It should be noted that of all the mini tools you can get at Harbor Freight, the 10- and 12-inch benchtop metal lathes are among the most similar to their industrial big brothers. A wide variety ...

For those who aren’t familiar, the Gingery series of books describe how to build an entire machine shop’s worth of bench top tools using ... is the metal lathe. The Gingery books and, really ...

Where most homebrew lathes tend to be the bench top variety and feature cast aluminum parts, [Jornt] went with steel for his build, and a lot of it. The base and bed of the machine are welded from ...