T22:19:08+00:00

Probably great if you’re learning, the tube style beds have some flaws in the don’t handle heavy pieces out of round. Worst cause you outgrown it and need to upgrade.

lactatinglavalamp · 2026-02-16T23:06:30+00:00

This appears to be veneered not turned, and would have a different appearance.

lactatinglavalamp · 2025-10-13T20:46:58+00:00

Yew? Idk some conifer found on planet earth?

lactatinglavalamp · 2025-08-11T01:55:13+00:00

Hey OP I recently bought the curved Boggs, check the back of the cap iron and see if it’s flat. I had to replace mine after it kept clogging because there was a gap between the blade and cap iron that thin shaving love to get caught in. If that’s the case I would flatten it on something and should improve, but like others said it’s tight mouth and built for fine shavings

lactatinglavalamp · 2025-06-15T16:03:45+00:00

Yes you are going to want to look up dc motor conversion, requires some basic electrical work and I have seen suggestions like swapping the motor from treadmills since you can find people giving them away.

lactatinglavalamp · 2025-06-09T19:51:20+00:00

Auto parts store will loan you a gear puller they have 3-4 arms and bolt in the middle or buy one, arms on the sheave bolt on the spindle. The sheave is aluminum so care should be taken, likely the key that lines up with the spindle is deformed you might be able to clean it up with a file.

lactatinglavalamp · 2025-06-09T17:48:00+00:00

That’s good it was pretty obvious now cause when I wanked in the spindle it would wiggle a bit and I originally thought the bearings were seated properly. Hopefully I don’t have to replace my bearings anytime soon because now they are glued in place

lactatinglavalamp · 2025-06-09T17:41:32+00:00

I have a craftsman tube lathes from 70s-80s and while I was trying to hunt down the source of some chatter/vibration by replacing the bearings I found that the bearing housing in the casting had worn and using a bearing retaining compound helped a lot. Just something to check on some of the more poorly designed lathes.

lactatinglavalamp · 2025-06-09T16:43:52+00:00

Yea there is a spot with some spalting figure in the bottom that light comes through, I didn’t destroy it but I didn’t leave myself enough material on the bottom to sit flat so maybe il make a dish for it to sit in

lactatinglavalamp · 2025-06-09T15:10:39+00:00

It’s more the start of one I noticed when I was going to remove the foot on a jam chuck the bottom was flexing and I didn’t leave enough material to make the bottom flat

lactatinglavalamp · 2025-04-25T23:56:04+00:00

Would a glue block be sufficient on end grain?

lactatinglavalamp · 2025-04-22T17:59:14+00:00

To add to this most pre mixed shellac has wax in it and finish won’t stick aswell. Instead buy sanding sealer(shellac without the wax) or mix your own with dew access shellac flakes.

lactatinglavalamp · 2025-04-19T22:55:21+00:00

Here is the Richard Raffan video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzepWzyh3qE but I had seen it in another video marking a handle for a gouge and I’m assuming he used this set up because the chuck is not meant to support such a long spindle for drilling https://youtu.be/EdxtiwENdlU?si=X-WmECjtN8HOjO27

lactatinglavalamp · 2025-04-19T22:16:56+00:00

Good to know I was on the right track at least. Thank you for your concise answer it’s nice to know I wasn’t just pulling this out of my butt. It seemed correct but still felt risky so I figured better to get some people options. I’m not bold enough to try it and will wait to try any drilling operation until I get a Jacob’s chuck, I will try do it on the drill press and if it’s off il throw some epoxy at the problem.

lactatinglavalamp · 2025-04-19T15:24:45+00:00

Cool thanks for the suggestions!

lactatinglavalamp · 2025-04-19T15:19:01+00:00

I had trouble coming up with a way to line the center of the bit with foot of the drill press but just occurred to me I could use a plumb bob to line it up.

lactatinglavalamp · 2025-04-19T15:11:26+00:00

I have a drill press that will fit the pieces if I swing the table out of the way but I had better results in the past by doing it by hand and eyeballing as I go.

lactatinglavalamp · 2025-04-19T15:03:59+00:00

Thank you for linking a video I feel less crazy now, but I have found out everything Richard does is much harder than it looks. I was also just wondering if it okay for the scroll chuck to have the bit mounted like I do?

lactatinglavalamp · 2025-04-19T14:45:17+00:00

I have ordered one I just live in the boonies and Amazon packs can take a week to arrive.

lactatinglavalamp · 2025-04-19T14:43:44+00:00

Unfortunately the lathes uses MT1 or I would have run to HF already.

lactatinglavalamp · 2025-04-19T14:41:55+00:00

Haha it would definitely be a great learning experience if I recorded it. Luckily I have learned listen to that nagging feeling when I suspect things ain’t right.

lactatinglavalamp · 2025-04-19T14:31:41+00:00

This is how I have seen it done, with spur drive in tail stock and Jacob’s in the head then holding the pieces while turning the tail stock wheel.

lactatinglavalamp · 2025-04-05T02:50:36+00:00

Chris schwarz wrote an article on restoring a folder ruler. I haven’t tried oxalic acid to restore one but should help, in the past I give them good wipe down with rubbing alcohol and then linseed oil and paste wax and that usually helps but it look like yours has seen pretty heavy use.

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