Convert Wood Lathe from hand held tooling

[steve123]

The 900mm length was just showing the capacity of the lathe , sorry I did not make that clearer. I want to retain the ability to machine that sort of length between centres, Newel posts, Spindles etc. right down to pens (a good seller). I would like to turn bowls, goblets and other chuck held items as well. Basically do all the things I used to be able to do ...

Hi,
Why not just set up a two guide rail cnc system running 900-1000 mm to the front or back of the lathe, with a two rail cross slide joined too it,with a router bolted to the cross slide, cutter facing wood ,which could then take care of your spindle work plus outside of bowls.then mount the router again on the cross slide but at a slight angle facing towards the chuck for your inside bowl work providing the radius of the bowl it big enough to clear the router body or you could play with the angles you mount it at.