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"Max" wrote:

Could someone here recommend a book or, preferably, a video on lathe
operation?
Thanks,

Newby Max

Proper safety gear (web search should make clear, or just ask here -
full faceshield, with or without hard-hat depending on what you are
taking on, and avoid things that get caught in rotating parts, like long
hair and loose sleeves, or ties)

A pile of firewood.

Something to burn the results in for a while.

No book or video will do you half the good that turning will. But you
can't reasonably expect to learn if you are worrying about a $20 blank -
thus the firewood. If you get something that you want to keep, great -
otherwise, it was going to burn anyway.

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