Cast Aluminum Faceplate For Lathe

[thetoolshed]

Howdy y'all! New supporter here. Love this stuff. Anyway, for my own introduction I'd like to put forth one of my builds.

Being able to cast your own tools is a real gift. This was a faceplate I made for my small craftsman lathe. I had intended there to be slots through it but that didn't work out.

Initial casting. You can see I used the pouring sprue as the MT2 beginning:


Rough cast:


Turning it all pretty:


Turning the morse taper with tailstock offset:


Adding a drawbar: