Toller wrote:
I have just finished a bowl turning course; my first lathe work. The
instructor is very casual about safety; he says that is reasonable, since no
one ever get hurt on a lathe. I wonder how true that is.

You're kidding right? In HS metal shop I was standing right next to a
kid wearing a long sleeve sweater working on a lathe. Sweater got
caught on the work and ripped completely off his body before he or I
could hit the red button.

Luckily no major injury, bruises and brush burns from the fabric, but
could have been much worse. He did have to indure the humilitaion of
having his sweater stapled to the bulletin board in the class for the
rest of the year.

The instructor is a jackass and has no business trying to teach anyone
anything.