[Ohio]

My name is Ohio (yeah, really) and I'm pretty interested in metal spinning. I am way better at it today than I was three days ago when I started.

(Actually, I tried spinning last spring and sucked at it, so I'm already showing progress. It's always good to be less crappy at something you like doing.)

I can weld---they hold, but they look terrible. I do quite a bit of woodworking and woodturning, and have done some aluminum casting. Also, I took a blacksmithing class for my birthday because fire and hitting things with hammers are two of my favorite things.

To metal spin, I fabricated the tool rest and turned the mandresl and follower bloacks, and made or bought various spinning tools to use on my Rikon mini-lathe. I'm getting the feeling that that I made need a proper spinning lathe or at least a beefed up modified wood lathe, preferably a smallish one like a Karle.

So far I have destroyed some pewter, copper, and aluminum discs of various sizes. Totally crushed them. It's a pretty impressive stack of failure sitting on my workbench. I would post a picture but that would be bragging.

Thanks and I look forward to learning.