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How's This For A Crazy Smart Idea?
Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 3:24 pm
by Frank
Scale this sucker down for pipemaking and you'd have a larger swing for stummels and a smaller swing for stems all-in-one machine:
http://shopswarf.orconhosting.net.nz/mcl.html 
Re: How's This For A Crazy Smart Idea?
Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 4:40 pm
by caskwith
Why cant you use a larger swing lathe for stem work? A large lathe will do just as good a job on stems as it will on stummels.
Re: How's This For A Crazy Smart Idea?
Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 6:19 pm
by Frank
caskwith wrote:Why cant you use a larger swing lathe for stem work? A large lathe will do just as good a job on stems as it will on stummels.
See the little laughy guy rolling around on the floor? It's tongue in cheek, mate.
Re: How's This For A Crazy Smart Idea?
Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2009 4:34 am
by caskwith
Ok thats the second stupid thing i said yesterday! lol
Give me a break i had a hard day, 1 flawed briar block, then a flawed Morta block. Finally on attempt three i had a good pipe. By the end of the day i was having serious senior moments, lol
Am i forgiven,
Re: How's This For A Crazy Smart Idea?
Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2009 1:29 pm
by Frank
caskwith wrote:Am i forgiven,
No sweat. I feel for you, losing 2 stummels.
Re: How's This For A Crazy Smart Idea?
Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2009 10:50 am
by Nick
Really cool!!