Monday 17 May 2010

New lathe chisel handles

I finished setting up the lathe when the new rubber feet arrived which are self-adhesive pads I purchased these to help absorb sound through the rubber feet instead of hearing noise on the bare floorboards. After my little oops (first attempt)of turning I decided it was through picking up the wrong turning chisel, I decided to put a few away for now till I have practised a lot more and regained my skill seeing it's many years since I did any turning. Most of the scrapper chisel I have are quite big from the two shown in the photo in another post here.

I decided to reshape the two chisels that were home attempts of turning by someone else although the steel tangs were Robert Sorby's, I ground one into a scrapper and the other reshaped into a gouge chisel and turn up two new handles.

Hunted around for some suitable timber to make handles then realized I had stashed away, above my head some old curtain poles they could have been a bit bigger in circumference but never mind the first of the two handles have turned out not too bad at all see photos. any comments welcome.

First photo show from the left short length of the pole before turning The new handle when finished in the middle the pattern which I copied from and on the right the two chisel which are to have the new handles fitted. the second photo showing pattern and a new handle. The last two photos showing the finished handles and with tangs fitted as there are today and being used.

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Axminster lathe M950

Bought this from e Bay, The seller lived in Truro Cornwall, and I live in Weymouth Dorset luckily for me he works near Exeter and I have friends who live in Exeter so we met there.

Just wondering what you guys thought of it for value for money. I bought the complete lathe for £225

This is the Axminster M950, I paid £225 for it and the contents of the following four photos.

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When he turned up he had further extras with him as well, so lucky for me I had extra cash on me, he then offered me all the following chisel that you will see for a £160 making a grand total of £385. We settled for £380.

hamlet, Henry Taylor, crown chisel, Homemade attempts and a set of hamlet chisels

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This is the only damage I could find, I can't imagine why the gearing indicator plate is bent up and bugled like that? think I need to investigate further inside the head housing, apart from that slight damage I got it all bolted loosely back together at the moment just to get the motor running which it does gears all seem to be OK, so guys honest opinion, please

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