My workshop is a colourful place! The inspiration came from the cafe at a National Trust house! It houses quite a collection of tools and machinery.
As you step inside there’s a wheeled drawerpack holding all the tools commonly used for bowl and spindle work, and enough abrasive to keep your fingernails trimmed. it can be wheeled around between the two lathes as needed.
Then there’s my ‘organ pipes’ – a rack holding the tools that are not used so often. You only need 6 tools. The rest are expensive!
Then you meet the big lathe. It’s a Nova 3000 – getting old these days but still going strong. It has a bed extension so I can turn spindles up to 4 feet long, an outrigger so I can do bowls up to 29 inch diameter, and a variable speed motor.
Here is the dust control station. The dustbin with two pipes in its lid functions as a vortex to drop the dust out of the incoming airstream, it is then fed to the outside world. It’s OK till winter – it also sucks the warm air out of the workshop!
The baby lathe, surrounded by dust hoses, is mainly used for teaching and demonstrations. It seems to get heavier each time I put it in the car.
This last picture captures the bandsaw, the belt sander and the sharpening station, although since they posed for this picture the sharpener has been upgraded.