#video on #Grandpa-Amu #bootstrapping a pedal-driven wood #lathe, including a three-jaw chuck consisting of three bolts in a piece of wood with captive nuts. Also demonstrates bow drill, the kind of workbench you sit on, etc. Rather than using a pole for the return spring he cuts a piece from a bicycle inner tube.
Robin Wood is the #lathe bowlturner who revived the craft in the UK after seeing photos of a guy who died in 01958.
George Lailey was the last English bowlturner who used a pole #lathe before Robin Wood revived the craft.