Motorcycle diary of Joy Dutta

I find myself very much hooked to woodturning by now, so I decided to have a better lathe. Thanks to craigslist I sold off my earlier central machinery lathe within 24 hours of posting an ad.

I was deciding between the Jet and Rikon mini lathes and visited the San Carlos Woodcraft today morning with Bhaskar. The shop guy recommended the Rikon for its better feature set over the Jet, and a $50 discount on the Rikon made them both equally priced. They didn’t have the Rikon in stock, but booked one for me at the Dublin Woodcraft. We drove for 40 min to go there and found it to be a bigger store. There was also a free demo of sharpening woodturning chisels by a local artisan, and it was a perfect tutorial for both of us at that moment.

Here is the Rikon model I got.

Came home with a lighter wallet but lots of anticipation to turn bunches of spindles and possibly bowls in the coming weekends. Keep checking my woodturning gallery often.

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