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== Pulleys: how does that work? ==

[[File:Logs.jpg|left|thumb|200x200px]]

[[File:Logs.jpg|left|thumb|200x200px|Logs which will become pulleys]]

[[File:Marked log.jpg|thumb|200x200px]]

[[File:Marked log.jpg|thumb|200x200px|Log on a lathe, turned round and with widths penciled on]]

[[File:Lathe learning.jpg|left|thumb|200x200px]]

[[File:Lathe learning.jpg|left|thumb|200x200px|The lips are too fragile for this beginner]]

[[File:Stack of pulleys.jpg|thumb|301x301px]]

[[File:Stack of pulleys.jpg|thumb|301x301px|Eventual progress. The size varies because I continue on the same price after each mistake]]

Like any hobbyist, I started with the funnest part: pulleys. Window shopping told me the pulleys would add up to at least a hundred bucks so I decided to buy a wood lathe for 200 bucks, get creative about "renting" storage space under a table in a basement, and learn how to turn my own pulleys.<ref>I enjoyed Frank Pain's book "Practical Woodturner", and the genre encourages great videos.</ref> First world problems, you could say. But after some learning, my pulleys came out alright!

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 == Pulleys: how does that work? ==
-[[File:Logs.jpg|left|thumb|200x200px]]
+[[File:Logs.jpg|left|thumb|200x200px|Logs which will become pulleys]]
-[[File:Marked log.jpg|thumb|200x200px]]
+[[File:Marked log.jpg|thumb|200x200px|Log on a lathe, turned round and with widths penciled on]]
-[[File:Lathe learning.jpg|left|thumb|200x200px]]
+[[File:Lathe learning.jpg|left|thumb|200x200px|The lips are too fragile for this beginner]]
-[[File:Stack of pulleys.jpg|thumb|301x301px]]
+[[File:Stack of pulleys.jpg|thumb|301x301px|Eventual progress.  The size varies because I continue on the same price after each mistake]]
 Like any hobbyist, I started with the funnest part: pulleys.  Window shopping told me the pulleys would add up to at least a hundred bucks so I decided to buy a wood lathe for 200 bucks, get creative about "renting" storage space under a table in a basement, and learn how to turn my own pulleys.<ref>I enjoyed Frank Pain's book "Practical Woodturner", and the genre encourages great videos.</ref>  First world problems, you could say.  But after some learning, my pulleys came out alright!