Retired Engineer wants to play with miniature lathes!!!

Hi,

I am a retired communications engineer, and I enjoy metal and wood working.

I like thinks compact, I have a Unimat 3 and a Unimat SL1000 with almost complete tooling. I enjoy building stuff, and I am trying my hand in jewelry making.

I am glad I found this webpage!!! So many things to build!!!

otil2001

New here myself.

I run several Sherline machine tools out of my small shop. Glad to see I'm not the only compact minded guy.

:welcome: Welcome to HomemadeTools.net otil2001. Nice to have you on board. I've found that the smaller something is, the more skill required to build it.

Hi otil2001,

:welcome: I've got a ton of respect for the skill required to build small-scale items. Seems as though I'm always working on large "stuff"… :D

Take a moment to peruse our Machining and Woodworking category pages; you're sure to find one or two (hundred, at least!) tools and/or projects of interest.

When you're ready to share some of your own homemade tools, we'd love to see them. Please post them directly in the Homemade Tools, subforum. We'll add each one to the database, as well as to your builder page on the site.

Non-tool items should be shared in the Not a Tool, but Homemade subforum.

Ken

I agree with Jon, that building miniature stuff takes considerable skill. Looking forward to stuff you guys have made.

Hello and welcome to HT, otil2001.

Al

otil2001... :welcome:

Hello otil2001,

Glad to see another owner of a Unimat SL 1000 lathe. One of my lathes is also the same Unimat model. I have published several articles at homemadetools.net about my Unimat modications. I hope to see photos of your work on HMT.

Welcome, Paul Jones