In grand maker tradition, [Giertz] listened to her inner MYOG (Make Your Own Gnome) and got a lathe to learn to make her own handles instead of just buying some off the shelf. If you’re less ...

There are several types of lathes and turning centers. Examples include a wood lathe, metal lathe, CNC lathe, CNC turning center, CNC machining center, and multi-axis machine tool. Lathes and turning ...

That is, unless you’ve got the proper tool. We figure [Machine Mechanic] must need to cut a lot of them, as they spent quite a bit of time perfecting this custom lathe attachment to automate the ...

CNC turning is a subtractive manufacturing method (Removal of Material). Contrary to CNC Milling Lathe machining is for circular geometries (stock is commonly a solid/hollow cylinder) but a hexagon or ...

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 ...

Tool blanks are used with lathe tool grinding in order to undercut the tip of a tool to provide relief so that the metal just below the cutting tip does not contact the work. Tool blanks are the form ...