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Project Cresting Lathe ?

Started by Slewfoot62, April 09, 2010, 08:36:00 PM

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Slewfoot62

Visited the local sewing machine shop and the nice lady gave me a sewing machine with a working motor and a nice control pedal. Brought it home and took it apart. Motor spins great and speed can be varied. Now any ideas on mounting and creating a workable cresting lathe?.Pictures would be very helpful. Thanks.

Shakes.602

Get Ya a Collet for the Motor Shaft to Arrow Shaft Connection. Some use Medical Tubing, I just Bought the Collet. Believe "Lost Nation" Sells them. I mounted Mine on a 1 x 4, and just made sure the Shaft was Level. You can use a Carpeted V-Block, Drawer Rollers, or whatever. Use your Imagination, just make SURE the Shaft doesnt Chatter at a Reasonable Painting Speed!!
 HAVE FUN!!! I Did!!
"Carpe Cedar" Seize the Arrow!
"Life doesn't get Simpler; it gets Shorter and Turns in Smaller Circles." Dean Torges
"Faith is to Prayer what the Feather is to the Arrow" Thomas Morrow
"Ah Think They Should Outlaw Them Thar Crossbows" A Hunting Pal

Broken Arrows

Do a search on google cresting machine home made.
Take the long way around.
Dwyer Endeavor 58" 64@29"
Super Shrew 58" 60@28"
Thunder Child 58" 60@28"
Toelke Pika 56" 60@29"

Encino Man

Fox Archery "Red Fox"
53# @ 28" 64" longbow
Browning "Safari II"
44# @ 28" 60" Recurve

Shakes.602

Great Job on that Crester!!  :clapper:    :clapper:    :clapper:    :archer2:
"Carpe Cedar" Seize the Arrow!
"Life doesn't get Simpler; it gets Shorter and Turns in Smaller Circles." Dean Torges
"Faith is to Prayer what the Feather is to the Arrow" Thomas Morrow
"Ah Think They Should Outlaw Them Thar Crossbows" A Hunting Pal

lpcjon2

Nice crester and is that lead bars on the corner of your bench.Bucktails and jigs?
Some people live an entire lifetime and wonder if they have ever made a
difference in the world, but the Marines don't have that problem.
—President Ronald Reagan

sendero25

I don't know...hard to trust someone whose work bench is that neat and tidy...
(Just kidding Encino Man, looks great!)
I have a hard time finding my arrow building stuff when it is mixed up with my reloading stuff and fly tying stuff!  
My bench is a mess!
"I'm not very smart but I can lift heavy things"

"I'm not as smart as I look"

quotes by my good friend Clay Miller from Valentine, TX

Van/TX

Old Singer.  Bought wife a new one.  She hates sewing.  Been cheaper just buying a comercial crester  :knothead:  ...Van
Retired USAF (1966 - 1989)
Retired DoD Civilian (1989 - 2009)
And drawing Social Security!
I love this country ;-)

Encino Man

QuoteGreat Job on that Crester!!    
Thank you Shaker.602, had lots of fun doing it.

 
QuoteNice crester and is that lead bars on the corner of your bench.Bucktails and jigs?
Yep lpcjon2, about 157 lbs worth of pure lead. Later to be turned into .54 caliber round balls.

 
QuoteI don't know...hard to trust someone whose work bench is that neat and tidy...
(Just kidding Encino Man, looks great!)
I have a hard time finding my arrow building stuff when it is mixed up with my reloading stuff and fly tying stuff!
My bench is a mess!
Too funny sendero25. All I have to say is don't turn around. Might get snake bit on the other side. Ah, the magic of the camera.
Fox Archery "Red Fox"
53# @ 28" 64" longbow
Browning "Safari II"
44# @ 28" 60" Recurve

Killdeer

Those bars caught my eye right away! Lord only knows how many .54 balls I've cast out on my balcony.   :thumbsup:

Killdeer   :biglaugh:
Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroke;
And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.

~Longfellow

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