Considered a specialty power tool, a wood lathe is typically found in a woodturner’s or a furniture-maker’s shop. It’s used ...

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 ...

We’ve seen quite a few scratch built lathes here at Hackaday ... it will spin the other. Since the tools only cut in one direction, the user has to keep letting the pressure off when the ...