Comments on: CME Handworks Inc

By: tom

tom — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 13:01:54 +0000

Craig,
thanks for the comment. You’ll have to contact CME Handworks if you’re interested in a building plan. all the best.

By: Craig Brain

Craig Brain — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 04:29:14 +0000

I have to second the comment above about selling the plan to build this lathe. I’d also like to point out your customer base will expand even further, since you don’t have to pay international shipping rates for a pdf.

I could never afford to ship one of your lathes to Australia, but I would pay for a pdf, or a print plan. If you sold a printed plan with a few metal components, I’d even be able to afford that!

As is, I could probably build a similar machine from the info and pictures you have supplied, and visit the local metal engineering works to get the metal components, but I’d rather buy from the people who created the design.

By: Will Nettles

Will Nettles — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 18:26:34 +0000

I found your treadle lathe through a note on Kayak Building Forum http://www.kayakforum.com
I think what you’re doing is terrific.
I studied the images on your e-Bay offering, to understand more how it worked, (I’d just made a pump drill and was curious how I might make it go in just one direction. I had assumed that treadle lathes also went back and forth).
I had a thought. What if you sold plans, with descriptions, explanations, etc…. $5 or $10 on your website using Paypal, or a pdf (no overhead or shipping) on Amazon (low hassle, easy purchase).
You already share more than enough information to enable someone with a few skills to copy your design (and for someone with more skill and experience to know that $675 is a bargain).
I find it easy to spend $5-10 for something I’m curious to know more about, and to support the people who did it.
Will
ps In the next week, I’ll try to put some images of my Pump Drill on my Flickr site. I made a frame which makes it safe & dead simple to use (I teach 8th grade science). The design is pretty obvious, and open source. (I am curious to know if adding the frame is unique, and just how old is the pump drill). http://www.flickr.com/photos/willn2/

By: Brian Meeks

Brian Meeks — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 04:04:41 +0000

It is beautiful. Very nice photos. Do you think that a beginner could learn to use a lathe on something like that? Or would it be better to start with a table top lathe and start with smaller projects?

By: Tom Fidgen

Tom Fidgen — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:17:56 +0000

Erica,
If you click on ‘a dedicated sharpening bench’ in the side bar list of topics you’ll find all of the articles from that series.
Thanks and enjoy!

By: Erica Rao

Erica Rao — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 18:15:31 +0000

How can I get ALL the part of the dedicated sharpening bench?

By: Tom Fidgen

Tom Fidgen — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 19:38:09 +0000

Thanks for the comment Bernie-
it’s coming along quite well- still nothing to show but its alot of fun!
sharp tools are key when turning wood at this slower, foot powered speed!
keep well.
Tom

By: Berniesr

Berniesr — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 23:33:49 +0000

Looks really interesting. I will be keen to see how you get in with this. I have never seen a treadle lathe in operation. However my late father in law was a tailor who used a Singer industrial sewing machine. I was always amazed at how quick and smooth that was.

Good luck with it.
Bernie from the Land Dowunder