Excellent! As a child I watched older family friends and relatives use spring pole lathes to make chair legs and spindles and I wanted to recreate that in a smaller version which didn't require a giant spring pole. This is perfect thank you!
Thank you for all of your tips on your videos. I prefer inches but if it was metric I would figure it out If I wanted to build something. My grandfather was a stone mason and a blacksmith and carpenter but his sons never learned and it was all lost with him . so I am so thankful for your videos.
Central to the philosophy of Alastair Macintyre is the idea that participation and immersion in worthwhile activities - what he calls 'practices' - are essential to living a good life of human flourishing. He defines a practice as "any coherent and complex form of socially established cooperative human activity through which goods internal to that form of activity [worthwhile for their own sake] are realized in the course of trying to achieve those standards of excellence which are appropriate to, and partially definitive of, that form of activity" Harry, you have nailed it.
Whats up with these philosophers using such big words that nobody understands. Why not simply say "be part of and do something every day and never stop"
Just discovered your videos, what a joy they are to watch! Your presentation style is nicely paced, engaging, informative and beautifully recorded with great sound and excellent lighting. Thank you very much!
It's 730am in the states and as soon as I get some sunshine I'm building your lathe. This is by far the easiest setup I've seen and I'm so excited. I've been making yarn drop spindles for my sister's yarn shop, having to use dowel rods is a buzz kill for me, can't wait to turn some truly hand crafted pieces of art. Thank you so much for your channel!
@@harryrogers no no thank you. I finished mine around noon yesterday but it started raining on me, and I don't have the bungee yet. I'm excited to test it out!
@@harryrogers oh a quick question, how long should the treadle be? Mine is about 8' long. I was hoping that the extra length might give more rotations. Any input?
@@harryrogers You we're 100% correct. I cut it off at about 6' and so far have made a goblet. Again thank you for making one of my fantasies come true.
Great job Harry, Shows what you can do with a small amount of material, a little time and knowing how to do it! All that counts is that it works! Looks like your wood is a full 2" X 4 " instead of 1 3/4" X 3 1/2". I think we are getting cheated! LOL! take care.
Genius. I have always wanted to learn to turn wood, but with the limitation of space for a power version, plus the cost I have been missing out on this wonderful skill. So, this summer I am planning to build one of these pole lathes and get learning. Being from north east Kent we have turners that demo at the English Festival each year, so maybe I’ll pop along and see what I can learn. Thanks for your efforts in putting this together and making it easy to follow and highly enjoyable. Careful or your cat will be wanting royalties!
thank you for showing plans on your pole lathe i have improved on the the lay out of it a bit and i think i got something useful out of your youtube video very helpfull will try and get some time to put it up on you for other people to use maybe i not see one yet.
im not one for safely sallys, but using that chop saw on the ground with no space made me wince. Also does the cat have to be ginger? i have a black cat will it still work?
You are the first I saw to use the bungie. It looks like it really tightens-up the space. Perhaps one of you will figure out how to make a besslar wheel to power it, a micro- hydro turbine, a radiant energy powered motor, or a water fueled motor.
Excellent video. I would prefer using green timber ash or something but that is only my preference and anyway your design could be adjusted. I am of the age where I grew up with feet and inches and I do not think in metric Thanks again Harry
Hi - yes I built my first one with green oak and still use it a lot......I am inperial at heart because like you I grew up with the 12x table and 240 pennies to a pound!
+Harry Rogers I am with you both. I like feet, ins, bushels, pecks, gills and £ s and d. I remember the tables in school and the chanting of them, it was good teaching in those days, it set me up for life.
I rather like metric though. Everything looks 2,54 times larger when you put it in centimeter... On a more serious note: Thank you for this video. I'm a re-enactor who tries taking his real-life job along for the weekend, and I made a very heavy, very bulky pole lathe for that. (Among other things. I basically have my complete workshop in a modern and a medieval version) Unfortunately, as all joints were friction based, and it has been assembled and taken apart many times over the years, there are now very few original pieces left. This one does not seem to have to be completely taken apart to be moved in my trailer, so I hope it will last me a bit longer than the previous one.
Great instructional video for a great pole lath & after all the versions of a pole lathe that I have researched on u tube, this one is by far the best engineered one for me to build. One question though. How long a chair leg can one turn before the lath bed starts to flex ? Will it be possible to turn a shaker chair leg ( new yankee workshop ) approx 48” long on the lathe ? Thanks for all the hard work you have passed along. Regards. Richard.
Hi Richard...that will be a challenge, I have done it but I used a steady...hole in plank of wood around chair leg clamped to lathe base, to reduce flex.
Harry pleeeeassse...safety first! Adequate space for circular saws, safety glasses when using a bandsaw and pillar drill. Never had an injury? There's always a first time! Otherwise great videos, and thank you 🤗
On the cranks, would adding something like tee-nuts, prevent wear. I'm conscious that where the threads port through the wood, that they will chew it away. Fixing them on the inside and the outside of the crank poppet should prevent future erosion and play in the crank.
Great tutorial! Can you use regular turning tools on a pole Lathe? I ask because I have a nice set of lathe tools but no lathe yet. I've always intended to buy one, but I don't have enough $$ yet and use a small drill powered DYI one for tool handles and small items. I got interested in the pole lathe because of being able to use it outside. I also love building and unfortunately, I have no room in the shop for one. It would have been nice to turn on a pole lathe in the wartrh of my shop this winter!
Suggest please an example of how to think as a woodsman using salvaged wood from pallets and standing dead wood as a material source how that a woodsman was able to feel in conjunction with the lathe chuck center/ lathe bed how to select the height of where to drill the leg pieces and length of respective leg pieces to make a folding portable equipment(not mathematics these guys had a feeling for everything) and have a stable base for relative to my height and respective weight of whole logs or log pieces. I am tired now but when I was still out in the woods I know (probably because of the unknown toxic air conditions) that I wasn't fully able to wrap my thoughts around how to get a stable base for uneven terrain and create a horizontal level bed within what I could envision for my design. Harry, the junk scavenger. That's funny that with the adage for UK that you dont have to fight there to properly make use of good materials despite desperate shortages of Real materials here due to stupid corrupt consumerism having infiltrated.
Thankyou. We built a pole lathe (though without a power saw or any prior experience, I wouldn't call it rapid build). Any recommendations on what to treat the wood with if it's going to be left out in the garden?
Hi Harry,i want to make one,but i do not have the prepared timber. I have a six foot log of field oak. It was laying on the ground for a year or just over,i have it of the ground now & stripped from its bark. The bark was very hard to get off,so yes it is still in great shape. I was wondering if you have any links on how to build a lathe straight from the log please?
Hi Harry just found your video's. They are brilliant very informative with every aspect of each project. Do you own a tool shop you have tools for everything. Brilliant keep on filming.
Mr Rogers, as I was watching your construction of your lathe, I was wondering if your design might allow for a flywheel mechanism with a heavy outer rim of some sort to be added to augment the efficiency of its operation. If placed below the center of gravity, it would aid in the overall stability of the lathe as well.
You could add a flywheel and it would work a little like Leonardo Da Vinci's lathe..........Stuart King has posted a film about this on TH-cam that might interest you!
new subscriber here . love the video . do you have a video on how the rope works a picture of the foot peddle construction and the other end of the rope to show what makes it spring back ?
Hi harry I am working out a list of materials for the lathe. I cannot find the poles you refer too as "metal studding". Could you send me a comment on what it may also be called. I am trying to advance my skills as an apprentice carpenter. Very cool design as well.
sorry if i missed you saying it in the video, but could you tell my the bed height at the tallest setting please? I'm around 6' 5" so i need to figure out if your dimensions will work out nice enough for me.
+oberlater Probably too late to answer this but the height of the lathe is not critical. As you are so tall though, you could always make the uprights a couple of inches (5cm) longer.
hi. haw old is that vice.i found one when i was out metal detecting. i had to stop skip digging.and picking things off the streets as my house was full of stuff what people chuck out.i got some cherry wood from a skip 10 years ago that was a nice find.
ive never seen one before till today after your cool video. ive cleaned the vice and its on my bench now and works well.its good what you find with a metal detector.
Thanks for the video Harry! I've enjoyed watching a lot of your stuff! I am a little baffled though. I can't for the life of me figure out how you are screwing the poppet (sp?) together. I see you screw the two 4 inch length pieces to the 16 in length piece, then you proceed to screw the 12 in piece right on top of the 4 in pieces. but it looks like you use the same spots for the screws. How are you managing to screw 2 layers of 2.5 in screws in the same spot across 3 pieces of wood only 1.5 inches thick?! I'm looking to build something like this and am trying to gather a materials list and make sure I have the process down and I just couldn't figure that one out.
@@harryrogers Thanks SO MUCH for getting back to me so quickly! I'm hoping to get something put together here in the next few weeks so my husband and I can begin learning this craft. Wish we could be in the UK to come to some of your events! I posted this then tried to look for more info about what makes a lathe a bowl lathe, and a quick search isn't turning up anything really except a little in the electric lathe department. If you have a moment could you recommend where I can get more information on building a bowl lathe? Does Mike Abbott's book cover that? I can order that book if it would help. Thanks so much, again. Actually I'm in the middle of watching a series of videos with Sharif Adams by Zed Outdoors--that might answer it
@@sharonrad3317 That sounds very promising...I don't think Mike's books will go into great detail....I know Living Wood does not. You can probably work it out from pictures and TH-cam shots. I turn a bowl in one of my films and there are plenty of shots of Bodgers doing so in others. Rgds Harry
I'm building a pole lathe, and I have no clue what tools I should buy, I'm looking for basic tools for basic projects, and I live in the USA, and can't find any pole lathe told online, any help would be greatly appreciated
Harry Rogers Thank you so much for the quick reply! One more question, instead of using a bungee or a pole, could you use a counter wight like a sand bag?
Zachary Tarbell Yes - you could start with those, and then look around for a deep gouge......I have posted a film on Using a Pole Lathe and chisels to use etc.
Hi - I used 6mm bungee cord which is fine for turning chair legs. the uprights are secured by bolts so that they can be easily removed for transportation. Thanks for your comment Harry
Big respect! Thank you for giving me the means and method to build my own Bungee pole lathe. I have carved a wooden rolling pin from a fallen Rowan branch using just a Surform and half round rasp. It was fun and end result pleasing enough, for a beginner, but awkward to do and so now I really appreciate the many benefits of a Shavehorse and Pole lathe. I have begun on the Shavehorse build and soon the Pole Lathe thanks to your excellent video. I just wondered in the closing footage you have cord tied around the two poppets similarly - what was the purpose of that please?
Hi Barry...that is great...the cord between the poppets is a safety thing...if the wood flies off the lathe it's travel will be halted by the bungee cord hitting that cord, thus protecting any spectators in front of the lathe. Best wishes Harry
Hi I did once make an extension to turn 4 ft back chair legs and it worked but was tricky as the wood whipped around a bit...a shorter bed is stiffer and turning shorter lengths like standard chair legs is easier.
michael houghton Fairly steep....something like 45 degrees will do it...its not critical. If space is tight fix a bungee to the ceiling and have a smaller foot pedal perhaps.
Hi Jack - that is a spare chicken home when cleaning out their main home.....we have such a fox problem I cannot risk the birds being attacked or scared !
Its just balanced on the two ledges........I have tried securing it with a bit of bungee - i.e. like a large rubber band, and for spacers I have used offcuts of wood. Harry
You guys got those measurements from the Brits. Now the Brits generally use metric and a little bit of imperial, but for some reason the U.S. still insists on having almost everything in imperial and Fahrenheit and the dates backwards from the rest of the planet. :D
+calvinfbrown - Well that's just plain wrong and ignorant. During the Victorian and Edwardian era most of the innovations in tool making came from America to Great Britain, not the other way around. As for contemporary Americans, we build all types of things and have many famous experts and master craftsmen. I'm not sure where you got the idea that we don't like to build things but it's totally false.
Really not bad for an amateur, loved that handsome Tom cat passing by not giving a hoot about your doing... Now, no disrespect to you or the British, but you must be the most confused people on the planet: you adopted the metric system but still using inches and foot dimensions, you travel with cars in Km. on speed and Mile signs on the road to tell the distance. It will be nice to adapt to one system and also, it's about time that the British will stop driving on the WRONG side of the road, so much easier on the right side, like most of the world, heh...
Being a Canadian, I know it seems confusing using both metric and imperial but you get used to it. As for right hand drive cars (driving on the left side of the road), studies have shown that countries that drive on the left have fewer accidents per capita per year than we do. It apparently has to do with your dominant eye being inline with opposing traffic. At the end of the day, though, its nothing to be smug about :p
As someone who lived in Europe and US and experienced both systems, I can live with one just fine, I just think it's rather confusing to use both at the same time as I described in my comment before and if I'm not mistaken, since I visited Canada, not sure what you have to add, you're using Metric only and you look like a young man that can adapt easily to either one but, using both at the same time it's rather Insane, if I may add!
I'm not saying living with both metric and imperial is better, just that you can do it pretty easily. canada is officially metric but we still use imperial for construction (some new tradesmen are starting to use metric but it'll be a few generations before that happens), height and weight for people and a huge portion of our population use imperial for speed, distance and temperature - remember that a huge segment of our population are the baby boomers, who predate the change to metric. So they and their kids (the echo boom, my gen) use both. Ask anyone over 15 their weight and they'll use pounds, not kilos. Same for height. Most of us can convert (our doctors and govt use metric) but I'm talking what the people use. Hope that clears it up for ya
I live in a metric country. Been metric nearly 4 decades. But I still use inches. What am I going to do? Lumber still come in inches instead of metric.
Man...... you have to take note of how you smack your mouth. You keep smacking your tounge. It becomes tedious trying to follow you while the elephant in the room is irritating the heck out of you. (Not just me... mate)
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Excellent! As a child I watched older family friends and relatives use spring pole lathes to make chair legs and spindles and I wanted to recreate that in a smaller version which didn't require a giant spring pole. This is perfect thank you!
Thats good to hear thanks.
Thank you for all of your tips on your videos. I prefer inches but if it was metric I would figure it out If I wanted to build something. My grandfather was a stone mason and a blacksmith and carpenter but his sons never learned and it was all lost with him . so I am so thankful for your videos.
Central to the philosophy of Alastair Macintyre is the idea that participation and immersion in worthwhile activities - what he calls 'practices' - are essential to living a good life of human flourishing.
He defines a practice as "any coherent and complex form of socially established cooperative human activity through which goods internal to that form of activity [worthwhile for their own sake] are realized in the course of trying to achieve those standards of excellence which are appropriate to, and partially definitive of, that form of activity"
Harry, you have nailed it.
Whats up with these philosophers using such big words that nobody understands. Why not simply say "be part of and do something every day and never stop"
That was great. I fought to build mine. But I was doing it with no plans. Harry you use far less wood than I did.
Loved it, start to finish.
Thanks for posting Dave - enjoyed watching it.
Harry and I have a lot of the same tastes. To bad there is a large pond between us.
Thanks Dave .....I am still admiring your bench! Harry
I just finished making this pole lathe. It's awesome! Thanks for the tutorial!
"Tomcat, coming through"
Great video Harry thanks! I just got studio space and I'm going to put these plans to work!
+Kirby Franklin Grreat - good luck!
Just discovered your videos, what a joy they are to watch! Your presentation style is nicely paced, engaging, informative and beautifully recorded with great sound and excellent lighting. Thank you very much!
Thanks you - i enjoy making them and passing on the knowledge.
It's 730am in the states and as soon as I get some sunshine I'm building your lathe. This is by far the easiest setup I've seen and I'm so excited. I've been making yarn drop spindles for my sister's yarn shop, having to use dowel rods is a buzz kill for me, can't wait to turn some truly hand crafted pieces of art. Thank you so much for your channel!
Thanks Judy.
@@harryrogers no no thank you. I finished mine around noon yesterday but it started raining on me, and I don't have the bungee yet. I'm excited to test it out!
@@harryrogers oh a quick question, how long should the treadle be? Mine is about 8' long. I was hoping that the extra length might give more rotations. Any input?
@@judycharvey5790 hi it might take a bit of pressure on your feet.
@@harryrogers You we're 100% correct. I cut it off at about 6' and so far have made a goblet. Again thank you for making one of my fantasies come true.
Great job!
Thanks for sharing your experience.
I love so mutch this old style lathe and to learn this tecniques!
Thank you Harry.
Greetings, Dario.
Great job Harry, Shows what you can do with a small amount of material, a little time and knowing how to do it! All that counts is that it works! Looks like your wood is a full 2" X 4 " instead of 1 3/4" X 3 1/2". I think we are getting cheated! LOL! take care.
***** Yes - sometimes here its an eighth below...but a quarter below is pushing it!
Great design and excellent explanations. Much lighter than my current pole lathe for demonstrations. I'll be making several conversions. Thanks!
Thanks and I am pleased that is helpful - I do find it easier to carry around than my solid oak lathe!
Thanks Harry. I've been looking for clear and simple plans for a bungy lathe. This is very helpful.
Great
Genius. I have always wanted to learn to turn wood, but with the limitation of space for a power version, plus the cost I have been missing out on this wonderful skill. So, this summer I am planning to build one of these pole lathes and get learning. Being from north east Kent we have turners that demo at the English Festival each year, so maybe I’ll pop along and see what I can learn. Thanks for your efforts in putting this together and making it easy to follow and highly enjoyable. Careful or your cat will be wanting royalties!
Perhaps you should pop along to the Kent Bodgers...it's a very active group of green woodworkers. See Bodgers.org.uk
Harry, thanks I’ll do that. Exciting.
thank you for showing plans on your pole lathe i have improved on the the lay out of it a bit and i think i got something useful out of your youtube video very helpfull will try and get some time to put it up on you for other people to use maybe i not see one yet.
Harry please get a larger space to work in .
Your videos are inspirational and I am off to my shed to get busy 😊
im not one for safely sallys, but using that chop saw on the ground with no space made me wince.
Also does the cat have to be ginger? i have a black cat will it still work?
That's pretty cool! Thanks for sharing.
You are the first I saw to use the bungie. It looks like it really tightens-up the space.
Perhaps one of you will figure out how to make a besslar wheel to power it, a micro- hydro turbine, a radiant energy powered motor, or a water fueled motor.
Thanks so much for this! So useful and really well filmed :)
Thanks Evie, Happy Christmas to you.
@@harryrogers merry Christmas to you too ;)!
Congratulations ! It's impressive, i will make my own, thank you
I always enjoy the great content, thank you! 😀👍
Awesome. Thank you so much for sharing.
Well done! Even a layman like me mite be able to make one!
Thanks
I am sure Angelo
Excellent video. I would prefer using green timber ash or something but that is only my preference and anyway your design could be adjusted.
I am of the age where I grew up with feet and inches and I do not think in metric
Thanks again Harry
Hi - yes I built my first one with green oak and still use it a lot......I am inperial at heart because like you I grew up with the 12x table and 240 pennies to a pound!
+Harry Rogers I am with you both. I like feet, ins, bushels, pecks, gills and £ s and d. I remember the tables in school and the chanting of them, it was good teaching in those days, it set me up for life.
Another great video!
Almost screamed "NOOOOO! STOP!!!" as the guard for the saw rubbed the inside of his thigh.
A also screamed stop for two reasons one he said 4x2 rather than 2x4 crazy
As well as the chop saw
I did enjoy this video, Thank you
I rather like metric though.
Everything looks 2,54 times larger when you put it in centimeter...
On a more serious note:
Thank you for this video. I'm a re-enactor who tries taking his real-life job along for the weekend, and I made a very heavy, very bulky pole lathe for that. (Among other things. I basically have my complete workshop in a modern and a medieval version)
Unfortunately, as all joints were friction based, and it has been assembled and taken apart many times over the years, there are now very few original pieces left.
This one does not seem to have to be completely taken apart to be moved in my trailer, so I hope it will last me a bit longer than the previous one.
Class! Thank you for sharing.
Great instructional video for a great pole lath & after all the versions of a pole lathe that I have researched on u tube, this one is by far the best engineered one for me to build. One question though. How long a chair leg can one turn before the lath bed starts to flex ? Will it be possible to turn a shaker chair leg ( new yankee workshop ) approx 48” long on the lathe ?
Thanks for all the hard work you have passed along.
Regards.
Richard.
Hi Richard...that will be a challenge, I have done it but I used a steady...hole in plank of wood around chair leg clamped to lathe base, to reduce flex.
Harry pleeeeassse...safety first! Adequate space for circular saws, safety glasses when using a bandsaw and pillar drill. Never had an injury? There's always a first time! Otherwise great videos, and thank you 🤗
That was a very good video thanks
Richard Schaffling You are welcome..thanks Richard
On the cranks, would adding something like tee-nuts, prevent wear. I'm conscious that where the threads port through the wood, that they will chew it away. Fixing them on the inside and the outside of the crank poppet should prevent future erosion and play in the crank.
Yes thats a good idea, and you will see that on my other lathe I have done just that, but its not essential as the wear on the wood is slow.
Great tutorial! Can you use regular turning tools on a pole Lathe? I ask because I have a nice set of lathe tools but no lathe yet. I've always intended to buy one, but I don't have enough $$ yet and use a small drill powered DYI one for tool handles and small items. I got interested in the pole lathe because of being able to use it outside. I also love building and unfortunately, I have no room in the shop for one. It would have been nice to turn on a pole lathe in the wartrh of my shop this winter!
You can get going with those...yes.
Suggest please an example of how to think as a woodsman using salvaged wood from pallets and standing dead wood as a material source how that a woodsman was able to feel in conjunction with the lathe chuck center/ lathe bed how to select the height of where to drill the leg pieces and length of respective leg pieces to make a folding portable equipment(not mathematics these guys had a feeling for everything) and have a stable base for relative to my height and respective weight of whole logs or log pieces. I am tired now but when I was still out in the woods I know (probably because of the unknown toxic air conditions) that I wasn't fully able to wrap my thoughts around how to get a stable base for uneven terrain and create a horizontal level bed within what I could envision for my design.
Harry, the junk scavenger. That's funny that with the adage for UK that you dont have to fight there to properly make use of good materials despite desperate shortages of Real materials here due to stupid corrupt consumerism having infiltrated.
Great build, nicely done! Love the adjustable height feature! P.S.: are you sure that's a cat? Looks more like a CAMERA HOG to me!
Very interesting and looks simple to build! Can't you please put some pdf plans?
Thank you!
You will find something similar with dimensions in Mike Abbott's book on Greenwood Work.
Just to add further detail in the film description
Thank you
That was great bro...
Thankyou. We built a pole lathe (though without a power saw or any prior experience, I wouldn't call it rapid build). Any recommendations on what to treat the wood with if it's going to be left out in the garden?
Perhaps some teak or linseed oil...well done with the build.
Hi Harry,i want to make one,but i do not have the prepared timber. I have a six foot log of field oak. It was laying on the ground for a year or just over,i have it of the ground now & stripped from its bark. The bark was very hard to get off,so yes it is still in great shape. I was wondering if you have any links on how to build a lathe straight from the log please?
Hi Mike Abbott probably covers this in one of his books.
@@harryrogers Ah ok,yes i hardly see any of the topic on youtube. I would even swap my vintage electric lathe for a go0d treadle lathe.
Hi Harry just found your video's. They are brilliant very informative with every aspect of each project. Do you own a tool shop you have tools for everything. Brilliant keep on filming.
Thanks Jim.
Mr Rogers, as I was watching your construction of your lathe, I was wondering if your design might allow for a flywheel mechanism with a heavy outer rim of some sort to be added to augment the efficiency of its operation. If placed below the center of gravity, it would aid in the overall stability of the lathe as well.
You could add a flywheel and it would work a little like Leonardo Da Vinci's lathe..........Stuart King has posted a film about this on TH-cam that might interest you!
Harry Rogers I wasn't aware that Da Vinci had done that. Did he invent the flywheel as well?
@@mrtadreamer Realizing that this is a very old comment but… how would a flywheel help when the action reverses constantly?
new subscriber here . love the video . do you have a video on how the rope works a picture of the foot peddle construction and the other end of the rope to show what makes it spring back ?
+grizz270 There is one on making a treadle unit - thanks
you don't need to cut the recess on the short leg if you swap the other leg to the other side......makes it stronger
Hi harry I am working out a list of materials for the lathe. I cannot find the poles you refer too as "metal studding". Could you send me a comment on what it may also be called. I am trying to advance my skills as an apprentice carpenter.
Very cool design as well.
Hi try mild steel threaded bar, or long bolts...threaded br is the most likely - good luck
Since the tool rest is more or less fixed, you won’t be able to do bowls on this lathe! Correct?
Yes correct...you could adapt it for small bowls, though most people like a heavy rigid frame for bowl turning.
What is the distance from the end of the bed to the holes for the small legs please?
sorry if i missed you saying it in the video, but could you tell my the bed height at the tallest setting please? I'm around 6' 5" so i need to figure out if your dimensions will work out nice enough for me.
+oberlater Probably too late to answer this but the height of the lathe is not critical. As you are so tall though, you could always make the uprights a couple of inches (5cm) longer.
wow, very nice! did you get any of the kids to try it out? :)
Yes - I think around 60 had a go and some did very well with it! so hopefully may encourage a few more budding woodworkers.
hi. haw old is that vice.i found one when i was out metal detecting. i had to stop skip digging.and picking things off the streets as my house was full of stuff what people chuck out.i got some cherry wood from a skip 10 years ago that was a nice find.
I bought that vice new....unusual for me! about 40 years ago and the bench was my dads
ive never seen one before till today after your cool video. ive cleaned the vice and its on my bench now and works well.its good what you find with a metal detector.
Thanks for a great video. What diameter are the bolts used.
+Padraic Leonard I think they were M8
Have you a plan available for this lathe ? I would love to build one.
Thank You!! Is it chicken cage, the standing next to you?
Thanks for the video Harry! I've enjoyed watching a lot of your stuff! I am a little baffled though. I can't for the life of me figure out how you are screwing the poppet (sp?) together. I see you screw the two 4 inch length pieces to the 16 in length piece, then you proceed to screw the 12 in piece right on top of the 4 in pieces. but it looks like you use the same spots for the screws. How are you managing to screw 2 layers of 2.5 in screws in the same spot across 3 pieces of wood only 1.5 inches thick?! I'm looking to build something like this and am trying to gather a materials list and make sure I have the process down and I just couldn't figure that one out.
Forrest Burks Hi Forrest the screws are slightly off set so not quite the same holes.
That was about the only thing I thought it could possible be, just wanted to check before I went insane drilling screws into screws. Thanks a lot!
Forrest Burks great...good luck
Is this heavy or stable enough to do bowls? At least not too big ones? Thanks so much for posting this.
Ok for small ones, but really you need more mass, hence proper bowl lathes.
@@harryrogers Thanks SO MUCH for getting back to me so quickly! I'm hoping to get something put together here in the next few weeks so my husband and I can begin learning this craft. Wish we could be in the UK to come to some of your events!
I posted this then tried to look for more info about what makes a lathe a bowl lathe, and a quick search isn't turning up anything really except a little in the electric lathe department. If you have a moment could you recommend where I can get more information on building a bowl lathe? Does Mike Abbott's book cover that? I can order that book if it would help. Thanks so much, again. Actually I'm in the middle of watching a series of videos with Sharif Adams by Zed Outdoors--that might answer it
@@sharonrad3317 That sounds very promising...I don't think Mike's books will go into great detail....I know Living Wood does not. You can probably work it out from pictures and TH-cam shots. I turn a bowl in one of my films and there are plenty of shots of Bodgers doing so in others. Rgds Harry
@@harryrogers Thanks again!
I'm building a pole lathe, and I have no clue what tools I should buy, I'm looking for basic tools for basic projects, and I live in the USA, and can't find any pole lathe told online, any help would be greatly appreciated
take a look at woodland craft supplies in the UK......similar shaped tools will work
Harry Rogers Thank you so much for the quick reply! One more question, instead of using a bungee or a pole, could you use a counter wight like a sand bag?
Zachary Tarbell some spring back helps, so probably not!
Harry Rogers would normal lathe tools work?
Zachary Tarbell Yes - you could start with those, and then look around for a deep gouge......I have posted a film on Using a Pole Lathe and chisels to use etc.
Great video Thanks, how did you attach the bungee uprights? are they removable? what size bungee cord?
Cheers
Hi - I used 6mm bungee cord which is fine for turning chair legs. the uprights are secured by bolts so that they can be easily removed for transportation. Thanks for your comment Harry
Big respect! Thank you for giving me the means and method to build my own Bungee pole lathe. I have carved a wooden rolling pin from a fallen Rowan branch using just a Surform and half round rasp. It was fun and end result pleasing enough, for a beginner, but awkward to do and so now I really appreciate the many benefits of a Shavehorse and Pole lathe. I have begun on the Shavehorse build and soon the Pole Lathe thanks to your excellent video.
I just wondered in the closing footage you have cord tied around the two poppets similarly - what was the purpose of that please?
Hi Barry...that is great...the cord between the poppets is a safety thing...if the wood flies off the lathe it's travel will be halted by the bungee cord hitting that cord, thus protecting any spectators in front of the lathe. Best wishes Harry
Given your experience may I ask how long you can make the lathe bed?
Hi I did once make an extension to turn 4 ft back chair legs and it worked but was tricky as the wood whipped around a bit...a shorter bed is stiffer and turning shorter lengths like standard chair legs is easier.
Sound! Thank you.
what angle do u cut the tool rest to and any ideas for a benchtop no power tool lathe for people short on space.
michael houghton Fairly steep....something like 45 degrees will do it...its not critical. If space is tight fix a bungee to the ceiling and have a smaller foot pedal perhaps.
Harry Rogers thank you and tight for space is an understatement. thanks though
michael houghton I know the feeling I do not have a lot of space!
Would build one for me In flat pack and I could just bolt together?
Run2the Woods Hi I think Sean Hellman Woodwright designs might do one for you - he is very skilled. Regards Harry
thanks - respect! 8-)
How do you power this lath?
Hi with your foot. You can see me using one in the woodworking playlist. Rgds Harry
What do you keep in the cage?
Hi Jack - that is a spare chicken home when cleaning out their main home.....we have such a fox problem I cannot risk the birds being attacked or scared !
What holds the tool rest in position?
Its just balanced on the two ledges........I have tried securing it with a bit of bungee - i.e. like a large rubber band, and for spacers I have used offcuts of wood. Harry
What was the overall cost ?
+Jack Murphy Sorry Jack I can't remember
I wish you would show how to actually set it up to run it.
Jason Timmermans Jason - I have also posted a film on fine tuning and running a pole lathe
I'll look for it, thanks
Jason Timmermans th-cam.com/video/WI0ckUwAxiA/w-d-xo.html
Thank you Harry
What the h. is a POPPET?
Where's the pole?
I didn't know Britts measure lumber with our measurements...
You guys got those measurements from the Brits. Now the Brits generally use metric and a little bit of imperial, but for some reason the U.S. still insists on having almost everything in imperial and Fahrenheit and the dates backwards from the rest of the planet. :D
Oh sorry,i have other bits of wo0d i can make the legs out of.
Noice one
Please NEVER EVER use a chop saw in such a cramped place.
as with most americans they don't like to build most anything and you seem to like to build and try things that have value in life.
+calvinfbrown - Well that's just plain wrong and ignorant. During the Victorian and Edwardian era most of the innovations in tool making came from America to Great Britain, not the other way around. As for contemporary Americans, we build all types of things and have many famous experts and master craftsmen. I'm not sure where you got the idea that we don't like to build things but it's totally false.
Really not bad for an amateur, loved that handsome Tom cat passing by not giving a hoot about your doing...
Now, no disrespect to you or the British, but you must be the most confused people on the planet: you adopted the metric system but still using inches and foot dimensions, you travel with cars in Km. on speed and Mile signs on the road to tell the distance.
It will be nice to adapt to one system and also, it's about time that the British will stop driving on the WRONG side of the road, so much easier on the right side, like most of the world, heh...
Being a Canadian, I know it seems confusing using both metric and imperial but you get used to it. As for right hand drive cars (driving on the left side of the road), studies have shown that countries that drive on the left have fewer accidents per capita per year than we do. It apparently has to do with your dominant eye being inline with opposing traffic. At the end of the day, though, its nothing to be smug about :p
As someone who lived in Europe and US and experienced both systems, I can live with one just fine, I just think it's rather confusing to use both at the same time as I described in my comment before and if I'm not mistaken, since I visited Canada, not sure what you have to add, you're using Metric only and you look like a young man that can adapt easily to either one but, using both at the same time it's rather Insane, if I may add!
I'm not saying living with both metric and imperial is better, just that you can do it pretty easily. canada is officially metric but we still use imperial for construction (some new tradesmen are starting to use metric but it'll be a few generations before that happens), height and weight for people and a huge portion of our population use imperial for speed, distance and temperature - remember that a huge segment of our population are the baby boomers, who predate the change to metric. So they and their kids (the echo boom, my gen) use both. Ask anyone over 15 their weight and they'll use pounds, not kilos. Same for height. Most of us can convert (our doctors and govt use metric) but I'm talking what the people use.
Hope that clears it up for ya
Canada, nice country and nice people, thanks.
ronin4711 we love our neighbours to the south, too.
"I like inches"
unsubscribed
childish
I know, Right? Inches? What an offensive thing to say!!! I'm sure you will be sorely missed.
I live in a metric country. Been metric nearly 4 decades. But I still use inches. What am I going to do? Lumber still come in inches instead of metric.
Lol.
Luna,
Your loss . Oh, well I just found his channel and subbed it, so I guess I am subbing you :-)
Man...... you have to take note of how you smack your mouth.
You keep smacking your tounge. It becomes tedious trying to follow you while the elephant in the room is irritating the heck out of you.
(Not just me... mate)
Отличный станок, но очень большой.
On razbirayetsya dlya transportirovki, chto tak zhe khorosho.