Nice work. Boy is hickory a great wood! I've not turned elm before. Are those 48" handles or 60"?? I've never used the full capacity of my Powermatic 3520--I have the 18" extension that lets you turn over 48" between centers, but I'm primarily a bowl turner. Great job-keep it up!!
The handles are 40" I just copied what I already had. I have a Yates American lathe. Im guessing about 1950-1960 on age. I can do about 48" between centers.
The lathe came out of a school shop. It is 3 phase I am running it with a teco variable frequency drive. Its the small box on the wall in the upper left of the last photo. This lets me use single phase power and gives me additional speed control soft start braking and a bunch of other cool options. I can go from about 50 rpm to 6000.
Thanks, I bought 2 of the lathes and a bandsaw off a neighbor. They were on the way to the scrapyard. Some paint and a variable frequency drive (they are 3 phase) and they are back in service.