My latest project, a set of 6ft columns for a victorian restoration .

Very nice. That’s quite a lathe you’ve got there.

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

Looks great, I’s love to see the completed project

-- Whoever finds mistakes can keep them. English is a foreign language to me.

Welcome to Lumberjocks. Nice little lathe you have there, what is it? Those columns look great and should
look good in the entryway. What type of finish will they have? Thank you for sharing, and hope you enjoy
many more years turning.

-- As ever, Gus-the 74 yr young apprentice carpenter

NICE !....yeah so are the colums..whats the length an name brand of the lathe.. i like tools lol….

thanks keep posting those projects

-- IF YOUR NOT MAKING DUST...YOU ARE COLLECTING IT! SOUTH CAROLINA.

That’s an amazing lathe, nice turnings

-- W James Brokenbourgh Custom furniture maker http://artisticwoodstudio.com/

Impressive… nothing like working in small scale…!! I guess this goes under the heading of size matters.

-- Al H. - small shop, small projects...

Wow very cool. I like your lathe, now that is a lathe !!!!

-- Woodman12608, cedar Lake, IN

Thanks all. The columns are a a layup of 16/4 molding grade sugar pine. They will be painted White. The newels (not shown yet) are 8/4 red oak with straight tapers 38” long. The lathe is a Oneway 2436 with a 3hp motor stretched to handle 9 1/2 feet between centers.

PS. dustyal, At 6’2” 295# I am a big guy. I have had major health issues since I was 25. As a result I tend to look at life as a BIG adventure! Although sometimes adventures include a lot of pucker factor.

-- Bill Zerby

Wow that’s a sweet looking lathe u have there

Monster of a lathe. Oneway with bed extensions? I’m not much of a turner. The posts are fantastic. Nice work.

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Wow, that’s a pretty serious setup. The 2436 is among the top couple lathes on the market, and a real ‘wanna-have’ for most woodturners. Having the extra bed to extend the lathe over 9’ is pretty cool, but it’s built well enough to handle the load. In old days, had to have access to big pattern makers lathes, but this is a great solution and much easier to move should need arise.

Columns look good from what I can see…and they probably need a reference object to appreciate size, as alot of folks aren’t famililar with just how large that lathe is.

Nice!

Victorian restorations are always a very tedious and meticulous undertaking Bill. So have fun and keep on recreating what is a very difficult art form. Great turnings Bill!!!!!

-- The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. "Helen Keller"

Wow what a lathe! Now I have had my “Tool Drool” for the day…. Nice work.

Bill, thank you for the info, I had heard of OneWay, but had never heard of the 2436 Lathe, now I have a
serious case of tool envy/drool, that I will just have to live with.

-- As ever, Gus-the 74 yr young apprentice carpenter

The 2436 is the bigboy
http://www.oneway.ca/index.php?option=com_virtuemart&page=shop.browse&category_id=18&Itemid=2

Model: 2436
Swing: 24”
Between Centers: 36”
Total Length: 60”
Weight: 850 lbs.

-- My dad and I built a 65 chev pick up.I killed trannys in that thing for some reason-Hog