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263355 Mick Dowling <spacelysprocket@b...> 2017‑09‑21 Foot powered lathe.
Chaps

Video just sent to me. Chinese foot powered lathe. There's something
different about this lathe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfpo3MasyKQ&sns=em

Or, http://tinyurl.com/y7gkzsrr

Mick Dowling
Melbourne
Member, Hand Tool Preservation Association of Australia Inc.
263356 <gtgrouch@r...> 2017‑09‑21 Re: Foot powered lathe.
Very interesting: skilled craftsman with good use of wood.

I like this foot-powered design!

Thanks for sharing, 

Gary Katsanis
Albion, New York, USA
(temporarily located in southern Pennsylvania, since my daughter had an accident
with a gas-powered lawn apprentice)
- --- Mick Dowling  wrote: 

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Chaps

Video just sent to me. Chinese foot powered lathe. There's something
different about this lathe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfpo3MasyKQ&sns=em

Or, http://tinyurl.com/y7gkzsrr

Mick Dowling
Melbourne
Member, Hand Tool Preservation Association of Australia Inc.



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263357 galoot@l... 2017‑09‑21 Re: Foot powered lathe.
Quoting Mick Dowling :

> Chaps
>
> Video just sent to me. Chinese foot powered lathe. There's
something
> different about this lathe.
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfpo3MasyKQ&sns=em
>
> Or, http://tinyurl.com/y7gkzsrr
>
I'm not sure it's the same video but Robin wood had a link to a video 
with the same sort of "bicycle" drive a couple years ago.  I 
particularly liked the sit blank on chuck then pressure from chest 
workholding..

Esther
263360 Claudio DeLorenzi <claudio@d...> 2017‑09‑22 Re: Foot powered lathe.
I just got back from China on Wed night.  Some amazing craftsmen in China-
Not only woodworking.  In the smaller villages i found several people
making a living doing handicraft work.  Watched various people working in
their very small owner-operated work shops- (no bigger than a closet
really) carving wood and stone, calligraphy and art, basket weaving, toy
making, box making, wooden tea pot supports, and one guy was binding
various sizes of personal notebooks with leather covers. Dozens of
different crafts.   These people were all pretty much still doing things
the old ways, one at a time, by hand. Most of the craftspeople were older,
I noticed.  I think the young have all gone to the big cities, where the
economy is booming.  People change jobs all the time in the city,
apparently, because fast growing companies are always looking for
employees-- companies keep offering better wages/ benefit packages hoping
to retain their workers and attract more talent.

 Fascinating country and people, although be warned that Chinese government
agencies block certain American companies such as Google.  (Basically
nothing from Google works, or works so slowly as to be useless- search,
email, etc,  just don't work in China).  Unfortunately, none of the
craftspeople I met spoke any English, and my Mandarin is limited to asking
"how much for this" and "Where is the washroom"
 The people were very friendly and helpful, even in the big cities- people
went out of their way to help foreigners. We had a great experience
travelling through Beijing, Tianjin, and Shanghai.  Young people are all
connected to the net, but only to Chinese versions of social media (the
government has blocked almost all foreign social media apps) and older
people don't even use mobile phones (that I noticed anyways), and it's
unlikely we will ever get any Chinese Galoots involved in our group, mainly
because of the language restrictions.
Cheers from Waterloo
Claudio
263385 Mick Dowling <spacelysprocket@b...> 2017‑09‑29 Re: Foot powered lathe.
Hi Esther, galoots.

What I found most interesting in the video is that the axis of the lathe is
north south, rather than what I assume is the universal east west axis.

I don't woodturn, so I can't comment on the benefits one way or the other.

It's almost as if the maker had heard of the concept of the lathe, and
having not seen an example, made the axis north south.

Mick Dowling
Melbourne
Member, Hand Tool Preservation Association of Australia Inc.

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