Learning to turn? Selected from dozens,
here is the very best book you can buy
Thought to have been introduced during the late 1940s but out of production by 1952, this Coronet wood lathe broke with company tradition in having a flat-topped bed in cast-iron. With a centre height of 6.75 inches, and a capacity between centres of 32 inches, it was ideally sized for the amateur. Unfortunately, the No. 2 Morse taper ball-bearing supported headstock spindle carried only a 3-step, V-belt drive pulley - so limiting the speed range and, no doubt, compromising the usefulness of the 17.5-inch diameter capacity of the bed's gap. Typical of its era, the lathe was well constructed from heavy castings and of proportions decent enough to absorb vibration - although the size of the gap was rather generous and would, on a metal lathe, have weakened the structure unduly. Substantially built for a wood lathe, the tailstock carried a No. 2 Morse taper socket.