Beautiful workbench, Jerry-I thought about making one like that, but my wife wanted the Laguna base, so "Happy wife, happy life." Honestly, I think your set-up will be rock solid, as the lathe hardly vibrates at all with that PWM motor. In fact, mine passed the nickel test from 0 to 3500 rpm and back down-very impressive.

If I could offer one piece of advice, consider making a wooden mallet one of your 1st turns (if you don't already have one). You can practice all the tools and the different cuts on a bigger piece, and I am using mine constantly to tap the knock-out bar for a sticky morse taper, to hit the spur drive a few whacks to engage the stock more solidly, things like that.

After spending a couple of days on videos and practicing the different cuts with some square stock poplar based on the Alan Lacer video above, I've got my 1st brush handle of sorts drying and almost finished using the drill chuck, forstner bit and cone center like we talked about.

If you have or plan to have any non-carbide chisels, skews or gouges, I also highly recommend the offset DMT paddle hones to keep them sharp-so easy to use: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002XH4L62/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

At some point, I'm probably going to have to get one of those metal CBN wheels and a jig to mount it on my 1750 rpm motor. I already rolled the edge on a gouge trying to free-hand it. I have found that a dulling tool will quickly tell you it is dull, and increases tear-out and other problems. I look forward to our mutual learning journey, and hope that this thread will help anyone else we can lure down this rabbit hole!