Grizzly.com has a hobby lathe that uses a drill as a headstock and it works
pretty good for doing pens and small items.
go to http://www.grizzly.com/products/item.cfm?itemnumber=H2669
Also Harborfreight has a decent collection of lathes for short money. I just
purchased a lathe from them for $269
( http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/Displayitem.taf?itemnumber=34706 )
and it's pretty much the same as the
Jet JWL1236/708352 12" Variable Speed Wood Lathe with Stand (which sells for
$600 +)
Be careful of buying lathes from Ebay unless it's a name brand you can check
out on the net.
My first lathe was a No-Name lathe and I couldn't find chucks and
accessories to fit it..
-Wayne
"D K Woods" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Well, it looks like a cheap way to product some pens....
>
> Anybody tried it? Thoughts? Comments?
>
> david
> --
> So, we've got Uday and Qusay. Now, how about the Eapons-way of Ass-may
> Estruction-day?
I posed this question once and the majority of the replies had to do the
inconvenience of working vertically. I have a big floor DP.
If you have a smaller one, I suppose you could always lay it down.
Mark from Pasadena, MD
D K Woods wrote:
> Well, it looks like a cheap way to product some pens....
>
> Anybody tried it? Thoughts? Comments?
>
> david