{"id":69,"date":"2018-02-02T18:29:25","date_gmt":"2018-02-03T02:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.plum-line.com\/blog\/?p=69"},"modified":"2018-02-02T21:51:21","modified_gmt":"2018-02-03T05:51:21","slug":"new-lathe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.plum-line.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/02\/new-lathe\/","title":{"rendered":"New Lathe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.plum-line.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/lathe_2018-01-21.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-71\" src=\"http:\/\/www.plum-line.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/lathe_2018-01-21-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"lathe_2018-01-21\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.plum-line.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/lathe_2018-01-21-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.plum-line.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/lathe_2018-01-21-scaled-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.plum-line.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/lathe_2018-01-21-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I finally got around to purchasing a replacement lathe. My old lathe was just too big for my little shop. I attempted to make a lathe out of various bits and pieces, and even turned a couple items with the lathe, but holding the work was sketchy at best.<\/p>\n<p>The new lathe is smaller, a 10 x 18 1\/2 hp lathe from Harbor Freight. Considering the source, it is actually pretty nice.<\/p>\n<p>When I got it home, I unpacked it right away and turned it on and investigated to make sure it would suit my purposes.<\/p>\n<p>In order to get it off my workbench, I made a quick stand out of a couple lengths of 2 x 10 by cutting &#8216;finger joints&#8217; by a combination of scroll saw, band saw, jigsaw and chiseling. Still yet to create\/design are shelves or drawers to hold the supplies.<\/p>\n<p>I turned a top (of course) and a couple flat bowls just to investigate how it works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finally got around to purchasing a replacement lathe. My old lathe was just too big for my little shop. I attempted to make a lathe out of various bits and pieces, and even turned a couple items with the lathe, but holding the work was sketchy at best. The new lathe is smaller, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plum-line.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plum-line.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plum-line.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plum-line.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plum-line.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.plum-line.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72,"href":"https:\/\/www.plum-line.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions\/72"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plum-line.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plum-line.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plum-line.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}