Cheers Todd.

I am glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for your comment.

Hi Denise, my workshop is pretty cold at the moment as well. It certainly slows things down! Thank you for watching my videos and your kind comments.

Thanks 🤗

Thanks for watching

Hi Jim, I think a lathe is a tool that you don’t know how you managed without it once you have one. They open up so many possibilities in automata making. I originally bought a Sherline to replace a wood lathe. These are super little machines and you can find fantastic work on the internet that people have done with them. I had a phase of making steam engines though and in my hands the Sherline struggled with steel so I invested in a Wabeco 4000. I converted the Sherline to CNC and still use it to make batched of eyes, brass axle ends and crank handles. I now make quite a lot of smaller automata with tiny parts and the Wabeco is overkill for this so I now have a Proxxon 250e. I use the Wabeco for thicker stock as it has a 20mm capacity through the spindle. The Proxxon, with a quick change tool post, is a fantastic machine for most of what I do and I probably spend more time on it than any other tool. Whether it is making washers and bushings, boring through dowel, making threads and axle pins, etc. I am turning (excuse the pun) to it all the time. At the time of buying the Proxxon I also looked at Taig which look very functional machines.

Thank you

Sorry, not for this one.