At least one person asked about the pole lathe in the introdictions thread. Well, that's good enough excuse for me !
I hope you weren't expecting the hand hewn from a tree thing of great beauty sort ! It was made in an enthusiastic hurry to get turning, so with plenty of compromises and that intention all bodgers have of making a proper one one day. The main constraint was it had to be dead easy to break down and chuck in the car. It also had to be made out of wood from my FIL's old window frames and some stuff from the skip at work.
So here are most of the bits, in transportation mode.
Together, the legs fit into a wide V notch to stop them racking too much. This is in the Great Barn at Wimpole Hall. You see the other compromise, the "goal posts" and bungee. Though I have used a genuine pole to provide the spring return, they are really quite a pain. You need a fresh cut sapling - it dries out and loses it's spring over time. You can't fix it down on hard standing, or indoors, nor will they let us knock pegs into the archeologically sensitive areas of the site outside. And finally, it gets in the way of allowing visitors to get close enough to see what you're doing without inevitably bashing one on the head with the pole !
Me doing some suburban garden bodging,
This is what I was making. It is part of the back of a chair. Also a lot of skew chisel practice