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I’ve been posting recently about renovating the coronet lathe and tools I’ve been given. I now have a selection of tools that are useable and another selection, mostly scrapers, that may be of use in the future. I’m going to get a new parting tool and thought I’d get anything missing from my...

What a fantastic piece of work, the amount of planning ahead of time to design and build something that detailed must have been extensive. To be this skillful after only 4 years is remarkable.

Looks amazing, please do post a photo when it’s all loaded up.

Useful to know, thanks.

Thanks I’ll give that a try

Ah that makes sense, thanks. The lathe is running on its slowest pulley setup though I have just discovered how to get the reduction gearbox working so I can, in future, drop it down another speed. I’ll look for a diamond parting tool or see if I can re-profile one of the old tools into...

Second go at turning, had 20 mins before cooking dinner so grabbed a piece of wood from the firewood store and checked it on the lathe. Very simple bit of turning practice to make a mini mallet. just used a spindle gouge and discovered that sharpening before starting would have been good. After...

Fitted a new drive belt yesterday, a more modern version of the segmented belt. However, the ½" that everyone seems to sell looks to be too big and doesn't sit down into the pulleys well enough and also rubs on the casting below it. Now have to try and find another one that's thinner, does...

You're absolutely right about needing guards. Yesterday I was talking with Derek Pyatt, the guru of Coronet machines and he's going to see if he has one that will fit, or find one from one of his sources.

That does sound like lovely stuff to turn and I have plenty of it to play with in the years to come.

Thanks for all the new replies, much to think about. The lathe has an old ⅞ x 16 thread, I've found taps for between £30-65, will keep an eye out for used on ebay. Hadn't considered that the velcro options would be less accurate, certainly something to consider. I have a jacobs chuck so I...

Thanks, I will do. I have some pieces of hardwood in a pile waiting to play with and I have several ash trees in the wood that need to come down this winter as they’ve succumbed to dieback. This was literally the nearest piece of wood to hand as it was in the kindling pile next to the stove.

We found the wood burner covered in rust at the back of the barn when we bought this place. I cleaned it up and it’s the heating for the workshop when I want to use the place in the winter. I slapped some celotex into the barn walls at this end and boarded over it so it doesn’t take long to...

Oh you could probably hear me laughing from where you are. The workshop is at the back of a barn and generally is full of stuff that needs fixing. A couple of weeks ago I had enough and decoded to do some tidying up. I can now see the surfaces for the first time in about a year and decided to...

It's not much, but it's the first thing I've ever turned. The live centre arrived from Axminster this morning so onto the lathe went a length of scrap 2x2 that was in the box for the wood stove. A half inch spindle gouge was picked up and I just practiced what I'd read in the book and from...

Thanks every one for such helpful answers. Looking at the velcro that Charnwood sell, it looks like regular self adhesive backed hook velcro and I've remembered I have some of that in the workshop. Only 2" wide but a few strips of that should cover a 20cm disk and then I just have to buy some...

Just spent a while cleaning old sandpaper off a sanding disk for the new-to-me lathe. Looks like it had been glued on with regular wood glue and took a long soak and judicious use of a chisel to clean all the paper and glue off. I've given it a clean with a wire brush and some fine emery and it...

Great, I'll message you as there's a couple of other parts I'd like to get too.

thanks very much, they can be put aside and be used as a blank for when I need a different tool.

First go at sharpening some tools yesterday. CBN wheels make it so much easier and you barely have to worry about overheating the steel. Also, would anyone know what these tools are for? The don't match the standard profile of tools I've seen in use so far.