The restoration of this 1933 French hand-cranked grinder from Val D'or is a captivating process! Initially, it seemed like a ...

A lathe wouldn't work, so we did the job on a CNC milling machine equipped with an old lathe headstock. After mounting the headstock on the two-axis miller, we fabricated a drive system and made a ...

The lathe is known as the King of Machine Tools for a reason. There are very few things that you can’t make with one. In fact, people love to utter the old saw that the lathe is the only machine ...

Unlock the full potential of your workshop with this amazing 4-in-1 homemade drill press! This multifunctional tool combines ...

Two manual lathes were no longer efficient for producing form ties at Dayton Richmond Concrete Accessories of Dayton, Ohio. Form ties, one of the company's major products, are used at the base and/or ...

Before the invention, shops were either buying a full-featured CNC lathe (expensive!), farming out the CNC lathe work (with all of the associated costs and headaches), or, worse, compromising ...

Jordan Kube has created a unique open source glassblowing lathe, aptly named the Kube OpenLathe, which costs less than $2,000 in parts and provides ...

When the lathe work is done, the spindle stops, the tailstock pulls the honey dipper back off the headstock, and a pneumatic piston unceremoniously whacks the almost-finished part — it looks ...

Okuma has introduced its new V760EX vertical lathe, updating its V60R model. The new product has a larger work envelope and allows for an additional 110 mm in workpiece height ...

A deeper dive into another board in the ancient cnc lathe revealed further quirks. The aim was to work out how the safety interlock worked - which uses ...