It’s common wisdom that the lathe is the essential machine tool, and the only one that can make copies of itself. While we won’t argue the primacy of the lathe in the machine shop, this ...

[Makercise] has built a nice oil fired foundry already so it’s off to the next book, Gingery 2, is the metal lathe. The Gingery ... Seeing someone using a scraper made from an old file on ...

In this woodworking video I use a woodturning lathe to turn a piece of aluminum into an ornate box with walnut lid.

Lathes are machines for turning and forming materials. This is usually done by removing material to form a shape, or drilling and cutting to create threads. The lathe is driven by a motor that ...

Instead of spinning the tools, a lathe will spin the stock material to a high rpm and then remove the material using a static tool. Unless a more complex system of live tooling or synchronous machine ...