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@Marc-Antoine Get a lathe. If it is belt driven, you can keep the belt loose so if you catch, you'll stall the work piece. If it's a DC motor, you can re-adjust the torque and make it weaker, same with an AC drive. Made sure you spend time properly sharpening the tools. Have longer...

@Marc-Antoine I was worried about this one. Trued it up to 2ft. Dished out a cutter, seems to hog out nice and deep and still leaves a decent surface.

Oh yeah. Heat and quench. Also yes with the hand and wrist. So I made longer tools and try new cutter profiles.

Bent up and sharpened an old metal file to make a hooked skew cutter.

Turning bowl blanks. I have to keep in mind the diameter, since it has to fit my smaller lathes. Still a bit of adjusting needed on the pattern makers lathe.

Got the head and tail stock, and the carriage mounted. Had to to make a new shaft for the carriage feed since it was bent. Need to find/make a handwheel or gear feed. I have a few jobs lined up for it.

I shored up my I beam, lifted the bed onto a log/slab cart and a bare trailer axle, moved it myself into place. Wasn't that bad.

You're telling me! I can't even move the bed around.

Well, on Facebook marketplace this came up.for sale, much less than scrap value. 32" swing, 11-12' work piece length. Only problem is it's bloody heavy, had to tear it apart down to the bed, which alone weighed 1.ton. My chainfall has a 1ton limit. Has everything I'm trying to fabricate. I've...

Finally got around to making a live center for my outside lathe to mount on the tailstock I made. Ended up putting another bearing on. I have some spindles to make.

Got a little job to turn a 66" long replacement spire. My working lathe only does 24".

I'm making some replacement spindle for someone restoring a property, 66" long, but I'm.going to join 3 sections together. This is one section.

Got my 12" swing lathe shaft running true again after I bent the 3/4" 16tpi mount. Cut it a little smaller diameter by accident so I opted to loctite a 1"8tpi adapter on it to make it a standard size. Now to weld up a regular banjo and tool rest, and make a faceplate if I can't find one cheap.

Aged mulberry with tung oil

Added some extra brackets, since the lathe was shaking, mocked up a chisel holder, going to make a nicer one in walnut. Managed to turn another pet urn fairly quickly and much easier with the lathe lower. I still have to get a better mount for the light and fix up some wiring.

I've decided the cheap wood lathe I have is too high, so I welded up a frame for it from left over steel from a job I did. Repurposed the tail end support as a cabinet. Now to make a turning tools holder.

I don't think bowls will sell in my area, so I thinks to my self people would probably pay for pet urns. Mulberry. I'll sand it some more and wait till it turns red and oil it.

I needed a brass ferrule and I guess all I had was plumbing parts. The bowl gouge did what a bowl gouge should do. Red oak.

I could use a 5/8" bowl gouge. But I have no cash. My Dad had a tool steel pry bar he never used. Did a little grinding. Walnut handle.

More butternut. 6 1/4" diameter by 5" high finished with mineral oil.