Fancy Float Making Lathe

I was idly watching videos on Utube, as you do, when I came across this one: Making Fishing Floats. The video is a bit long but in it the guy makes himself a little hand cranked lathe with which he makes fishing floats.

He makes floats like the ones pictured in the top row. Had to use a wiki photo so as to not hurt anyone's feelings about copyright so they're not exact in representation. The ones he makes are not painted but varnished.

By the by, I figured I could do something like that and set myself the challenge to not buy a single item to make it, every bit and piece has to come from stuff I've already got. I figured plastic might be a good material for the little lathe. And, since I've been lugging this crate of offcuts that had been "gifted" to me in a previous job I thought it might be a good idea to use some of it.

There's mostly machine grade polycarbonate in there with bits of acrylic thrown in for good measure. I took two likely pieces of polycarbonate to become the bed, the headstock and tailstock. I then cut mating dovetails on the tablesaw and there you have it the beginings of a lathe.

Out of other odds and ends I made feet for the lathe and proceded to shape and bore the headstock and tailstock. So here's the little lathe as it stood friday afternoon when I stoped working on it.