Max63 wrote:
Being a new turner, Im building the metal framed table on which the
lathe will be fixed. Assuming the axis of turning should be at elbow
height (or lower? please correct me), Ive calculated the sum of parts
(wood caps + metal frame + wood top + lathe axis height) to add up to
my own elbow height. Before (permanently) fixing it to the wall, Id
appreciate any input.
Is your axis of turning exactly elbow high? If you could change it,
would you add or subtract a few inches?
Speak now or forever hold your breath...
Thanks.

I'm with everyone else on the height but bolting it to the wall could
present another problem. I put my old Yates American where the center
of the spindle is approximately 12" from the wall. I don't have any
problems doing bowls, pens, boxes or the like but......... a hollow
form? Now I'm in trouble, there are times that when I need to push the
handle of the tool far away from me and it keeps hitting the wall. I
actually have to pull the shaft of the tool out of the handle making it
only about 16" long. But at this point I'm trying to hold a 1/2" steel
rod trying to take light cuts so it doesn't go out of control. I would
so much like to have the extra 24" handle on there, but.... the wall.
I'm thinking about moving the lathe away from the wall completely.