On Sep 4, 12:44 am, charlieb wrote:

SNIP


Get a mini lathe - the JET VS will keep you busy
and you can turn prunings. You'll also develop
the ability to hear a running chainsaw from a
mile away.

charlie b

Boy oh boy, is that the truth. I hadn't turned since early high
school, and being totally burned out on flat work I got a Jet mini to
test out back in '97. I turned for hours and hours at a time,
sometimes all weekend when I go that damn thing.

I finally took a year off last year and let the damn thing sit a
while. I have turned everything I could think of out of anything I
could get my hands on. Lamps, treenware, pens, mallets, Christmans
ornaments, jewelry, bowls, weedpots.... the list is endless. It is
fun to raid the firewood pile and turn something out of it.

Conceptually, woodturning to me is not woodworking in the normal
sense. It uses an entirely different set of skills and imagination.
No two turners (that have been turning for a while) turn anything the
same way with the same tools. That's the fun of it as there really
aren't any real hard, fast rules to observe.

Robert