How To Make A Simple Wood Turning Lathe

Now we can make the left side of the lathe aka the lathe head.

How to make a simple wood turning lathe. I made a cam shaft thats around 32 long out of 1 14 4041 steel. In This Instructables I Am Going to Share a Brilliant Idea About How to Make a Power DIY Mini Lathe. I started with making another pine board the same size as the lathes legs.

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Add Tip Ask Question Comment Download Step 2. To turn an old drill of yours into a wood lathe you will need wooden boards a bearing a few bolts and long sized nuts. Youll need to place your tool-bit onto the tool-rest turn the machine on and begin your woodturning.

Cut out 2 more 6 ½ x 3 34 boards of poplar witch will be used to extend each leg. You will also need a jigsaw to cut the boards in the desired shapes. In this video I show the techniques and tools needed to turn a simple wooden bowl.

After making the body of the lathe I moved onto fabricating the banjo and tool rest. Place the cutting edge of the tool on the rest keeping clear of the rotating work piece check your grip and slowly begin easing it toward the work piece. Tools and materials I proposeBandsa.

I used niangon wood for this project. That thing is beefy and it works great. Most woodturning projects on the lathe are started by using a roughing gouge to create the basic shape whether a spindle bowl bottle stopper or nearly any other woodturning project.