They have electricity now, you know...

My lathe is almost done! The whole apparatus is up and the shaft that Meredith and company were so gracious to machine for me, is in place. Now all I need to do is to cut the flywheel and make a crankshaft for the treadle. Now the picture isn’t mine but it is actually where I got the idea. I'll get mine on here as soon as I'm done with it. Now this thing is all human powered so I’m probably going to have one giant leg after using it for a while. And seeing as how I have the whole hairy hippy thing going on at the moment, patchouli scented earth friendly human powered woodworking tools will fit right in with the theme. For those of you that don’t know what a lathe is, its a tools that been around for damn near forever and makes things like spindles and bowls. Its spins the wood around an axis and then you place a tool next to the spinning wood. It will then make whatever that is...round. I’m not interested in spindles at the moment... for that matter I don’t think that I even like spindles. Too gingerbready for me. I want to make these...they’re called stave drum shells and I’ve got a blank at home that has been collecting dust. Imagine that you are down on the top of a drum. Now imagine that the cylinder is a twenty-sided polygon. You know what...its just easier to say that I’m going to make drum shells on a lathe that I built.