My first lathe

Wife and child helping?

LOL….your dating yourself Jim !!!

-- Don S.E. OK

And I thought MY job sucked. :-)

-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"

You and Don got me Lew for a minute then I went back to the photo to see if there was a wife and child there, there all guys ,guys funny stuff.

-- Jim from Heirloom Woodshop Southern Oregon

Ahhh, a multi-speed function and dual pulley system. Must be the professional-grade, contractor model.

-- Randy, Tupelo, MS ~ May I become more like the Master Carpenter every day.

probably more accurate than lathes today:-)

-- There is no such thing as a mistake. Its called a design modification Rick Kruse, Grand Rapids, MI

I have seen a very similar one demo’ed at a wood show in Richmond. It was part of the exhibit at Colonial Williamsburg. It worked great. The big difference was that the Williamsburg lathe was treadle powered – ideal for the bathelor woodworker!

-- Whatever

That is a better job than the bottom guy in a pit saw.

-- Drink once, cut twice. New website up.... lazylarrywoodworks.com.au

Nice workbench top!
beefy!

-- Francisco Luna, San Francisco Bay Area.

Good Lord Jim.. Just how old are you???? LOL they have little slots in the wall that a stringy thing goes into to power up these days..:)

-- Randall Child

Hey Randall
Thats back when I was in my twenties back about 1840 LOL. I think I’ve seen about 60 of those stingy things in my shop, Power you say? He he

-- Jim from Heirloom Woodshop Southern Oregon

Just think these machine were the predecessor of treadmill and bowflex …no big deal, fit and trim…Blkcherry

Hey BC
I knew I had to stop cranking that thing I was just getting to close to that Charles Atlas Look HA HAAAA

-- Jim from Heirloom Woodshop Southern Oregon

Turn, turn, turn that wood, gently on the bench…
Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, my armpits are a stench…

-- /\/\/\ BarryW /\/\/\ Stay so busy you don't have time to die.

Wouldn’t it be easier to just put some lettuce powered hamsters in there to run the thing?

-- Mike, American in Norway

REminds me of my dad fixing his 3 cubic foot cement mixer so I could turn it where we didn’t have power out in the field when I was a kid :-(

-- Debt is nothing more than the 21st Century's form of slavery.

Wow that sounds tough

-- Jim from Heirloom Woodshop Southern Oregon

I mixed enough to make a concrete irrigation ditch 2 or 3 hundred feet long with a house keeping apron about 18” wide on the back side to keep the weeds down. Little Bro was a couple years younger and didn’t have enough poop to mix it :-(( Like LB said one day, if we didn’t learn how to work it wasn’t dad’s fault :-))
Turning that lathe with a big fly wheel would be a breeze compared to mixing concrete without a fly wheel to keep it going!!

-- Debt is nothing more than the 21st Century's form of slavery.

I don’t think I’m up for either

-- Jim from Heirloom Woodshop Southern Oregon

Faster Jim, faster!!!!!!!

-- Kent Shepherd * The goal is-----More Tools!

That is actually not a lathe but a well patented circumcision device patented in the USA. Which did well till they eventually let the Japanese see it and they came out with the mini pocket size version commonly known now as the THE PENCIL SHARPENNER Alistair

-- excuse my typing as I have a form of parkinsons disease

This sounds interesting Alistair. Do we have any volunteers for the older USA pattened devise? Kent??? YAAOUCH LOL

-- Jim from Heirloom Woodshop Southern Oregon