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chunkey monkey:
Thanks for your replies ,my lathe is the new powermatic , so capacity for anything I can throw at it!
 I have 35" mulberry and olive ash ,monkey puzzle , lime , laburnum all big stuff! so it seems sacrilege to waste it!
I am new to woodturning ,just a couple of weeks in  to be honest but have a nice collection of timber ready to go,
Sold a lot of my workshop machinery as I am retiring and setting myself up well for woodturning projects
Loving the last two weeks ,wood flying everywhere !  but evolution Colossus jaws sorted that out!
 My woodturning friends wonder why I need to go so big so soon ,  well that's just me!,
Thanks for all your kind help !!!
   

Tim Pettigrew:
I use the original smaller capacity BowlSaver (not the Max 3) quite successfully on my first small lathe which was a RecordPower DML 305-VS rated at ½ HP with a 12" swing over the bed.  Excellent piece of kit. I now use it on my Nova lathe. You can see what happened when things didn't quite go according to plan in this You Tube video where it gave me a bit of a surprise!
https://youtu.be/O00orgdqlAc

Tim

Paul Hannaby:
I used to have a McNaughton and a Woodcut 2 bladed version but ended up selling both and buying the Woodcut Maxi3 instead. My theory was that would cover both the others and really it has.

If you are selling bowls and working with large blanks a bowl coring tool will pay for itself pretty quickly in terms of number of bowls produced/sold.

Most of these tools recommend at least a 1hp motor but you can get away with less on smaller cores and lighter cuts!

Bear in mind that the number of useful cores you can get is often dictated by the depth of the blank rather than the diameter.

chunkey monkey:
Very interesting ,this is a great forum, gives me a good indication ,,,go for maxi 3 if I can raise some more money ,you can't beat buying good gear first and once!  cheers Ash

Lazurus:
Another vote for the woodcut Max 3, I use mine on a VB36 and as above it will pay for itself in the additional bowls you can produce - a nice set of nested bowls alway look good. Steve above has some very nice images of the nested bowls he produced. Not an every day tool but well worth it when you need it.

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