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I was in almost the exact same position as you - apart from the fact that its more like 35 years! Also, Im on a very tight budget! The axminster / perform beastie with the swivelling head was on special offer recently...so i took the plunge. I have to say Im happy wiith the lathe...until I get...

Gary, I had long believed your observation to be true. I Having done some more photographic reaseach I am now utterly convinced that they are one and the same. The Record offering has their stamp and "SHEFFIELD" on the outer rim, its the only difference I can see. If I'm right (and I will...

Wow I LOVE this place already! Decades of wisdom and experience that you just can't read in any number of books - and all for free! I am REALLY grateful for your time and effort chaps - thanks. The grey wheel is pretty new...I dont think its a dressing problem, tho I will get one of those nifty...

Phil, are you trying to sharpen your turning tools on that wet wheel? If so, would have thought it just about impossible. This is the simple setup I use for lathe tools. CHJ - I guess in my reading I thought wet ones were better as they kept the steel cool and stopped it losing its edge due...

Horst, thanks for the constructive comments - the foot is that large as I used an expanding chuck...and being a newbie...getting the hole the right siez took some time. Of course that amount of time also made it twice as wide as it needed to be! Having said that, I kinda like it that way, but...

I have just bought the axminster perform grinder...http://www.axminster.co.uk/recno/4/product-Perform-CCWSG-Whetstone-Grinder-21739.htm Looking at the pic, the wet wheel goes clockwise (ie AWAY from those notches at the high end of the trough) This seems to me to mean that to sharpen a gouge...

Thanks for the resounding welcome chaps! and YES, it IS my first ever "thing" off the lathe...I had a few practise runs spindle-wise making things that MIGHT become handles for something one day...I was getting used to the feel, the sounds...the amount of shavings!!!! etc...then I took the...

Thanks for the encouragement...I LIKE the "features" in the wood....the flaws I meant were the man-made ones: a couple of gouges one the underside and a "ding" or two where I got a nasty "catch"...If I had turned them out, instead of sanding over them, I'd have been showing my first ever...

I am very new to all of this...my first chuck is a Dakota scroll chuck from Rutlands (XT700). It was the best value I could find...and it works for me! I don't know any better of course, as I have nothing to compare, but iy seems to do what it says on the tin...feels pretty solid and works...

I have been working up to this for a LONG time - I'm on a budget and strapped for time...I guess this is nothing to all of you experienced turners...but I'm over the moon about it! Its the first ever complete and (almost) useful thing I have ever made on a lathe! Its from a lump of ash, an...