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 ...

STATE FARM HAS THE TOOLS TO GET YOU TO A BETTER STATE. I HAVE HAD THIS WONDERFUL 1887 BARNES NUMBER 4 1/2 FOOT-POWERED, BACK-GEARED SCREW-CUTTING METAL LATHE FOR TWO WEEKS, AND I HAVE THE BOLDNESS ...

It’s an old idea, but you’ll be hard pressed to find anyone with a shop featuring concrete machine tools. Cheap lathes are plentiful on Craigslist, after all. Building a metal lathe from ...

It should be noted that of all the mini tools you can get at Harbor Freight, the 10- and 12-inch benchtop metal lathes are among the most similar to their industrial big brothers. A wide variety ...

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, ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. Lathes are machines for turning and forming materials. This is usually done by removing material to form a shape, or ...