While we won’t argue the primacy of the lathe in the machine shop, this scratch-built, heavy-duty lathe gives the lie to the latter argument — almost. We’re used to seeing homebrew lathes ...

[Makercise] has built a nice oil fired foundry already so it’s off to the next book, Gingery 2, is the metal lathe. The Gingery books and, really, most DIY books from that era are: not well ...

This lathe was made by Colchester Machine tools, in Colchester, Essex in 1941 as a part of the War effort, many thousands of similar machines were made by all machine tool manufacturers during the ...

Montana State University students interested in crafting metals into machine parts will soon have access to a $2 million lathe that can cut spinning materials so precisely that its end products are ...