While the grizzly stuff is ok, it's cheap and there's alot of issues with the lathe I have currently. Though it's turned well over 250k lures now, the headstock has a bad bearing, the tail stock has always had too much play side to side necessitating a field modification, The tailstock lock is a piece of crap, and more.
You want my honest opinion? Either a 2hp Vega 1553 or a 2hp Oneway if they make a 2hp.
You want to turn those two machines are very well priced and heavy/quality which is going to give you a nice turning without a ton of runout/vibration at the same time having enough power for the duplicator to do it's job.
You want a variable speed on it so you can put a 4" hock of maple on the thing and rough it out to a cylinder then speed it up and hog your shape. You should be able to cut a standard bat in under 2 minutes on that, maybe faster.
Course you want to cut bats the machine you want is Eegore. I'll cut you a bat in less than 40 seconds with almost no sanding
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Originally Posted by pbadad
Scott, through many searches for a lathe I realize the many models available. I have been looking at h/p ratings, reversing motors along with unit weight. I would like to expidite the turning time and see the Vega unit could cut up to 3/8" per side. Thats 3/4" per pass. Seems alot to remove at once. The dupe decription didn't mention hardness of woods. Do you have any suggestions for a full size lathe that won't break the bank?
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