Maple stock picked out for my long-bed lathe project

 

The miniature Windsors are assembled. I took a break from final sanding the little chairs and dug a bunch of 8/4 maple out of my pile of left over extras from earlier projects. I found enough maple in the pile to cause me to change my mind about using ash for the lathe. I am just shy of enough 8/4 for the entire assembly. So I decided to use some 5/4 maple, which I will  laminate together to make the feet on the vertical posts at each end of the lathe, and the sliding poppet that will be the tail-stock. I will continue to post pictures as I work my way through the project. Lynch used glued-up 2x10's, and 2x8's for his lathe stock which he thicknessed to 3 inches. My stock is going to end up a shade under two inches in thickness after I clean it up. So I am going to alter Lynch's plans a bit as I go along. Stay tuned. STB