William,
Your machine work looks excellent and you have come up with some extremely innovative solutions. Would the piece you turned in your drill press also fit in your Atlas lathe?
There was a famous English woodworker who died in the 1990s named Jim Kingshot. If you ever get a chance to get his woodworking videos (he made four) by all means watch them. There is one in particular on using molding planes that starts off with him showing a grandfather clock he made completely with hand saws and hand planes. You have to see it to believe it.
david