Wood-turning lathes are essential for creating any roughly cylindrical wooden object from pens to large table legs, and ...

When someone says ‘wood lathe’ the average person would think of a lathe used for turning pieces of wood into ornate shapes. But what if that lathe was also made of wood. Would that be … ...

[Tim Nummy] used his cheap, Chinese, bench mini-lathe to make a non-terrible mailbox flag holder (YouTube video, embedded below). Tim posts videos on his channel about garage hobby projects, many ...

The tools used include a miter box, grinding wheel, coping saw, drill, and a Dremel tool, of course. Without this mini lathe, all of these tiny wood pieces would have to be carved by hand.