Making a Lathe Test Bar

Making a Lathe Test Bar: "By Jose Rodriguez

Imagine having just purchased your first or
maybe even your second lathe and after lugging
everything into your garage, or as with the majority of
us, down the kitchen steps into our basement shops,
you sit there, sweating, gazing happily at all that new
pretty tooling. You spend all that time recuperating as
you read and re-read your new lathe's instruction book
and marveling at your brand new tool and accessories. "....