This week I got the lathe and mill hooked up to power. What did I do without my own equipment for so long????

My first project was getting Mrs. Wonky’s parts done. Turning the stainless backrest top screw:

Tapping the bottom disc:

I needed a mandrel to turn some aluminum discs for another project. The discs have 3/4 inch holes in the center. I was planning to make the tool when I remembered that in my tool box was a mandrel that I had made as an apprentice twenty years before. Sure enough it was a 3/4 inch mandrel. It had never been used. Today I used it for the first time.

Cheers and thanks for stopping by. 

Update: Turning lamp part in aluminum:

Tags: art, Clausing lathe, Paul McClelland, PM Custom, studio furniture

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