Recent content by Jamie Maxwell

This lathe has sold to a gunsmith in Crooked Creek Alberta. He wanted a smaller lathe for other jobs. It sold for $3750 because he took the custom drawer sets that I had built for the stand.

It was Home Shop Machinist. I buy the anthologies so I do not have a date or year. A Simple Indexing Attachment for your lathe. Don Titus author.

I posted some pictures above. The portion that is inside the spindle is just slit in two places with a bolt pulled wedge plug. The wedge plug has hex in case the whole affair needs a socket attached to aid untorqueing.The outside is 15/16 dia for a 5C collet. It is from a HSM article. I can look...

This lathe did not come with a taper attachment. The amazing thing is that the SB9 and the SM9 must have been really very similar in the bedways, carriage, cross slide etc. I had this steady rest for years and never realized that it was a SB. As you can see from the photo is fits just fine. The...

The follow rest is made from a I ordered a GH 1440W from Modern Tool. I would have loved a SM1124 or 1324. We had 1124s at the high school I taught at. Still going strong.

I guess I should edit the post. The text at the beginning is a bit mangled. I am picking up a new lathe in the first week of June in Edmonton and I am selling the SM 9x24 which i have had for a long time.