Tool and Die Makers

One advantage of a lathe machine is that it can perform very detailed and intricate designs. One disadvantage of a lathe machine is that these machines are more expensive than other types of machines used to produce this type of work.

Woodworking lathes can be purchased from various retailers both instore and online. They are available at Woodcraft, Busy Bee Tools, and can also be found at Amazon or eBay. Reviews of different lathes can be viewed at Overstock.

I use a lathe to machine a new shaft from steel.

Open the chuck all the way and look down inside it, you'll probably see a screw you'll need to remove.
If it's an older model, and you don't see a screw, it's probably got a tapered shaft.
You can use the sane sort of a fork you use to remove a ball joint to remove the chuck.

All lathes could be considered "centre lathes." You turn "between centers." There's also a tool called a "machining center," but those are for computerized milling, normally of metal.

the size of a lathe can be described by either of the following ways.

1.DISTANCE BETWEEN THE TWO DEAD CENTERS.

2.SWING RADIUS. IT'S THE DISTANCE MEASURED FROM THE SADDLE/CARRIAGE TO THE AXIS OF THE SPINDLE.

For a Wood Lathe there are several, with many variations with-in each tool, here are some:

Superflute Bowl Gouge (many sizes)

Spindle Gouge (many sizes)

Detail Gouge (many sizes)

Shallow Gouge

Roughing Gouge (many sizes)

Skew Chisels (many sizes)

Parting Tools (many sizes & shapes)

Bedan Tools (many sizes)

Scrapers: Round Sided, Diamond Sided, Square End, Round Nose, Dovetail, Shear,etc..

Multi-Tip Ring Tools

And many variations and designs of the Hollowing Tools

Also you have specialty tools like: Chatter Tools, Springett Chinese Ball Tools, Thread Cutting Tools, Texturing Tools, etc.

I might have missed some but these I've mentioned will do most anything you want on a Wood Lathe.

You can make anything cylindrical in shape on a lathe providing it can be held safely in the chuck. It can be used to cut diameters, bores, faces and create tapers. With the use of a tail stock it can also be used to drill perfectly centred holes with minimal effort. Also on higher quality lathes diameters can be turned in or out of concentricity as the operator wishes with the use of a four jawed chuck. There is also no limit to what metal you can cut either as the spindle speed and feed can be altered to suit the material you are cutting from plastics to hard alloys. Examples of simple projects are hammers, plum-bobs , ashtrays and even fisherman's priests to name but a few.

This is a system that guide the body of a lathe. And for Exfoliaion pieces of it as a preservative. And also for under drill holes in it.

facing is the proccess of reducing length of the work piece. it is done using cross slide. the tool is fed using the carriage.

Your hair should be closed. The closing time Tuesday to wrench off the workpiece. Use safety glasses. Wear appropriate work clothes. Students have to work.

There are many different brands of tool benches on the market. Some of the companies that produce quality tool benches are Snap-On, Craftsman and Global Industrial.

A metal lathe is used to "turn" (cut) shapes of external and/or internal circular cross-section: cylinders, discs, cones (tapers), spheres (with a special attachment). It can also cut screw-threads to high accuracy; and its range of work can be increased by various extra attachments.

The metal-cutting lathe is the fundamental machine-tool upon which all others depend, and the basic principle of turning - rotating the work-piece against the cutting-tool - has been traced to the Ancient Egyptians perhaps 4000 years ago, for wood-working.

well there is the one with a dick on his head, then there is one called the centre lathe then theres the, actually why am i telling you. work it out yourself you little prick.

Jacques de Vaucanson built the first all-metal lathe around 1751, according to Book Rags. Henry Maudslay, who is considered the "father of the industrial lathe," invented the first screw-cutting engine lathe in 1797.

A lathe is an in the first instance an engineering machine used for turning metals into specific shapes and diameters, adding threads for screw, creating threads for bolts, boring .

Woodlates (their predecessor) turning bowls , cutting threats on wood, convex and concave shapes

Unfortunately fewer and fewer tools are made in US now. The few that come to mind are GearWrench, some Crescent and a couple more.