Most recently, he was inspired by a fly-wheel from an old factory. He used it to build this foot powered wood lathe. It works something like a foot powered sewing machine. There’s a lever for ...

The Foot Powered (Treadle) Lathe woodworking video by Chop With Chris is a time lapse of the construction of a foot powered lathe using an antique corn auger flywheel. I use only hand tools ...

The Foot Powered Lathe - Teaser woodworking video shows the initial designs in building my foot powered lathe. I followed this video with The Foot Powered (Treadle) Lathe and How To Build A Lathe.