A salutary tale
In my 40's I dreamed of making big projects on a huge lathe
In my 50's I achieved my dream but slowly came to the realisation that hefting the weight of the logs surrounding those big projects wasn't quite the fun I had envisaged.
In my 60's I began to notice that the big lathe's tailstock was putting on weight and had to stay in situ, even when it was in the way of me hollowing the, now reduced in size, projects.
Now. in my 70's, I make smaller, hopefully more elegant, pieces and dream of having a 'Normal' sized lathe.
Brian