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made a second pen now, its white oak and black fittings, it fits alot better, no over laps and sticky out bits



so based off last time 100% making/getting the custom holder instead of using the three jaw will help

need to sharpen/reshape those chisels they work but on harder wood they catch almost ended up with a grove carved out of the pen do to that

need to find a hose that my shop vac and hook into that is poseable and a way to clamp it to the table I am working on
with that need to take the little unimat apart and clean up the screws and things, the size of my blanks dont let a small towel rest under them so gotta fix that somehow

and lastly does anyone know where to grab a set of those low/non friction washers I have seen others use on their unimat rebuilds?
the video did not list them in their parts to buy area so figured i would ask here, the carriage is what needs it most, some paint got in the bearing surface?
and now it sticks alot?

You can use your tool post,? did you know that unimat made a tool rest for woodturning?

Google, unimat wood tool rest and look at the images - it is easier to use this tool rest, but I've turned with the tool bit on cross slide and then switched to the tool rest.

Your Oak and Black pen looks great.? I just did the same thing with my Grandson (who will be 12 tomorrow yesterday) on my jet mini lathe; he choose Purple Heart and we also used black pen parts...I think he had fun yesterday and he came over for dinner today and wants to turn a white pen next...?so I will have to find some 3/4 x 3/4 corian or hard surface cut-offs for his next pen.... or buy Holly (wood) blank as he wants it to be white.

I think running a shop vac is way too noisy to be relaxing, a dust collector is slightly less noisy, but still too much noise, so I use a fan behind me, but I turn in our woodshop, and I don't turn in our home, if I were using a lathe in the basement, I would have the shop vac on, but not in the shop.??

Built in danger when turning a pen with a multi jaw chuck, so watch your left hand, there are lots of accessories for turning on normal size wood lathes, and this is the reason I have lathe acquisition condition; but actually Dear Husband bought my Jet Mini wood lathe in 2010, and then we bought the unimat....? They are such fun pieces of equipment.

Collets are the most wonderful additions for wood holding for smaller diameters; I never chased the collets for the Unimat, much easier to have accessories without the "collectors" expense of chasing collets for a unimat - this was the rationalization for the Taig lathe, much easier to buy all the accessories without the collector pricing.

Tamra