The Secret Society of Lathe Trolls

Hey y’all,

Can’t speak more highly of Mike, went to his camp 3 or so years ago and now have 4 lathes, all from Mike and with great support through the years.

Highly recommend his lathe cutting camp for beginners!

Hey, just messaged you on Facebook!

Thanks for the help and starting points! Mike, I’ll definitely be hitting you up for that when it’s ready! In the meantime, I’ll probably start experimenting on one of my lathes soon and see if I can rig something up. Jccc, do you have any photos of how you mount your suction? Wouldn't it be bad to ...

What's up Trolls! I've been embossing on 3 presto 6N's for a year and a half now, and have recently purchased a couple of Nautilus stereo heads. I'm quite comfortable embossing, but mostly do 12" these days and I tend to get varying results from turntable to turntable, so I wanted to delve into diam...

Hey Andy, So I think I actually may have finally solved it after much headache, fingers crossed. I swapped the knives in each lathe with each other and found that the problem was actually with the lathe itself, so then when trying to keep the feed knob flush, I noticed the knife was not making full ...

Hey Folks! Fairly new here to the society, but I’ve been embossing for about year now. I now have two presto 6n’s, but I’ve run into an issue that I thought I had resolved and wanted to see if I could get some better insight into what’s going on here. So at some point, the knife to the feedscrew sta...