How Do You Pick The Right Woodworking Lathe?
The more experience you have as a wood turner, the easier it will be to choose your next lathe. To accommodate everyone from beginner to expert, I will try to keep my comments basic and yet complete. If you are an expert, please bear with me. If you are a beginner, this article may save you a lot of headaches at the school of hard knocks. I’d like to start out by saying that creating beautiful turnings is an art which requires a certain amount of specialized talent. The only way for you to know if you have this talent is to take some lessons from someone else who does. You can be an excellent woodworker, adept at the table saw, band saw or router and yet, you may not have the particular kind of fine touch that it takes to be a master at the lathe. Before you fork out your hard-earned dollars for a dream lathe, get some experience first. There are some basic things to know when shopping for a lathe and probably the most important question you might want to ask yourself is, “What do I wa
