How To Make Your Own Wood Turning Lathe

Mount the turning blank on the lathe.

How to make your own wood turning lathe. Finally you have your tail stock. In your tail stock put the live center. 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.

Nut Type Compression Tube Size 34 In Tube Outside Dia. You can buy your own wood lathe or build your own. You can get 30 minute epoxyyep just click on that link or check out your local big box store.

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. Both my father and I have used vacuum cleaner motors to build both metal and wood turning lathes. To begin with if your were searching for wood turning tools with carbide tips you might have a hard time finding them because these special tools are made with carbide inserts.

Make sure you clamp up the handles nice and tight wipe off any excess epoxy that oozes out from the handles being squeezed together. I think I used a 30 minute epoxy to glue the handles together. Pick up your spindle blank and alight the awl hole with the point on the drive spur.

Mine is a 10 pound 125 horsepower motor and it has never slowed down while I am turning something. If playback doesnt begin shortly try restarting your device. Its easier to clean it up now that after it gets hard.

Building your own wood lathe is truly a simple matter. There are not a lot of parts needed to make a nice Wood Lathe Tool. Fixtures and Chucks for Woodturning clearly explains how to get the most from commercial chucks centers and faceplates.