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You call that a lathe?
« on: May 22, 2013, 07:57:30 PM »
Yeah, he does.

I've been kind of fascinated by this primitive pole lathe. There are a few modernized and cleaned up hard wood tung oiled versions out on the internet, that look quite nice. Yet I keep coming back to re-watch this video series of Ben Orford's -- he turns a bowl with handmade hook tools stuck in tree limbs on something that looks like an old broken fence gate.

I love this kind of stuff.

first chapter:


The fifth chapter is harder to find than the first four for some reason, it's here:


I love it when a Plan B comes together!
Steve
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sDubB0-REg