For example, just saw a video of a lathe machining a chess piece. The final product was much smaller than the starting piece. Why do you start with such large pieces of stock for small projects? Wouldn’t it be smarter and more efficient to rough cut using cnc or water jet then finish?
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Properly setting up work holding is a hassle. Saving half a minute on cutting material is not necessarily worth 4 minutes of tapping the piece with a wooden mallet then rotating it until the gauge stops swinging around. Also that implies the presence of at least another van sized 5000$ machine in the shop. A lathe by itself is already a rarity in a garage.
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