 Old Time Woodworking #1: Building a Spring Pole Lathe.....the baseI have been moving towards hands tools and out of power tools lately. I sold my delta power planer gasp and bought some yellow pine lumber to build a spring pole lathe. I worked on it today and got the base “finished”. For more details visit here . H ope you all have a great weekend in the shop.  The Slowest Farm Shop #5: Progress on Shaving horse, spring pole lathe, and a mystery tool...Well, I promised pictures last time, and I have some..I started on the spring pole lathe, which is my big project for this summer/fall, and I decided after much goings on to not make a treadle lathe, meaning in this case continuous motion, but a traditional spring pole lathe, where the piece rotates once or more (hopefully many more) times, then back again. Why? I was inspired by a couple things, like poverty and such, but also after doing months of research into it, it’s just what appe...  
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