WeirdAlisMySpiritUserName
136780
1978
35
Jul 3, 2022 4:25 AM
WeirdAlisMySpiritUserName
136780
1978
35
stewie67
Lot of effort for a bed pan.
TiptronicS
So.. wtf is it?
whompsauce
Been holding off trying this but just met some blacksmiths that I think can help me with turning hooks
ImTheGodDamnLochNessMonster
Did someone say tree fiddy
inscrutablehorse
God damn Loch Ness monster! I ain't givin' you no tree fiddy!
Turboslacker
Bigblackdick69
Chefpnut
Neat. What is it?
Bystandr
He makes a foot pedal driven lathe to produce a wooden bowl.
putcleverusernamehere
vikk3
That birch looks a bit too green to make a bowl. Going to crack so badly.
BorkasonBork
Yes, but easy to work with wet wood.
flarflarf
maybe. Thats the down side of green woodwork, you just gotta accept a certain amount of spoilage.
juffowup00
Boss level hipster
procrastinatingagain
I couldn't do that with with an electric lathe.
Durahl
You'd be surprised about all the things YOU could do with modern / higher quality tools compared to doing it by hand / vintage tools.
procrastinatingagain
I actually have amazing tools that I inherited but I really don't have the time or space to use them.
merthyrboy
I could barely do that with a credit card and an Etsy account
archangelselect
IDownvoteKhaby
Totally thought of that when I saw this.
komododave
Yes! They can!
fredhoffman1968
600 dollars please
chimpo64
fuckin a, dude!
t4d3jkVillain
F
VyvyanBasterd77
That would make an epic cereal bowl
Sokonomi
That turned out pretty lovely despite the simplicity of that lathe. Brilliant craft.
thisisausernamelikeanyothersbutthisonesmellsweird
PerpetualExhaustion
Okay, but what is it?
Baskaa
Some people will do anything to keep from just washing the damn bowl.
highhiedyin
Looks like a quaich
frischcode
Sully0811
still better than gov't issue 1/2 ply.
ChelVanin
I never once pooped at school for that reason.
DeltaBladeX
With audio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpXtAhiKHBE
baldewok
Hoiloidl
Also this one: https://youtu.be/TBb9O-aW4zI
sumelar
Holy shit a pedal powered lathe?
butthurtnevergetsbetter
A lot used to be pedal-powered, because there was nothing else to make things spin consistently.
flarflarf
yeah, its called a pole lathe
initforthespecs
LazyBunnyKiera
People pay out the ass for stuff that's classically "hand made" without modern machines. That bowl probably sells for $250+.
Mydogismybestman
Useful bro.
IAmGodot
Look around, can you form some sort of rudimentary lathe?
BlackfoxBane
turbotricycle
I love that movie.
RichardPicture
lovehandlesmessiah
Get off the thread, Guy!
captainfakeypants
Alexander, you're my advisor - Advise me!!!
Sayagain
Minors not minors!!!
CarlottaVonSprockett
Miners* not minors
Sayagain
You lost me
lovehandlesmessiah
The topic comes up when they get to the mine on the planet, attended by childlike-sized alien “miners”. Hilarity ensues.
poopslave
Wish I could upvote twice. That's off the charts cool in my book.
saturatedcottonballs
Thank goodness for ceramics. This took do much skill and time to make. Beautiful work though.
DoktorWeasel
Better version https://imgur.com/iGYkPTi.gif
Thetingwitdating
Ceramic wooden be the same
saturatedcottonballs
I see what you did there
spitfires2000
I never knew rope-driven-tree-lathes were a thing.
charondaboatman
Water, wind and muscle.
JayEnfield
Bow-lathes which ran on apprentice-muscle were around something like 5000 years ago.
tr26
I once used a cool water-powered one, and a treadle-powered table saw, but this one takes the cake!
spitfires2000
And it's so simple.
buttcreambandit
Well now you do
CitizenPrime
Artisanal hipster
tankerofquetzals
A castle in France is being built from scratch using medieval techniques, you'll be delighted to see the sophistication of the hand tools!
tankerofquetzals
https://www.arte.tv/en/videos/082723-000-A/guedelon-rebuilding-the-past/
s4ltinecr4cker
"Video cannot be played from your location" :( any idea where i need to set my vpn?
tankerofquetzals
It's Arte, try France or Germany if you have the option, UK if not.
tankerofquetzals
It's a highbrow Franco-German TV channel that can broadcast in the same evening an Estonian version of Dostoievski's Idiot, a documentary
uitSCHOT
The very first lathes were lathes like this. Very simple design but really effective
flarflarf
they're called pole lathes
TheRealGeorgeMcfly
DIY spring pole lathe. With adorable woodwright Roy Underhill. www.popularwoodworking.com/article/roy-underhills-double-spring-pole-lathe/
TheRealGeorgeMcfly
https://www.popularwoodworking.com/article/roy-underhills-double-spring-pole-lathe/ clickable link for the lazy
snafu999
AKA "Bodger's lathes" - bodging was the craft of making spindles and chair legs etc. out in the woods with green coppice wood
butthurtnevergetsbetter
Every tool we have has a simpler precursor. Go back 500 years, and most of it already existed, except no motors and softer metals.
volch1tsa
Thanks for showing us the ropes
baldewok
This kind of lathe was probably known to the ancient Greeks and Egyptians.
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GeekyRafiki
I'm not sure but I think rivers were a thing in the 16th century.
ICantRememberHowItEndsButYourMothersAWhore
A woman’s vagina is a 3D printer
SociallyAwkwardCanadianMoose
Technically it's the uterus...
Millsslslsls
Laborers! not joking.
RubyPorto
A saw. Clay. A saw and some metal files. Respectively.
Radkal
Exactly
butthurtnevergetsbetter
Who would have thought simple precursors are in fact very simple?
spitfires2000
At some point in time they will say this about us too, when we're all cyborgs ;-)
TheMadOnion
They'll laugh and talk in disbelief about our non-mechanical penises.
spitfires2000
The expansion rate can be amazing with non-mechanical, fluid driven penises tho!
crabpeopledefenseforce
I'm alredy one, i have an implanted defibrilator !
Feardain
Technically we already have cyborgs, some prosthetic arms, are operated by an analog computer.
AShartInTheWind
Wait...not everyone is a cyborg?
spitfires2000
Not yet. (standard answer, can't tell you the truth. They are watching this)
farfie
My mom has an insulin pump, she's technically a cyborg.
AShartInTheWind
I was never programmed to keep this a secret. Is it possible that my coding is faulty or unauthorized?
basicisaac
What was that wrapping be removed in the beginning? Tree bark or some kind of shipping label? Thought I saw a barcode.
mroranges
....its birch bark
flarflarf
birch bark
imreallyjusthereforthecats
Birch code
MrBinkiBobo
I did a search for Birch code and found nothing. Can you elaborate?
GoliathSkittles
Can't tell if joking or not
Sayagain
Son of a birch I'm in.
MrBinkiBobo
Not joking. I’m actually curious.
GoliathSkittles
Ah, it was a pun, the type of wood he is using is Birch, and the guy was making a pun based on bar code. Though personally I would have >
JemFayCrystal
Don't woodwork without full breathing mask that stuff gets in lung ? perm damage. Same for vac-blowing dust out computers.
Baltzdelirium
Solid advice.
flarflarf
the lathe in the OP is a hand-powered tool and as such the bar for safety is far, far lower.
Baltzdelirium
I guess that's fair in respects to the potential harm.. but I'd prefer people be safe.
flarflarf
the guy in the OP is being safe. Green woodwook such as this does not produce dust small enough to enter your lungs
flarflarf
green woodwork - which i assume this is, since a pole lathe is gonna be real hard to use on dry wood - generates basically no dust.
CrisprCAS
So don't soak your lungs in wood?
MrBinkiBobo
That’s a good alternative to a worn out joke. + 1
butthurtnevergetsbetter
Also don't work lathes without safety goggles. No, wearing normal glasses is not equivalent.
Flyingwigs
No long sleeves, beards or braids either. Gloves are even questionable in my opinion with a metalworking lathe.
DamnTheAdmiralty
you missed the part where this is is a spring pole lathe? It turns at <100 rpm with almost no torque
DamnTheAdmiralty
Spring pole lathes turn < 100 rpm. There is 0 safety issue here Mom.
butthurtnevergetsbetter
How does the rpm matter? You're still scraping off thousands of small particles. It only takes one to fuck up an eye.
DamnTheAdmiralty
Maby you should keep your "safety" advice to yourself if you don't know why RPM's matter.
TheRicM
I used to get a lot of allergies/asthma when dusting my house. After the pandemic, I discovered wearing a mask helps eliminate that
shimmerkitten
So were you wearing a mask accidentally while dusting in your own house, to discover that? I'm quite curious now ?
TheRicM
*never
TheRicM
Nah it was more like. Hmm, there’s a mask right there, let me try it while I dust. It worked! Before I ever really had a mask around
shimmerkitten
That's great! Congrats on finding a solution ?
TheRicM
Thanks! Yeah it helps a ton!