I have an opportunity to trade something for a lathe.
I already have two but one is a big heavy Hamilton, the other a very old LE Blonde. The Hamilton is a brute. The LE Blonde needs a ton of work to deliver any sort of accuracy as the ways are pretty worn.
The lathe I am going to look at is a Carroll- Jamieson. It’s a cone drive like our LE Blonde and those were last manufactured by “CJ” in 1940, they only built geared models from then on.
To be clear none of these lathes are up to gun smithing tolerances. I just do minute of farm work and the only way I can justify acquiring a third lathe is if it is tighter than my loose horse affairs.
Does anybody have good, bad or indifferent things to say?
Best regards
Three44s