In this video I turn a simple offcut into a custom wooden lid for a ceramic jar using my old metal lathe. I start by laying ...

November 5, 2011 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google Instructables user Random_Canadian turned a power drill and miscellaneous other power tool parts into a ...

[McKGyver] needed a few parts manufactured. Instead of going the normal route – finding friends with machine tools or paying a machine shop, he improvised a rudimentary metal lathe. The finished ...

Don't have a lathe you can work metal on? The next best thing is just watching it happen. Here's one cutting a spiral pattern into a workpiece, much like the texture on metal stairs used to increase ...

Bring your material and drawings of your project to Floor 4 of Sears think[box]. Speak with a member of the Sears think[box] staff and they will help you prepare your files, get set up, instruct you ...

Every metalworker knows the struggle of dealing with chips and metal shavings that invade every nook and cranny of the lathe.

If you’re planning to make a metalworking lathe out of a CNC milling machine, you probably don’t expect getting a position sensor to work to be your biggest challenge. Nevertheless, this was [Anthony ...