Watch the art of woodcarving come to life as expert carpenters craft a unique wooden vase design! Using a lathe and their creative skills, they transform raw wood into a beautiful piece of art. Every ...

Considered a specialty power tool, a wood lathe is typically found in a woodturner’s or a furniture-maker’s shop. It’s used to create cylindrical wooden items that are symmetrical around a ...

We’ve seen quite a few scratch built lathes here at Hackaday, but none quite like the handcrafted pole lathe put together by [Jon Townsend] and his band of Merry Men as part of their effort to ...

The precision lathe with the hooks ... A bow string around a round piece of wood is used to bootstrap a more permanent retention element and bushing for the bow string as it is drawn over the ...

Chances are, he’s in his happy place: his woodworking shop.

Lathes are machines for turning and forming materials. This is usually done by removing material to form a shape, or drilling and cutting to create threads. The lathe is driven by a motor that ...