Been too damn busy with my new lathe:-)
Finally went out and got my own shop set up so I can take work home.
Now have a general tablesaw(quite old, but well set up and taken care of)
the usual list of power and hand tools taking up a wall(drills, tap/die
sets, etc etc)
General maxi lathe,
Delta variable speed grinder.
so I just wanted to say thanks again to all of youse in the newsgroup,
it was reading here (and asking questions which I'm sure everyone got
fed up with) that finally got me interested, and I now turn for a living.

for some actually decent content, does anyone here use Hamlet gouges? I
ended going with them because they are more then 3x longer lasting then
P&N if you go by the numbers, and only 3 times as expenseive.

and I now recommend the delta variable speed higly, it was 129$CAN, and
runs anywhere from 2200rpm to 3300 IIRC, the wheels that come with are
good(a coarse grey for shovels and such, and a finer white for tools)
the only downside is they put a drill bit groove in the white wheel
rest, and it is too shallow and wide, interferes with tool sharpening.

--

Maybe I'm just a pessimist and am totally wrong; I could live quite
happily with that.
-SATAN
Sane people are just lunatics in denial.
_Delta Nine