I am starting to get into chair building so as you might guess, a lathe helps. I like to make the legs and the spindes the same kind of wood and it can be challenging trying to find 8 dry, good sized, spindles, of the same wood that aret rotten, or "bad". I recently made a chair out of sourwood, I got the materials readily, but the more I use , the less I have. I think it would be much easier to get a bigger branch or trunk, split it, and then turn it. Carving 8 spindle smooth makes my hands hurt after a while. So, anyways, does any one hear have some intructions on how to make a non elctric lathe that doesn't reqire a "whole" lot of work. By that I mean something simple that a kid can make with out proper tools and skills. I know erunkisurvival was working on one, how is that coming along?
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