🌳Woodturning | Criss Cross Pen Pot | Milliput Filled Cross Spiral Fluted Pen Pot | Router Lathe

My third outing with my old Router Lathe.

I managed to acquire an old 1980’s Router Lathe from my father's workshop. It needed some TLC, a new handle (missing) and also some repairs to a pulley which was heavily cracked. You can still obtain spare parts for this machine on eBay but the range is limited and handles and pulleys are not available of course!

For my third project, I revisited the "fishnet" pattern having read the instructions this time.

I have got a lot of nicely spalted beech which I used for the base material.

You can reverse the drive on the router lathe thus enabling the pattern I sought. Who would have guessed reading the instructions?

The Sears Roebuck Router Crafter looks exactly the same in design as the Trend Router Lathe so I'm suspicious all the parts are interchangeable as its probably the same machine. There is not much in the way of help for the router lathe on Youtube.

I found parts catalogues and instructions for both versions of the equipment online but they read like a 1950’s machine instruction manual. I gave up as the equipment isn’t that complicated, and therefore its use is fairly intuitive. Most importantly only cut left to right, never the other way around.

The only router I have is a Trend T4 Plunge Router which is not ideal for this task, so some improvisation was necessary to mount it properly.

William Hunt woodturning ideas on YouTube. Sears Roebuck Router Crafter and Trend Router Lathe. I used white Milliput in the end.

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