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James C asked:


I’ve been looking to purchase a new wood lathe, but there seems to be a very limited selection of them at places like the Home Depot or Canadian Tire. I’m not looking to pay $1000 for an industrial class lathe, but I am looking for something a little more than the limited selection offered locally. Any suggestions? I am willing to order it online.

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Aaron P asked:


I turned a tool handle out of green maple, not the best choice but it was mostly for practice, but it came out nice and i’d like to avoid checking as it dries if possible.

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wackynutcracker asked:


The pulleys have no sharp edges and the belt is not too tight.

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allstar10 asked:


I don’t have $3,000 to spend on a good lathe!

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CJP asked:


I really want to buy the 8×12 metalworking lathe that Harbor Freight sells for a couple of projects I want to do. However, I’m having a hard time justifying the initial cost just for some of my personal uses.

Does anyone know of, or have experience with, making some metal objects with a lathe that I can sell and make up for the cost? Any websites, books, etc…. where I can get some ideas?

Thanks!

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shooter90 asked:


I want to make my own drumsticks, but don’t know where to get started (i.e. what chisels to use, etc.). If anyone knows how to turn drumsticks on a lathe or a site that could help me that would be greatly appreciated.

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sculptorjmbudka asked:


I have an old craftsman lathe. This center would be going into the tailstock side. I kinda feel like I need a live center. But I seem to remember that my school’s lathe had a tailstock center with the four teeth on it, and I cant find a live center with four teeth. Am I missing something? Thanks all.

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Kay Kay asked:


I recently bought a wood lathe and have done some projects on it. I’ve made several pairs of nunchucks and candle holders and other little things, but I can’t think of anything else simple to make. Also what’s the piece called that you need to make bowls with, a chuck?

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Kay Kay asked:


My dad bought a lathe awhile go for me at a garage sale (it was only $60 dollars). So it works good, but can’t do anything fancy and doesn’t have a chuck. I have done a few simple projects on it, a candle holder (that I can’t light), large spindles and nunchucks. Anyways, does anyone have any ideas for other projects, possibly something that could be given as a birthday or christmas gift?

Metal Lathe Discussions

This is the second section about the types of metal lathes avaliable for your metal working projects.

You can find might variations of lathes within the metalworking field. You will feel that some variations are not really that obvious, and other are more to a niche area. For example, a centering lathe is a double head machine where the work stays fixed and the heads move towards the workpiece and machines a center drill hole in every end. The appearing workpiece might then be used between centers for another operation. The usage of the term metal lathe might as well measured to some extent outdated these days, plastics and other composite materials are in huge use and with appropriate modifications, the same principles and methods might further be applied to their workholding machining as used for metal.

Capstan lathe

The fresh name for a capstan lathe used in workholding industry is a ram-style turret lathe. A capstan lathe is a manufacturing machine, which combines the features of the basic lathe along with a capstan style tailstock.

Turret lathe

A turret lathe is a manufacturing machine, which to all appearances is alike as the capstan, any how the turret slides straightly on the bed rather than being fixed.

Combination lathe

A combination lathe might introduce drilling or milling operations into the plan of the lathe. These machines uses the carriage and topslide as the x and y axis of the machine.

CNC lathe

CNC lathes are now fast replacing the older production lathes such as multispindle, etc) due to their simple method of setting and operation. They are intended to use modern carbide tooling and fully uses modern processes.