My day started out with a little flat joy as my parents got to see their custom stereo cabinet in person, but then turned into a full blown dark side fest.
MRAudio815 (Mathew) and Erassmusen (Earl) came by around lunch to relieve me of my HF lathe. Earl brought another one of his spectacular segmented turning for me to drool on, and Matt brought some plywood to pass on to other members. After a lot of chitchat we disassembled my HF lathe and loaded it into Matt's truck -
Yeah, we made Matt do all the work.
Here's the scoundrels absconding with my old lathe -
Well the absence of the HF lathe left quite a void in my shop, not to mention a mess....I really should clean under the lathe more often. It's a bad bowl graveyard -
Shortly after Matt and Earl left, JimmyC dropped by to pick-up some some of Matt's Plywood, and some serious hunks of MDF.
Well after all that excitement I decided to start unpacking my new ShopFox lathe to see what it looked like. I set up the legs and moved things around so this beast would fit where the old HF lathe used to be.
All a sudden Trent Mason dropped by. Perfect I needed a second strong back to help me set the bed on the legs. My 70 year old Dad offered to help, but having a strapping young buck available was a much smarter idea.
Trent and I grunted the bed onto the legs, and bolted her down. The center lined up perfectly and the lathe is dead-on and perfect -
And her she is, along with her happy owner -
Yeah, I know, there's no dust on it YET. That will come tomorrow as I have house guests, and can't spend the whole day having fun in the shop with my NCWW'er buddies and new lathe.
Stay tuned for my review on the ShopFox lathe.
Dave
MRAudio815 (Mathew) and Erassmusen (Earl) came by around lunch to relieve me of my HF lathe. Earl brought another one of his spectacular segmented turning for me to drool on, and Matt brought some plywood to pass on to other members. After a lot of chitchat we disassembled my HF lathe and loaded it into Matt's truck -
Yeah, we made Matt do all the work.
Here's the scoundrels absconding with my old lathe -
Well the absence of the HF lathe left quite a void in my shop, not to mention a mess....I really should clean under the lathe more often. It's a bad bowl graveyard -
Shortly after Matt and Earl left, JimmyC dropped by to pick-up some some of Matt's Plywood, and some serious hunks of MDF.
Well after all that excitement I decided to start unpacking my new ShopFox lathe to see what it looked like. I set up the legs and moved things around so this beast would fit where the old HF lathe used to be.
All a sudden Trent Mason dropped by. Perfect I needed a second strong back to help me set the bed on the legs. My 70 year old Dad offered to help, but having a strapping young buck available was a much smarter idea.
Trent and I grunted the bed onto the legs, and bolted her down. The center lined up perfectly and the lathe is dead-on and perfect -
And her she is, along with her happy owner -
Yeah, I know, there's no dust on it YET. That will come tomorrow as I have house guests, and can't spend the whole day having fun in the shop with my NCWW'er buddies and new lathe.
Stay tuned for my review on the ShopFox lathe.
Dave