Harbor Freight's mini benchtop metal lathes are a powerful option for at-home machinists. Who manufactures Harbor Freight lathes, and how much do they cost?

For those who aren’t familiar, the Gingery series of books describe how to build an entire machine shop’s worth of bench top tools using ... is the metal lathe. The Gingery books and, really ...

Where most homebrew lathes tend to be the bench top variety and feature cast aluminum parts, [Jornt] went with steel for his build, and a lot of it. The base and bed of the machine are welded from ...