Don't have a lathe you can work metal on? The next best thing is just watching it happen. Here's one cutting a spiral pattern into a workpiece, much like the texture on metal stairs used to increase ...

A new chapter in the workshop begins as one builder brings home a classic Swedish Blomqvist BSN 600 metal lathe. Once ...

Several spherical-shaped mold inserts with varying radii around 1 in. in 0.010-in. increments presented us with a machining challenge. A lathe wouldn't work, so we did the job on a CNC milling machine ...

If you’re planning to make a metalworking lathe out of a CNC milling machine, you probably don’t expect getting a position sensor to work to be your biggest challenge. Nevertheless, this was [Anthony ...

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 ...

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 a lathe that is accessible to all says it’s creator.

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 and 150 mm Okuma has ...