Homemade Lathe

by Lathe on May.02, 2009, under Lathe Videos

I designed and built this lathe to be easily serviceable, accurate, and inexpensive. The part shown at the end of the video was made on this lathe.

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Not just another homemade lathe, this one is huge Turning a big piece of wood with an old and...
Homemade Treadle Wood Lathe This is my homemade Treadle Wood Lathe. No Electricity needed....

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13 comments for this entry:

ynnebbenny
May 2nd, 2009 on 5:08 am
How did you make the chuck?
levogiro
May 2nd, 2009 on 5:08 am
really cool!! awesome!…. i tought (you write it like that?? sorry.. my english is almost all learned through internet… and i rarely had oportunity to test it :-S) that it would be a lot more expensive… the cool thing is… that with that lathe you could build a more complex one! or expand that same one!… i’ve been thinking in doing something like that (or a milling machine) for a long time… but i feel a little overwelmed by the fact that I have no experience in machining…
laurenandrewr
May 2nd, 2009 on 5:08 am
About $200 plus a 1/3 horse motor that you can find anywhere (garage sale – maybe?).
levogiro
May 2nd, 2009 on 5:08 am
I’ve quite the same question that lenx82. How much did it cost? Any sugestions on how to learn machining at home?
thx!
lenx82
May 2nd, 2009 on 5:08 am
This is really great!! I would love to build smth like this.
How much did you roughly spend to construct this?
Naddycat
May 2nd, 2009 on 5:08 am
Wow, nice!
roninoneone
May 2nd, 2009 on 5:08 am
Thnaks for the info!
laurenandrewr
May 2nd, 2009 on 5:08 am
You would have to change pulleys to change speed. The pulley on the motor would be the easiest to change. I selected the pulley sizes to optimize turning speed. It is a compromise between a setting for heavy cuts and high finish speeds. Most cutting operations can be done with a two inch motor pulley and an eight inch spindle pulley. The lathe bed is a 30″ piece of 8″ X 3/16″ steel channel.
roninoneone
May 2nd, 2009 on 5:08 am
Very good ideea, nice finish! Can you adjust the speed of the lathe? From what is the table made of? I mean the table on what the cross-slide table is.
laurenandrewr
May 2nd, 2009 on 5:08 am
I had no instructions. I just experimented until I came up with this. If you want dimmesions, I can give you them.
laurenandrewr
May 2nd, 2009 on 5:08 am
To achieve the off-center or eccentric (the piece is basically a cam). The blank is centered in the four-jaw chuck using a dial indicator mounted in the tool holder(the tool holder was cut from a solid block of steel and can be seen mounted to the cross-slide vise). Then the blank is shifted over by loosening one jaw and tightening the opposite jaw until the blank slides over the desired amount as indicated on the dial indicator still mounted in the tool holder. The lathe is accurate to .001″
VeryTucker
May 2nd, 2009 on 5:08 am
hi mr.rood
pudidotdk
May 2nd, 2009 on 5:08 am
That is very nice!
How expensive, and after which instructions?

I noticed the thing in the end looked offcenter, how did you achieve this?