Make Your Own Wood Turning Lathe

Turn the lathe on a slow speed and file the ferrule round.

Make your own wood turning lathe. Well properly shaped and machinedthen add a nice wood handle and you have all the tools you need to turn just about. Mount the turning blank on the lathe. In your tail stock put the live center.

The main thing is to make sure your motor can spin with both a lot of speed and a lot of power. Use sandpaper to shine up the ferrule. You need to move this to the side when you are putting wood onto the lathe.

Building your own wood lathe is truly a simple matter. What does a broken 12 drill bit a cold chisel a 12 x 12 pc of steel from home depot a 12 pc of round bar from home depot and carbide cutting bits carbide inserts have in common. Finally you have your tail stock.

Welcome to the channel Roman Ursu Hack romanursuhack. Much of this wood lathe is built using scrap plywood and he even made wood gears for this project. But it also shows how you can make your own allowing you to tailor your wood-holders precisely to the work you want to do.

Once your lathe is up and running you can start wood turning immediately and begin making. Mine is a 10 pound 125 horsepower motor and it has never slowed down while I am turning something. Quite impractical to use belts pulleys and bearings when the concept is making a wood lathe in 30 minutes.

Be sure to cover up the motor and any speed control devices so the brass shavings dont ruin anything. Pick up your spindle blank and alight the awl hole with the point on the drive spur. So I thought I would make my own parting tool for woodturning.