Tools then project

      Having left the states, leaving behind a lot of tools sand selling my beloved Sheldon Lathe and Wells Index Mill - I found myself emoty, nothing to do or make, or in the words of my very good friend - 'Dink with'.

Moping around, looking at my yellow FZR 600R, I know it needs a full service, battery and the fuel system draining, my heart was not into it, the tooless garage moking me,

     My gorgeous wife, then, from the blue, bought me this:

     A Boxford Model A, in my favourite - SAE - it runs sweet as a nut, and will be levelled this week. Joy of joys - now all i need is the steady rests and to pick up a 4-jaw chuck at some point, but there are ways around that.

     Now my FZR is looking more tempting, a fettle over the winter months, prehaps a new exhaust too, all this getting me back into the stride ready for my new project when i find it. Until then - this gets a fettle: 

     It was a write of and rebuild from scratch, and was my first real bike restoration / rebuild. Can never part with it, and polish it occasionally, emotionally attached as i always do to my mechanical stuff.