Dennis Turk
Stainless
- Joined
- Jul 8, 2007
- Location
- McMinnville Oregon
Hi
Thought I would share with you guys two lathes I picked up over the last year.
The first one is a very early Star peddle lathes complete with all peddle parts and tooling. The lathe came to me for just the cost of freight from TX. I live in Oregon. Seams the owner was moving to Spain and could not take the lathe with him so needed to find a good home for it. He had seen some of my restorations on Tony's site and emailed me and asked if I wonted the lathe. Well that did not take long to make a decision on I can tell you that. The owner must have spent the better part of a week building crates and packaging the dismantled lathe. We moved it by Forward Air at a cost of around $350 bucks. Not a bad deal. The only thing I had to agree to was the lathe could not be broken up for resale and that I would restore it and display for others to see.
The Barnes lathe I got this summer up in Washington state. I am now the third owner of this fine number 4 1/2. The original owner gave the lathe to the father of the fellow I got the lathe from. In the 51 years the father and his son never used the lathe just kept it covered in there nice dry wood shop. Cancer was forcing the liquidation of all the tools and toys this fellow had and he put the Barnes up on Craig's list in Seattle and one of the Dalton guys up there spotted it and called me. The listing came out on Friday I think and I was up there Saturday morning to pick up the lathe. I felt the asking price of $2000 for such a fine example of a Barnes was more than fair. The lathe came with all the peddle parts and seat. Also a full set of change gears, tool post, face plate, dog drive plate, the wood working rest, bowel making plate for the spindle as well as two three pound coffee cans full of old forged tool bits and another 20 pound box of misc cutters arbors and such. I also got the steady rest but no follower rest---bummer. The lathe is in just great shape with nothing broken or badly worn.
Turk
Thought I would share with you guys two lathes I picked up over the last year.
The first one is a very early Star peddle lathes complete with all peddle parts and tooling. The lathe came to me for just the cost of freight from TX. I live in Oregon. Seams the owner was moving to Spain and could not take the lathe with him so needed to find a good home for it. He had seen some of my restorations on Tony's site and emailed me and asked if I wonted the lathe. Well that did not take long to make a decision on I can tell you that. The owner must have spent the better part of a week building crates and packaging the dismantled lathe. We moved it by Forward Air at a cost of around $350 bucks. Not a bad deal. The only thing I had to agree to was the lathe could not be broken up for resale and that I would restore it and display for others to see.
The Barnes lathe I got this summer up in Washington state. I am now the third owner of this fine number 4 1/2. The original owner gave the lathe to the father of the fellow I got the lathe from. In the 51 years the father and his son never used the lathe just kept it covered in there nice dry wood shop. Cancer was forcing the liquidation of all the tools and toys this fellow had and he put the Barnes up on Craig's list in Seattle and one of the Dalton guys up there spotted it and called me. The listing came out on Friday I think and I was up there Saturday morning to pick up the lathe. I felt the asking price of $2000 for such a fine example of a Barnes was more than fair. The lathe came with all the peddle parts and seat. Also a full set of change gears, tool post, face plate, dog drive plate, the wood working rest, bowel making plate for the spindle as well as two three pound coffee cans full of old forged tool bits and another 20 pound box of misc cutters arbors and such. I also got the steady rest but no follower rest---bummer. The lathe is in just great shape with nothing broken or badly worn.
Turk