Kewel. Garage-tech. Mind telling us what you plan to plane?

Your link to "lathe" above is broken. Looks cool.

Manual? Still, its all about the CNC retro kit! What brand is it? I hope its not Harbor Freight unless you have a 2nd mill/lathe to rebuild it with. Add a Bridgeport mill and a metal bandsaw and you have a robot factory!

Sorry about the broken link-- now fixed. And, Ernie, I purposely avoided the CNC option: it's such a pleasure to use a machine that doesn't require any fiddling on a keyboard.

Whoa, sorry to even mention that other junk! Very nice.

Steve, fantastic looking device. Yes, tell us what you plan to make. Maybe start with a clothes pin. Hope you're not like my dad, who decided woodworking was not his bag after he bought a bunch of cool machines. Also, does it have a port to plug in the OpenGene box? I hope they're compatible.

I've been using my cheapie drill press (Delta) as a small-footprint lathe, for turning balsa model rocket parts. It's fun watching stuff take shape as you cut / sand.

If I had more room, I'd get a lathe, so I could turn hardwood parts

C'mon Steve - what are you going to be making with that thing? I have a suggestion: survelliance video cameras - from wood! Very hot.

I s'pose you could turn wood on this lathe, but it would be overkill-- it's designed for metalworking. So far, I've made a replacement part for my video camera so that it mounts to a metric instead of imperial tripod screw and a threaded pipe adapter for my air compressor. In other words, I got the lathe to make those little interstitial widgets..