WOOOOOOOO that makes me all happy inside to see someone throwing chips. I told you about the vacuum cleaner mounted under the lathe with the tube hooked to the toolpost sucking all the chips down as fast as they're created idea, right? Another thing: as you've no doubt noticed, that lathe lacks rigidity and the first cut on a 4-sided object can be kind of unhappy, as it begins to transform into a cylinder. Since you have a bandsaw and all you might consider octagoning the blank. It makes the first cuts go a lot easier and more quickly.
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I told you about the vacuum cleaner mounted under the lathe with the tube hooked to the toolpost sucking all the chips down as fast as they're created idea, right?
Another thing: as you've no doubt noticed, that lathe lacks rigidity and the first cut on a 4-sided object can be kind of unhappy, as it begins to transform into a cylinder. Since you have a bandsaw and all you might consider octagoning the blank. It makes the first cuts go a lot easier and more quickly.