Check out this lathe

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Growley
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Post by Growley »

Here's one I've never seen before.

http://youtu.be/eG9R0q9QJQc[/youtube]

http://youtu.be/eG9R0q9QJQc

Not sure I know how to insert the video, but here's the link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eG9R0q9QJQc
Traveling Wilbury
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That was wicked, and I lust after your drill press....
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Growley wrote:Here's one I've never seen before.

http://youtu.be/eG9R0q9QJQc[/youtube]

http://youtu.be/eG9R0q9QJQc

Not sure I know how to insert the video, but here's the link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eG9R0q9QJQc
I got a better one than that:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnv0DAR_gWA

This is really old school.

Rad
e Markle
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I got a better one than that:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnv0DAR_gWA

This is really old school.

Rad[/quote]

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PipesByDesign
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It depresses me that his feet are more skilled than my hands...

Why must you post such things!?
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oklahoma red
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There is an old saying that it takes a lathe to make a lathe. Something like that bow lathe has to be approaching the "big bang". Amazing.
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Here be Olde School Supreme:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mz7PJ2WuLWA
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oklahoma red
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I'll bet this guy can rub his belly and pat his head at the same time.
Gee, I wonder why his right leg is twice the diameter of his left?
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oklahoma red wrote:Gee, I wonder why his right leg is twice the diameter of his left?
Because he didn't have one of these?
http://www.americanartifacts.com/smma/advert/ay208.htm
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Because he didn't have one of these?
http://www.americanartifacts.com/smma/advert/ay208.htm
Now that is what you call Yankee ingenuity!
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