On Tue, 7 Feb 2017 03:43:38 -0800 (PST)
"Dr. Deb" wrote:

what he started, I ordered the attachment and drilled the holes to
mount it. Discovered it would stick out into the walkway and I
really did not want to hit that 40lb of cast iron with my knee.

makes sense

now i thought the larger rikons had a moving headstock
but maybe that is only the late models


So, I decided to rearrange my shop, which entailed moving the lathe,
ripping out existing benches and cabinets and building a new 8' base
cabinet with 16drawers and two shelves. I figured I would be
finished with the referb by the 7th of January. It took longer than

sounds ambitious

Yesterday, I finished the first bowl turned on the new setup. The
setup worked better than I thought it would and the bowl was
passable. The blank was a 16"chunk of heavily spalted pecan, which
made it impossible to balance - thank God for the variable speed. I
said it turned out passable because I could not get the bottom of the
bowl smooth as a baby's butt, because of the tearout due to the

i recall the first time i encountered tear out with some found wood
that had been at sea for a long time

never could fix it on the lathe so i put sandpaper to it because i had
no choice really

started very coarse like 40 or 50 than worked my way up

it came out suitably but not museum quality


do wonder if reversing the lathe and turning the tear out section would
be a solution

my lathe does not reverse