Drill Lathe Mk 1 Mod 0

[Johnny Farnen]

Hello All.

Took a little more time off on this project than I had intended. I also had to "cheat" and buy 20 bucks worth of hardware. I haven't finished the electrical yet and am currently using a velcro strip as my controller!

Since my primary mission with this drill lathe is to turn blanks for custom fly rod handles, I haven't bothered to build the real tool rest or chucks. The hardware I purchased was for the fly rod grim mandrel:



Here it is in action turning a custom pine cone scale and resin grip:

Notice my "adjustable tool rest. The metal bar is one of the arms off of the office door restrictors I used a slide rails for the tail stock. Still needs some refinement, but for now it is doing what I need it to do!

Here are some stills of the same grip turned on this lathe:


So far so good, a quick clear coat and that one is done. Going to spend the weekend hand gluing pine scales to a cork core and coating them with resin. Will hopefully get the power, saftey and speed controller hooked up too!