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, ...

Instead of going the normal route – finding friends with machine tools or paying a machine shop, he improvised a rudimentary metal lathe. The finished couplers were concentric to 0.005″.

These efficient and cost-effective precision tools are designed to optimize the machine’s parameters. Originally developed for manufacturing of precision parts in the watch industry, Swiss-type CNC ...

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 ...

Examples include a wood lathe, metal lathe, CNC lathe, CNC turning center, CNC machining center, and multi-axis machine tool. Lathes and turning centers are designed with a variety of specifications.

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 ...