A few examples of some of the stuff I've made on my ancient lathe, an el cheapo Chinese machine bought over 30 years ago,
and still going strong(ish), though it does vibrate a bit now! When I was a schoolboy, back in the middle of the last century,
it was always my ambition, in woodwork classes, to get onto a lathe, but somehow it never happened. I did quite well academically
(maths and physics were my best subjects), and got promoted into a higher academic stream as a result, which meant giving up
woodwork in the year when pupils were introduced to the lathe (the higher academic streams didn't do woodwork at that school!).
Many years later, I finally invested in the cheap Chinese lathe and taught myself to turn chunks of wood, mostly using scrapers!.
More recently, I joined a local woodturning club to improve my skills and expand into tools other than the crude scraper.

Recently, having grown to appreciate the benefits of variable-speed lathes as used in the woodturning club, I finally got around
to replacing my ancient and rather wobbly Chinese lathe with a new Record lathe with variable speed, and wonderful it is to be able
to change the speed by rotating a small knob, rather than wrestling with belts! The new lathe is used for the spalted ash platter onwards.