On Wed, 19 Jul 2017 14:14:26 -0700 (PDT)
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A sliding headstock lathe eliminates the need to even think about
having separate bowl and spindle lathes. Or compromising by using
one to do the other task. Bowl lathes are basically short bed lathes
with a large swing. And spindle lathes are long bed lathes. Sliding
headstock lathes allow you to have BOTH a short and long bed on the
same lathe. With a bowl lathe you stand at the end of the bed and
hollow out the inside of the bowl. No bending over the short bed.
With a sliding headstock lathe you can slide the head to the end of
the bed and then stand at the end of the bed and hollow out the
inside of the bowl. No need to bend over the bed.

yep

glad you are clearing things up
again

if you mentioned it i missed it but bending over is unsafe for many reasons

fatigue and big chance of making contact and harder to see into the
bowl or form