How To Make Your Own Wood Turning Lathe

You need to move this to the side when you are putting wood onto the lathe.

How to make your own wood turning lathe. You can get 30 minute epoxyyep just click on that link or check out your local big box store. How to Make Lathe Chuck. Finally you have your tail stock.

The main thing is to make sure your motor can spin with both a lot of speed and a lot of power. Both my father and I have used vacuum cleaner motors to build both metal and wood turning lathes. Mount the turning blank on the lathe.

Parts List for Tool. Considering that electric motors commonly come at 2400 or 2800 RPM as well as the cheaper low speed ones finding the right motor is part of the fun of creation. Make sure you clamp up the handles nice and tight wipe off any excess epoxy that oozes out from the handles being squeezed together.

Old-school faceplate turning often involves gluing your turning stock here a piece of cherry to a sacrifical piece of wood in the photo a piece of pine that is in turn screwed to the faceplate. 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. You can buy your own wood lathe or build your own.

You lathe should look like this. For a wood lathe a 12 horsepower motor should be enough. Pick up your spindle blank and alight the awl hole with the point on the drive spur.

Videos you watch may be added to the TVs watch history and. Its easier to clean it up now that after it gets hard. Usually a piece of 12 steel round or square notched out in the end to accept a small square round or triangular carbide cutter that is screwed onto the steel shaft and the far side of the shaft has a long wood handle.