And when you think about it, the ability to cobble together such a machine tool would probably make you ... wrong – we love cast aluminum Gingery lathes too. But there’s something substantial ...

It’s common wisdom that the lathe is the essential machine tool, and the only one that can make copies of itself. While we won’t argue the primacy of the lathe in the machine shop, this ...

Contrary to CNC Milling Lathe machining is for circular geometries (stock is commonly a solid/hollow cylinder) but a hexagon or square can be turned down to a cylinder. Instead of spinning the tools, ...

Ask a carpenter about a lathe and you may well be there ... usually wood or metal, and spinning it while you use tools to carve the surface. It’s used for creating engine parts, furniture ...

The machine rotates the wood and the user uses a variety of chisels to shape the wood by moving the chisels along a tool rest. A metal lathe is like the wood lathe in the type of shapes it can ...