Posted by y b n on December 25, 2003 at 20:05:27:
In Reply to: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: stolen Roland Meinl tuba posted by Agreed on December 25, 2003 at 18:55:33:
Several years ago, I traded my "really fine" lathe for a "utility" lathe. The stuff that I could do on my "really fine" lathe, I simply wasn't interested in doing...
...I'm certainly not interested in (whether I'd do a great job or not) spending (in reality, considering a typical one-job "learning curve") a half-day to a full day making a valve cap for a Chinese tuba.
My "utility" lathe?...just fine for shaving down rotor bearings, mouthpiece work, tubing work, makin' a few tuba valve stems, etc.
Hey, I've got an old long-bedded Craftsman WOOD lathe on which I installed one fixed center and one free center that I geared down super-SUPER low strictly to turn, mark, and straighten trombone slide tubes. Total expense: $50