The recommendation is that your lathe be at elbow height when standing or sitting. I've never been able to get comfortable without the frame of the table hitting the top of my legs. There isn't much room between my elbows and the tops of my legs when sitting.
Since your elbows are different heights when sitting and standing, you need to be able to adjust the table or the chair/stool. Just cutting the legs won't fix your problem.
I finally figured out that if I put the lathe on a taller table and use a drafting stool, my legs aren't at right angles so I have more room for them under the table. The lathe is higher when I am standing, but that puts it closer to my old eyes.
So, for me, higher is better.
--- In , Jerry Durand
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> Lathe should be about elbow height...more or less to personal taste.
>
> On 02/05/2013 05:47 PM, Ebner Heating Air Conditioning Co. wrote:
> > Message
> >
> > I'm getting a heavy bench set up to accept my lathe. After bolting a
> > heavy set of casters that were sized to accept the 400 pound weight I
> > ended up with a bench that is to high to comfortably work while
> > sitting on a stool. My question would be is there a rule of thumb
> > 'height wise" that I should shoot for? I don't want to cut the legs
> > off so that the bench ends up to low.
> >
> > Thanks Mike
> >
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