"Daisy" has arrived.... Painted roses VS2 - 1892

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07-04-2014, 05:15 AM

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mjhaess

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Shes a beauty...

07-04-2014, 06:44 AM

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Mariposa

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Pretty, pretty machine!!

07-06-2014, 01:01 PM

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girliegirl

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love it.... just came back on and had to see what you were up toooooo!

07-06-2014, 03:58 PM

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Rodney

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Originally Posted by SteveH

I polished the hand wheel today at lunch!

Here is the hand wheel after polishing next to the fixture I built to hold it in the lathe
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here it is with the tool in place
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Here she is with the wheel back on.
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Nice job on both the fixture and the wheel. Aren't lathes fun? My daughter has a small wood lathe and my old Shopsmith will work as one too. No metal lathe here yet though.
Rodney

07-06-2014, 04:02 PM

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BETTY62

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She is awesome. Thanks for sharing.

07-07-2014, 07:22 AM

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oldsewnsew

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Lathes key in nicely with this stuff. I want to find a small metal working lathe in a barn. I'd have a better chance back east probably. I use a rag wheel to polish with jewelers rouge.

09-17-2014, 08:16 AM

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SteveH

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Well folks the treadle arrived last night. (most of it anyway...)

My mom packed it really well. Two more boxes arriving on Friday with the rest.

LOTS of work going to be needed here.

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09-17-2014, 08:20 AM

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SteveH

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but worth it...

Here she is after the first cleaning pass..

This is the first set of Singer irons like this I have had that have the original goldwork

The Velcro straps are holding it together while the glue sets, the whole front panel could come off the glue was so shot, But she cleaned up really nice.