Hello I’ve been looking for a full fully encompassing pen kit that has the mandrel and the tail stock, as well as the bushings and supplies does anybody have any recommendations? turned a couple bowls.

My woodturning club has just merged with a local community shed/maker-space and we have quite a few people now wanting to learn woodturning.

Our experienced turners are very happy to teach others how to turn but we're not sure where to start and what order to teach them the different skills.

Does anyone have a learning guide they could share or could point me to so that I can set something up for our club to use?

The tennon is solid. The hole is two inches into an eleven inch bowl. Could end up looking cool.

Look for a jig to sharpen spindle & bowl gouges with this style wheel. Any recommendations; either for or against a certain brand or style?

And it's my 2nd finished product other than my muddler. Unsure what type of wood since it was from scrap dumped in the nature reserve. Smells slightly sweet, maybe a fruit? Someone said golden robinia?

I'm currently off grid with my only power coming from two old 1-kWh deep cycle batteries. I'm eager to get into wood turning but curious what options I have available with my power situation. I'm an engineer so I'm open to more complex solutions. Though, I'd prefer not to outright make my own pedal lathe haha

Is sweet gum good for turning? Have access to a whole bunch

I'm currently using my Nova Saturn on a bench which is fixed to the wall but am considering reorganising everything. If you have the options would you have your lathe on a flat bench, with the option of shelves underneath or on a bespoke set of metal legs, leaving empty space on the far side of the lathe?

I dont have room to move the bench or legs around if there was an option to have either on castors - when its in place it will be staying where it is.

Turned a small bowl from honey locust, under blacklight.

I think it looks like E.T.

Thanks, everybody who responded to my earlier question. I ended up getting the Rikon 70-100.

Next, tools. I know people like Benjamin's Best/PSI for cheap tools, but I haven't seen anybody mention Lee Valley's "Economy" tools. They cost $40-55 each, so they're somewhat more expensive than the Benjamin's, but Lee Valley has amazing customer service and I just like them. Here's one.

So has anybody tried them? What did you think? Are they a bad idea? Should I just go with Henry Taylor?

Just CA glued it right on. Actually turned it with a Rockler mandrel for bottle openers, and then glued it right over the hole when I dismounted.

Black walnuts cleaned, dried, drilled, and glued onto wooden dowels. They make fun gifts because of the play on words. I hope it is permitted here.

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i have this lathe but dont know how to takke the tail stock out to put in my drill chuck

Bought a Bauer chuck set from Harbor Freight and its really decent. Wanted another and got a Nova G3. The Bauer jaws and G3 jaws are interchangeable.

After a rather 'controversial' post yesterday I called my grandpa who's been a woodworker my entire life and he told me some tips. I also watched a lot of the videos you just suggested, corrected my posture and where my hands were. I made my first pen! And kept all my fingers intact! Thank you guys for all your help

I've been going back and forth with Teknatool about the fact that the lathe I just bought lacks the 4 preset speeds it is supposed to have. The brake, too, was a problem until I figured out how to turn it off. When it was engaged, it came on pretty slowly , then remained engaged for another 4 seconds or so, during which time, if I moved the spindle manually, it would remain engaged for additional time. Keep moving it and it will never disengage. I forgot to ask Teknatool about this function so if any of you folks that have this lathe can verify whether this was normal brake behavior or aberrant, I would would very much appreciate it. With a wooden overlay on the headstock hand wheel, the brake is really not necessary for me anyway with the size pieces I usually turn.

Anyway, this morning I discovered that I could seemingly assign preset speeds and did so, only to have the lathe try to spin up to over 5000 rpm instead of the 350 in my preset. I I think the speed on the display read 5230. That happened 2 or 3 times this morning while I had a very unbalanced piece of oak mounted and I almost wet my pants. Very scary. After that I contacted Amazon to return it and was able to arrange to send it back assembled instead of trying to get it back into the packaging it came in. That was a relief. Once it gets back to Acme, and assuming they refund my money, I expect I will just buy another one from another vendor. I really like the lathe. It is like driving a BMW instead of a Pinto (old guy reference) and until I found this random preset overspeed problem, I thought I might keep it and just not worry about the preset speed function.

Teknatool tried to resolve this for me but I didn't like the options, Option one was to have me install software on a PC (I use a Mac) and download the correct firmware into the HMI. Although I have a PC, I'm a Mac guy and when my first I couldn't even get the software installed, I opted out. Then they wanted to have me remove the HMI panel and ship it to then on their dime, then they would update it and send it back the same day. When I asked if I screwed it up somehow, would they or I be responsible, there was no response, so I opted out of that solution too.

I'm going to end up going probably close to a month now, without a lathe, which sucks. I don't have any problem with either Teknatool or Acme at this point. This time it just didn't work out.

Spalted Oak piece currently spinning on the lathe at 100 rpm while the finish firms up.