40 Build A Wood Lathe From Scratch Update

You can buy your own wood lathe or build your own.

Build a wood lathe from scratch. As jim noted this really just looks like an ad for your youtube video which isn t appropriate in my opinion. So instead i decided to make one. Finally time for paint. Building this lathe from scratch was a challenge.

A hand drill provides the motor and the faceplate is simply a square of steel. Building a clock from scratch is complicated and mesmerizing. Building a lathe from scratch i already have a lathe and i almost never use it but i have been asked about building a lathe so many times i figured i should give it a shot. It was such a good feeling seeing the lathe loaded into the truck ready to come home.

Here s how i made my first wood lathe from scratch at very little cost. B you make molds in sand with a few other ingredients. I m cutting this out of some wood that came from some good quality palettes. How to build a simple wood lathe.

I stumbled upon a youtube video by matth. I m not a mechanical engineer so the build was based on gut feeling and materials i had available. I used a chisel as a crude lathe cutting tool. Melt metal easier than it seems and darn good.

I wanted a lathe because of all the stuff you can make with it and how fun they looked i knew i could get one for about 250 excluding tools but that was beyond my budget. Although i know other people have built lathes themselves after an enormous amount of looking on google i saw most homemade lathes involve casting and milling as well as using off the shelf components like chucks and tapers. Longer pieces of hardwood will form the bed of the lathe. A you make patterns of the parts out of easy to work stuff like wood pine is good plywood hardboard the dark brown stuff that lots of pegboard and 1950s elementary school fixtures are made of etc.

At long last it s time for paint. Watch this guy build an entire hut from scratch. After a long hiatus the forum is back. Join and chat in the forum.