Shop built - wooden lathe

Always love your projects and videos, Ryan. This was an especially good/cool one. Looking forward to the next one!

-- Joe | Spartanburg, SC | "To give anything less than your best is to sacrafice the gift." - Steve Prefontaine

Great looking wooden wood lathe, Nice craftsmanship and well thought out. It certainly will do the job, Well done..

-- Brian - Hazelton, British Columbia

Pretty cool project. .. will be checking out the video soon!

This is awesome maschine, very sturdy. I had several attempts to make my own lathe – it served but very unbalanced and I dismantled him and sell parts.

-- Ivan, Croatia, Wooddicted

It looks like a very nice build and is certainly an interesting project.

helluvawreck aka Charles
http://woodworkingexpo.wordpress.com

-- helluvawreck aka Charles, http://woodworkingexpo.wordpress.com

Sweet. Looks like it’ll do the job fine, gave fun with this lathe.

-- "I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The point is to bring them the real facts." - Abraham Lincoln

Super build ,well done.

Very nice lathe!

It reminds me of the large all wood lathe I saw in the Aeronautics lab when I was a student at Georgia Tech. It was about a 36 ” swing and had a large variable speed DC electric motor as a headstock. The bed was two long parallel wood beams. I never found out what it was intended for. Truthfully, wood lathes are very simple machines and there is no reason why a well made wooden lathe shouldn’t work just as well as a cast iron one. It would be nice if the headstock spindle and the tailstock could take Morse taper tooling, but you can’t have everything and keep it simple.

Planeman

-- Always remember: It is a mathematical certainty that half the people in this country are below average in intelligence!

One of the best wood lathes was made by Conover. It uses twin wood beams for the bed; the rest being cast iron; too bad they went out of business in 2002. Congratulations on your project; very nice.

very cool! well done.

-- Dan, Naperville IL, I.G.N.

Very nice job. What size are your head-stock and tail-stock shafts/rods? You could always screw an adapter on them and use a short Morse taper center, chuck, whatever.

-- Dennis, WV

Nicely done.