I don't have a lathe Mauser , I clamped a drill to a cart in my kitchen and chucked the arbor in it with the pot on the arbor . After I got done I used a pad sander clamped the same way to smooth out the arbor impression on the bottom and smoothed the turnings . Not bad for freehand , eh ? I'd like to get a small lathe , but I don't really do much wood working so I have to improvise sometimes . He does the hard part better than I would anyway , and for $6.50 to get that much work done for me is a bargain . I may still buy a craft lathe for turning custom strikers though .