Working with the treadle lathe.

nice mushrooms are you using wet wood

-- http://robbipowerwoodturner.blogspot.com/

Very nice work. I’ll bet the relative silence is nice too.

What are the boat parts? I don’t know how this will translate but the last photo looks like a rigging block shell or maybe a parrel bead for a gaff rig.

-- Paul M ..............If God wanted us to have fiberglass boats he would have given us fiberglass trees. http://prmdesigns.com/

Nice work, and probably a good work out too

-- Don, Royersford, PA

That is a piece of art. I have been wanting a lathe – just got a small Jet and Shopsmith. Looks great. Can it turn bowls?

Thanks for sharing this great lathe. I believe you when you say it works as well as it looks. Since I have had the opportunity to work on a lathe like this in Archeon in Alphen aan de Rijn it is the first item on my Saint Nicolaas wishing list. (Not to receive but to build.) Thanks also for your great blog on ‘hout-en-boten’. If you don’t mind, I like to follow your footsteps.

-- Douwe

great piece of work. I’ve got one of these somewhere way down on my bucket list. Thanks for sharing yours.

-- From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned. Immanuel Kant

Your mushrooms look very cleanly cut and nicely done. I have no doubt that you have a really good quality treadle lathe there.

-- Mike, American in Norway

Looks like fun

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

The boat parts ar for the mainsail, the bands around the mast at a gaff-rigged boat.

The mushrooms are turned from maple, cut down about a year ago.

Please feel free to build a lathe like this.

I have serious lathe envy.

-- Make furniture that lasts as long as the tree - Ryan

The boat parts ar for the mainsail, the bands around the mast at a gaff-rigged boat.

Thanks, I was right. They are called parrel beads in English. I have them on my boat

-- Paul M ..............If God wanted us to have fiberglass boats he would have given us fiberglass trees. http://prmdesigns.com/

hi tuoh’s i made a lathe something like this one its made from beech
you can see it on my you tube channel there is two videos of it there one is me making a spinning top on it i have to say your one is amazing i love it

I put a link to it here i hope you don’t mind

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pb1tGSsX4VI&list=PL92CF7E9965278DCD&index=1&feature=plpp_video

-- http://robbipowerwoodturner.blogspot.com/

A fascinating tool. How hard do you have to work to keep it turning? Is it like a marathon effort or more of a light jog?

-- "Checking for square? what madness is this! The cabinet is square because I will it to be so!" Jeremy Greiner LJ Topic#20953 2011 Feb 2

A fascinating tool. How hard do you have to work to keep it turning? Is it like a marathon effort or more of a light jog?

The work is similar to cycling, slightly downhill:-)))

@robbiethewood, very nice lathe, very nice turning.

Hmmmm, that sounds easy enough. Thank you for the inspiration!

-- "Checking for square? what madness is this! The cabinet is square because I will it to be so!" Jeremy Greiner LJ Topic#20953 2011 Feb 2