There may be few cases where the maxim that “you get what you pay for” rings true, than a lathe. The less you spend on a lathe, the closer you get to a lathe-shaped object and the further from ...

KURE, Hiroshima Prefecture--A massive lathe used to precision shape the main gun barrels of Japan’s mighty World War II battleship Yamato is now on public display at the Kure Maritime Museum here.

The Optoform 40 is the world’s most competitively priced ultra-precision lathe for manufacturing contact lenses or intra-ocular lenses. It was designed to provide ultra smooth motion ...