I recently got interested in making
a medieval style lathe. I looked around the web and found a few sites with
lathe history and recreations. I found Tom
Rettie's lathe design the most appealing so I modeled mine based on
his. My persona is from the Viking period so I decided to use a spring
pole lathe design rather than using a wheel to drive the work since the
wheel seemed to be a late period invention.
So last month I consulted with one of our friendly neighbors, and began work on my lathe. Well last weekend I got it to the point where I could try it out! It still needs a lot of work but it was nice to actually make something with it. I was amazed that it actually worked.
Anyway, here is a picture of it:
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The springiness is currently provided by a couple of bungie cords. The
work left to do includes:
It was such a nice day today, I decided to work outside.