The first time I saw someone turning a small scoop in one piece of wood, I was intrigued, but I didn't like the complicated, nuts-and-bolts-and plywood clamp for holding the scoop at right angles to the handle axis. So I bumbled my way through simpler ways to hold the piece before arriving at the one I use now.
I thought I'd do this in one video, but I'd forgotten how many stages of evolution my chucking method went through. I'll try to get Part 2 up in a few days.
Soon I will have had my Laguna lathe for a full year. There are things I like and things I don't. I'll do a review next month.
If you have come over here from Oregon Old Timer
https://youtube.com/c/oregonoldtimer
you probably know the story. I made a couple of projects on a wood lathe in junior high school wood shop in the 1950s. I didn't touch a lathe again until July last year. I'd watched a few woodturning videos and got the bug. The prices of new lathes stopped me, but I found a lathe like the one I'd used in junior high at a sale and bought it for $200. That, and a few tools, got me started.
After I had enough experience to have a good idea of what I wanted to turn and what equipment I'd need to do that, I bought a Laguna Revo 12/16 with the bed extension that can also mount low on the left side to allow turning larger bowls. I expect this lathe to serve for the rest of my turning life.
Woodturning is an adventure in learning and creating. It's great fun, even for a beginner.
My other channel:
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My Etsy shop:
https://www.etsy.com/shop/EricRushArt
I post photos of woodturning projects from time to time on my website:
https://www.ericrush.com