Step into the world of woodworking and learn how to design and craft wooden chair legs using a lathe machine. This process ...

The Russian lathe accident remains a chilling reminder of the potential dangers associated with industrial machinery.

Let’s say you’ve recently bought a lathe and set it up in your shop ... For this demo on my small bench-top machine, I’m using 1-¼” diameter stock, 5″ long. For a large floor-standing ...

At the 2009 Ghana Maker Faire, [Pat Delany] met a young carpentry student that saved for three months to buy a cheap Chinese wood plane. He was confounded by this distribution of resources, so ...

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 ...

This lathe was made by Colchester Machine tools, in Colchester, Essex in 1941 as a part of the War effort, many thousands of similar machines were made by all machine tool manufacturers during the ...